Hi everyone, Today i have a question about website structuring. I would like to know how Google sees a sites structure, do they count per click from link to link to see how many pages they had to go through to get to your content or is it all URL based? Let me explain a bit more: let say i have a "home","category" and "product" page. the "category" page is structured as follows: Page1: food & drink construction then if you click on food & drink you get page2: pubs clubs after you click on pubs you will get all the pubs. now what i want to know is: Does Google see the structure as, "home" example.com "cateogry" example.com/category "cateogry" example.com/category "product" example.com/category/product does Google go...ok that was 3 click to get to the "product" page so that is a tree deep structure or do they look at the URL and say you are two deep because you have got /category/product If anyone has a idea on how this works please let me know, thanks for reading!!! :smile:
Google has no problem with subcategory or sub page if it is well structured. Google bot crawl each page independently so any problem with subpages but make sure that you have not categorized inappropriate way. for example Page1: food & drink after clicking a subpage will appear mobile, accessories This is not appropriate It is better practice to avoid creating more category or subpage.
@johnhalsell, Friday at 4:02 AM: I am not aware that Google cares about mislabeled links nor whether the url token matches the [what?] in the target page; title? h1? some bit of text? It's possible they do, Google is forever changing their methods to better represent the web and to keep a step on those who are gaming the system. I doubt, though, that it has a significant effect on search results; Google indexes the content. @LOOM, Thursday at 2:18 PM: Nor will the search engine give a rat's patootie how many clicks it took to get there. After all, the page might be found through a cross link from a deeply linked page elsewhere on your site; or maybe from a link on another site. A well organized site will aid you in maintaining the site by allowing for a sane system of linkages. I've actually seen sites that contained pages that had no links to them. They weren't always in non-hierarchic, flat file systems, but that was the case in the great majority of instances. How deep do you nest? I believe it is important for the web developer to study library science. Library science isn't about dusty old books in the back stacks, it's about how human beings organize and retrieve information. The web site is, in effect, a library full of information just waiting to be used. Organize your site to abet the visitor in his search for that information. Worry about your visitor, and you'll get good grades from Google. Do create a zipped, xml sitemap. Google has instructions on how to do it. If you use a publishing tool such as Nikola, it will create/modify the sitemap automagically. N.B. You can spider your own site, just as Google does, with a mature tool called wget. See the wget FAQ for info on installing wget in Windows or OSX. Linux users already have it or can install from their repository. Using wget is an excellent tool for finding broken links in your site. cheers, gary