I am making a 1000 - 5000 page + website. These will be content/article pages.... but linking would be hard, trying to make all the pages easily reachable for my visitors, so i have tried a diagram (see link below) of how i could link all of my pages. Please view it, and tell me if it is a good way to link my hundres of pages Niche - vegitables... subcategories of my articles = tomatoes, apples, pears etc.. VIEW THE DIAGRAM, WHICH IS ON THE LINK... AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THING... BE HONEST TOO Here's the link- check it... -> http://www.claim-free-money.com/internallinking.htm
This is perfect. Try to also interlink relevant articles. For example in the tomato juice article you could link to the apple juice article.
I think you are doing in right way. but remember dont go after 3rd level, I mean home page.-> cat-----level one Cat.-> sub Cat ------ level two sub cat.-> inner sub cat.--level three Thants all dont add more level
You may have the categories on homepage itself. Reduce the number of clicks to reach an article page. That would be helpful to the users and also from SEO point of view. Make sure that the maximum articles get indexed by google. Fewer clicks from homepage means more important page, and so better chance of a higher pR and getting indexed. You may consider even listing top few articles on subcategory listing page itself.
The thing is, my HOME page is a sales letter, so i cant have that having article links across it. If it wasn't a sales page, i would have ussed that as the category directory for my site.. Any advice/tips how to get around this?
Thanks. Question.... alemcherry, dam_sid, mad4... Are you guys SE experts? or link structure experts? Just curious ...
In my experience it has been beneficial to have the top level categories linked from the home. On my site everything is reachable within 2 clicks - homepage to category, category to article. Also bear in mind that having links to the important categories from every page will help you alot.