So every web site page I have for a site is all in the public folder. This means it is always www.home.com/ webpage etc it is never www.home.com/ webpage/ more specific page Will this make it harder for seo and rankings if I do not have any level 3 or tier 3 pages? And is the solution just to add another folder in the public html dir and name it the name of the 2nd tier category? Then anything in that will be a T3? Peter
You should make folders inside your public_html dir. This is an seo method called "siloing" where you divide like-content into separate directories. Each directory should have some sort of theme where you group related pages together. Then you should create a main keyword rich landing page within each of those folders and then from that page link to the other related pages within that folder. You can read more at http://www.bruceclay.com/newsletter/0505/silo.html.
Yes this is exactly what I want to do. How deep can I go with silo's and still have good google spidering etc. I think I'd need something like this: www.home.com/main category/category/articles.html This would be a 4 tier structure. Most people only advise to go max of 3 tier, for ease of search engine spiders finding pages and serps etc.
I made another folder, and put a copy of a page in it to see if it works. This is the file url structure: www.site.com/newfolder/webpage.html that I then typed into the url bar but I got a 404 page not found.???
I don't think I would go T4. If you just use folders at the T2 level you can categorize your articles into folders that describe what the articles are about. Example: home.com/biking/where-to-buy-cheap-norco-bikes.html. But I'm sure you could also do home.com/articles/biking/where-to-buy-cheap-norco-bikes.html if you really wanted to. But then in the biking folder you would have your landing page which is keyword rich and links to the other articles, eg. "where to buy cheap norco bikes". Are you sure its not .htm or misspelled?
no, I the problem. folder I made was a two word phrase. I needed to add the - or join them together as you can have spaces in the url address.