Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

Perfecting Navigation and Linking Techniques

In This Chapter

• Formulating a category structure
• Building landing pages for silos
• Absolute versus relative linking
• Types of navigation
• Tools to ensure that your navigation is search engine friendly
• Naming links

In this chapter, we talk about how to physically structure your site in the most efficient way possible with siloing. Siloing is the process of categorizing your web pages into subject themes in order to group related content. In this way, you present clear and straightforward subject relevancy that increases your site's perceived expertise to the search engines.

Search engines award keyword rankings to the site that proves that it is least “imperfect” for the relevancy of a subject or theme. That means that the more clearly on-topic a site is for a user’s search query, the more relevant it is, and the more likely it is to appear near the top of search results. Search engines try to dissect a site into distinct subjects that add up to an overall theme that represents a straightforward subject relevancy. If a search engine can clearly understand what you’re talking about, it’s going to consider you more of an expert on the subject and award you a higher rank than the other guy who’s diluted his theme and cluttered his page with junk that’s not relevant to his site. More often than not, a website is a disjointed array of unrelated information with no central theme, and it suffers in search engines for keyword rankings. ...