Deep Crawling a Mini Site Part II

September 28th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Google, SEO

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After correcting some “errors” in my mini-site architecture (see Deep Crawling a New Mini Site) I am happy to report posting links to all of the pages in the footer, got 90% of the site indexed in about a week.

So let’s clear up some of the confusion I created. For sites that are brand spankin’ new to relatively new (less than 1 year), or have less than 30 pages in total, go ahead and link everything to everything, using a combination of top, side and footer navigation. Once you’re “old”, and more importanlty have some trust (ie organic rankings and traffic) it’s time to start thinking about siloing.

Understanding what Google and the other search engines think about your architechture is key, that’s why I really reccomend the google sitemaps Google Webmaster Central ***SEE NOTE BELOW***. Modifying architecture is always dicey and it’s important to know if something goes wrong sooner than later.

***NOTE***
Do not under any circumstances type in webmastercentral.com NSFW!!!! Google what were ya’ thinkin’?

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4 Responses to “Deep Crawling a Mini Site Part II”

  1. greg Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 9:50 am

    webmastercentral.com - now those are some stats to sink your teeth into…

  2. Michael Gray Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 10:29 am

    heh, I was just reading the articles mind you …

  3. Stefan Juhl Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    Yeah, I’d also recommend webmastercentral(.com) - so much great content that can be used to expand your site architecture.

  4. Graydon Says:
    October 4th, 2006 at 3:49 am

    Now… you know that by saying “Do not under any circumstances…” would make people do it anyways.

    You should have thought about that and just linked to the page after getting some deal from them.

    Now… Do Not under any circumstance go to http://marlincreek.com or http://makoskitchen.com because if you do, you won’t see bo*bs.

    Now that I think about it.. you could probably have an entire site dedicated to “DON’T CLICK HERE UNLESS YOU WANT THE WORLD TO DESCEND INTO OBLIVION”… and probably get a really high click through rate. Mmmmh… I’m onto something here :)