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There are many sites and blogs that have lists of blog ideas or ideas on how to look for blog ideas. Some are quite original. I will begin posting links and a short description of each worthy site/blog that I find.
To help you find my posts on Blog Idea Lists, the subject line of each post will be "Blog Idea Lists: xxxxx. The "xxxxx" will be replaced with the subject of that particular post. Just search for "Blog Idea Lists" and you'll find my posts.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Improve your Blog or Site Structure and Links
How many blog posts, articles, pages, videos, etc. do you have on your blog or web site? Are they easy to find? Do visitors have to dig through levels of pages or blog archives to find what they need? Can you provide links to those hidden nuggets of wisdom?
They say that the search engines will rarely index any site pages that are below the third level. For instance, on the site ToMakeASite.com, their home page is the first level. On that home page, they have a link bar to their major sections. One of those major sections is Optimize. On the Optimize page, they have another row of links for pages under Optimize. One of those pages is Keywords.
The Index or home page is the first level. Optimize is the second level. Keywords is the third level. The Keywords page has links to all the pages above it, and to all the pages on its same level. But it is the third level, and there aren't any pages below it. This ensures that Google and the other search engines will find all of the pages in the site.
If you must have pages below the third level, put links to them on your home page, or at least on a second level page. This will help the search engines find those pages. It is not that search engines have anything against pages below the third level. It is just that they do not normally search any deeper when they crawl or index your site. If they find the link when they index an upper page, they will visit that page, even if it is on the fourth, fifth, sixth level.
With blogs, you can link to those hidden pages in your archives, and you will get more traffic to them. For the most part, it should be fairly easy to set up a link bar for your popular blog posts.
They say that the search engines will rarely index any site pages that are below the third level. For instance, on the site ToMakeASite.com, their home page is the first level. On that home page, they have a link bar to their major sections. One of those major sections is Optimize. On the Optimize page, they have another row of links for pages under Optimize. One of those pages is Keywords.
The Index or home page is the first level. Optimize is the second level. Keywords is the third level. The Keywords page has links to all the pages above it, and to all the pages on its same level. But it is the third level, and there aren't any pages below it. This ensures that Google and the other search engines will find all of the pages in the site.
If you must have pages below the third level, put links to them on your home page, or at least on a second level page. This will help the search engines find those pages. It is not that search engines have anything against pages below the third level. It is just that they do not normally search any deeper when they crawl or index your site. If they find the link when they index an upper page, they will visit that page, even if it is on the fourth, fifth, sixth level.
With blogs, you can link to those hidden pages in your archives, and you will get more traffic to them. For the most part, it should be fairly easy to set up a link bar for your popular blog posts.
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