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I read that some of the webpages should be cross linked.
For example a page on fruit to the apples and oranges etc.
Q.1. So i was wondering, when **cross linking**, does it mean placing your links to only some pages that relate and not placing links on the webpages that don't relate?
For example:
A page on fruit would be linked to a page on apples.
-The link would be on the fruit page linking to the apple page.
-And the apple page would have a link back to the fruit page.
>>Correct?
Q.2. But if a page is *not* on this topic...say it is on "baskets", then this page would not have a link anywhere on this page to any of these types of pages?
Q.3.So in saying that, am i right in thinking that each webpage will have a different set of links? Some without links to other pages and some with links to relevant content?
**Could you please advice on the above questions?
>>How exactly would you place the link if needed and if not needed would you eliminate the link placement for a off topic page?
Thank you very much guys:)
I appreciate your help:)
frenzy77
Not every web page will have the same outbound-links if you decide only to link to on-topic content, well, that is if you have a certain amount of content, but you could always change that to whatever you want, really that's up to you and how you set the web site up.
There are many ways to arrange internal links: You can do a site-map that is linked to from every page, so that everyone can find everything easily. You can have navigation for all the main sections available on every page. You can have the linking method different for different sections, and let people search around on their own. Minimum is to make sure that every page that has a link coming in from the rest of the site has a link going out. But, the important thing is to do what you think is best for your users.
Something that you should also think of is how you move internal Google PageRank around. Your index/default page will usually get the most links to it, and it has the highest PR. It's not a good idea to optimize for one page, so you want hits coming in on lots of pages, on lots of search queries. You can boost your preferred pages by careful internal linking, originating with the index page. You might have pages that you don't care if traffic enters the site on, so you can give them less of the available PR via less linking from the index. The pages you do really want hits on, steer the PR there. That's one disadvantage of the site-wide navigation on every page, imho - it spreads all of the available PR throughout the entire site.
But still have some questions. I hope you don't mind answering.
Well,...
I was designing my site with the following setup.
>>CSS navigation on all pages.
Ex.
>>Home
>>articles
>>Resources
>>Order
>>Info
>>Contact us
>>Disclaimer
etc...
AND at the bottom of page i have the same links in text.
Like this: >Home >articles >resources >order >info >contact us >Disclaimer
ETC.....
Q.1. So, is it necessary to list all these links *again* on the bottom of *each*
page?
Q.2. Or should i *only* list the related links to the certain related pages?
>>This would be done to create the "theme" of the topics related.
*For example, if i had a page about fruit.
>>I would list the css navigation on every page and at the bottom of the page place *only* the link to the page such as "apples" and the page "oranges" links.
Q.3. Would this help for creating the related topic page linking to the "sub topic" related page?
Ex. fruit page
>css nav. (top) main topics
>text links (bottom) >>link to "apples" page and link to "oranges" page.
*Only these 2 links at bottom of this particular page.
>>**Stefan, I noticed that you on your site have a setup of a home page link and a topic related link on only a on topic page. Should i use a setup of this type for all my webpages? Would this work because i have several pages for my site?
Well guys, thank you for helping me out with this thread.
I appreciate all your helpful replies:)
*Please answer each question as i really want to clear this up.
Thanks again guys:)
frenzy77
I'll let others who have navigation better organised chip in on answering your questions, (your second method seems fine to me), but again, just look at it as a user would and make sure they can easily find what you think they would want to find.
