How to Tell Crawlers Your Site Structure

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cosmocentral, Nov 4, 2007.

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    Admin: Not sure if this right category to post this, if not please remove.

    Most of the sites are designed to have home page and sub pages. How can you tell the crawlers your site structure. Sitemap could be an option. But most of the time its stuffed with all the links from the site, which really doesn't serve this purpose.

    As an example lets take a site for advertising. It has 5 main categories and each category have subcategories. How would you tell crawlers about this structure.
     
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    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    you just make the site search engine friendly with easy to follow navigation. crawler will crawl all the pages by itself anyways if the site is search engine friendly.
     
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    If you build a search engine friendly navigation structure, you don't need a site map at all. Just make sure you have crawlable links on your home page pointing to deeper parts of your site. Don't use flash or javascript for your navigation structure since spiders can't follow links inside those.

    It would also help to embed a few links here and there in your body texts of your web content. Using the right anchor texts in those links will help your SEO efforts.
     
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