Changing Structure of site - effect from GG; and link redundancy

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by northpointaiki, Dec 21, 2005.

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    Hello -

    My site is just starting to see some action from GG (weirder searches, but still, a start - now, if people would just click!).

    I would like to clean up the link architecture. As it is now, when I created the site, I envisioned three basic areas of articles for each of my outdoors categories - generally, "tips," to do with techniques, "trips," for destinations within that category, and "tales," for stories related to the category.

    What this meant that for many things - bass fishing technique, for example, one would have to go fishing -- fishing tips -- fishing techniques -- bass fishing techniques. Now, I just want to ensure that the articles are as close to the surface as possible. I envision on the index page, a link list of 5 of the newest articles, across whatever categories they come from; and, on each category page (i.e., hunting gear), 5 of the latest articles in that category; with a centralized articles page. Eventually, as my site grows, I will create separate article pages for each topic, but, still, the links will generally be only one or two deep.

    The other thing I did was create pages I later intended on filling, e.g., "outdoor gear reviews." I know better next time, but, nevertheless, these pages have been crawled and they will show essentially an empty nest. I would like to delete these pages, delete the links referring to them, and just keep adding articles and adding them to the above three places I mentioned - new articles area, limited to 5, on the index page; new articles in each of my main category/sales pages; and on the article pages.

    2 questions: (1) Will GG hate me for getting rid of the pages it has crawled, in some instances, wholly changing the linkage structure on what I am deeming my most important pages (my products or sales pages); and (2) is there a problem with link redundancy within one's domain - i.e., at least three links to every newly created article (page), typically, sometimes, more. If it is a problem, will altering the anchor text have an impact?

    Thanks.

    Paul
     
    northpointaiki, Dec 21, 2005 IP
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