Chapter 5

Perfecting Navigation and Linking Techniques

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Formulating a category structure

Bullet Building landing pages for silos

Bullet Absolute versus relative linking

Bullet Types of navigation

Bullet Tools to ensure that your navigation is search engine friendly

Bullet 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 ...

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