Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I'm working on a new website with lots of different sections. It's going to have a social networking section, a forum, photo galleries, directory and a content section (news, blogs, articles).
The main focus of the website is a photos/pictures in a certain niche. Now, since I know it will be very difficult to make the photo gallery pages (database driven) rank high, I've decided to create a "keyword page" for each category of pictures, with an article talking about that category. There will be about 30 of these pages to start with, with more added over time.
My question is, how do I make sure these pages get the most possible page rank distributed to them? I don't feel like putting a sitewide link to every single keyword page in the footer. That would look spammy and ugly.
I don't want to link to all these pages from the home page either, since that will lessen the value of the links to other parts of the site + the pages aren't important enough from the visitor's point of view.
So how do I organize the links to make sure they get good page rank?
I appreciate your feedback!
I don't want to link to all these pages from the home page either, since that will lessen the value of the links to other parts of the site
Next best, I think, would be to create one index page for all your keyword category pages -- a mini sitemap just for the photo categories if you will -- and then link to that page just once from the Home Page. Also link back to that mini-sitemap page from those category pages, too, to keep the PR circulating.
Just make sure that all links are followed: i.e. if you use rewrite and have G banned from dynamic linkss, make sure that keywords are written too and that PR passes. Maybe make it so on the user pages it shows what they added or what they looked so everything is eventually seen. You could also do a "Random Picture" and post it sitewide...with enough pages all will be linked.
