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PERFORMANCE-BASED WEBSITE ARCHITECTUREHow to Construct a Website Search Engines (and People) Love
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Indexed Pages
Rankings
Visitors
Sales
Where poor site architecture leaves you…
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CrawlabilityImproved
Navigation
ImprovedRelevance
Increased Conversions
SEO-Friendly Website
What you gain…
Don’t Make Me THINK, Dammit!
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Duplicate content can plague you like a virus
Dealing with duplicatecontent issues
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Duplication slows spidering and indexing
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Duplication splits link juice
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Fixing duplication corrals link juice
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Link & Navigation Structure
Document & Page Structure
URL & Site Structure
How do you build a search (and people) friendly website?
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URL & SITE STRUCTURE
b-e-a-utiful.com PerfectBeauty.blogspot.com HowToImproveYourImage.com
TotalBeauty.com PerfectBeauty.com BeautyIsBeautiful.com
Get your own
Keep it short
Make it memorable
Use keywordsif possible
URL &
SITE STRUCTU
REChoosing your domain name
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com"/>
URL &
SITE STRUCTU
REDesignate canonical URLs
www.example.com
example.com/
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp
Keep it Short
Use Keywordssite.com/sports/equipment/ baseball
site.com/category/page-name.php
URL &
SITE STRUCTU
REMake URLs search engine friendly
URL &
SITE STRUCTU
REBlock spiders from incorrect URLs
> http:// URLs> Product Pages> Information Details> Canonical URLs
x https:// URLsx Shopping Cartx Profile Pagesx Duplicate Content
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REEliminate nav path duplication
SportsGolf
Books
BooksSports
Golf
Exciting Moments in
Golf
ByU.R. Lame
Exciting Moments in
Golf
ByU.R. Lame
yoursite.com/how_not_to_write_urlsyoursite.com/how not to write urlsYoursite.com/how-to-write-urls-correctly
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REEffective URL construction
URL &
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RECreate a custom 404 error page
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Home
This directory structure is too flat
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Home
This directory structure is too tall
Home
Keyword Keyword Keyword
This directory structure is just right U
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LINK & NAVIGATION STRUCTURE
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Link to Primary Site
Sections
Link to Most Important
Pages
Effective navigation is key
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REUse breadcrumbs effectively
Keyword Rich
Visual Indicators
Easy Navigation
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REUse descriptive anchor text
LINKTHIS
NOTTHAT
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password protected areas Selection boxes
Don’t block great content
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RELink to related content
Unspiderable: javascript:plnav(’HO9264l’,’pl’,’image’)
Semi-spiderable: javascript.window.open(‘http://www.yoursite.com/page.html’,’newWindow’)
Spiderable: http://www.yoursite.com/page.html
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REUse only search engine friendly links
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REBlock engines from shopping pages
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Products Shopping cart
Checkout
Avoid secure page duplication
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RECheck for broken links regularly
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RERedirect broken URLs properly
Link from page A
Points to old page
B
Redirects to new page B
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DOCUMENT & PAGE STRUCTURE
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Create fan-freaking-tastic content!
Clearly written
Accurate
Keyword driven
Text, not images
Organize your contentD
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Purpose Beginning Middle
EndExposes Need
Provides Benefits
Call to Action Personas Personalities
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Link to related content
<Title>Beauty Tips, Cosmetics, and Skin Care Tutorials</Title>
Influences Rankings
Provides Label for Browser
Drives Initial Click
*65 Character Limit
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Keyword rich title tags
Description is valuable.
Not so muchNot needed on every page
Compelling
Substantially unique
20-40 word page summary
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Compelling meta description tags
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Commas?
Spaces?
Length?
Phrases?
All about the meta keyword tag
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Proper HEADING tag hierarchy
<h1>One H1 per page.</h1>
<h2>Use outline format.</h2><h3>Keep content organized</h3>
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Streamlined code: No bloat!
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• HTML Tables
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• On-Page Styles
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• On-Page Javascript
Ensure multi-browser accessibilityD
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Build mobile compatible sites
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CONCLUSION
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