What is the best link tree that I must used in my site.

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What is the best link tree that I must used in my site.

WebWare

7:41 pm on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

The google bot and other robots does not deep crawling in my site, some day I heared that link tree specify the good crawling for a site, how can I inhance my link tree.
Thanks

tedster

8:26 pm on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

This is a very good question - and I;m sure many people have their idea for you. Here's what I've been succesful with:

1. Keep the link structure as shallow as possible. Try for 2, or on a big site 3, clicks from the Home page to any other page.

2. Try not to nest directories very deep -- even if the information architecture looks like it goes many levels deep, these levels can all be in a top directory. Not nesting directories keeps your URLs shorter.

3. All pages should have at least 1 inbound link that is "straight text" HTML, not an image, not javascript, not cgi, no query strings etc.

4. Cross link your pages well. Try for 2 or three clicks from any page to any other page.

5 Have a site map, but if it gets to be more than 100 links on a page, break it into 2 pages, then 3.

These are ideals for me, and I don't always follow them all. But the closer I come, the more throughly the site is crawled.

dragonlady7

8:48 pm on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

A good question and a good answer!

I wish I'd known that when I first designed my site.
But, thanks to a comprehensive sitemap, I can get to any other page from any starting point in between one and at the most three clicks. So I feel okay about it. My URL started off short, at least. :-D

WebWare

9:24 pm on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Actually I owned a directory site, the home page contain deferent links that lead to each directory,each of these directory contain a list of items wich can not be hold in one page thus it have a links of pages number for the rest of the other item.
this is the architecture of the link tree in my site. As I think its good but I do not know Why robots did not like it.

tedster

9:37 pm on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

I moved this conversation from HTML and Browsers over here to the Search Engine Promotion forum. It seems that this topic can range much more widely than code and user agent issues and this would be a better place to hold the conversation.