How To Structure Your Site To Please Search Engine Spiders

This code is most often javascripts. You can learn how to open javascripts
from an external file. That method allows you to have less code in your html
code while still performing all javascripts you want.

Do not join a bunch of traffic counters since all of them give you a piece
of script to put on your website. Use one only is enough, or else it gets messed
up with too much code.

There are also tools that allow you to clean your html code, usually fix errors
in the code itself. Meta tags must also be unique for each webpage. That is
more organized and makes more sense that each page has its own title, description
and keywords.

One thing you should not do is create several folders, which are almost all
identical. For example put all your articles in one folder called Articles.
Put all your images in only one folder called Images. Keep your website files
and folders organized not only it is easier for you but also for spiders. They
quickly scan throughout your webpages. It is much easier for them. Pages will
get indexed faster and all of them will be included in the index.

So here is some of the common mistakes.

Linking to your linkspage from your homepage like Links 1, Links 2, Links
3 and so forth.

You only need one linkspage, which has categories and subcategories. Then
link to that one page from your homepage.

Linking to several articles from your homepage. Again you just create on page
and put links to all your articles on it. Then link to that one page called
Articles or whatever only from your homepage, or from your sitemap. You do
not need to link to every page from your homepage, you can put them on your
sitemap. Spiders will find them still when they visit your sitemap.

Too many menus on your website is another mistake. Two is enough. One for
visitors giving them the most important pages like support, sitemap or maybe
products page, download page and so forth. The other menu lists other less
important pages like legal information or articles page or a link to your blog.

All pages will get indexed, if your website is properly organized. Spiders
visit a webpage and also visit each of the links on that webpage. So they will
visit your entire website by following links. If you create a webpage and do
not link to it from anywhere then obviously it will not be seen.

Now Google also have the google webmasters tools, and there are software that
allows you to create a google sitemap. You put that special sitemap to google
webmasters tools. It helps your webpages to get indexed faster. It also monitors
which webpages return the 404 page not found or other erros.

You should make sure your website has no 404 error pages. All links should
be working well, if not simple fix so called broken links that return error
messages.

You can also submit a similar sitemap to Yahoo. There are software once again
that will create this special sitemap. When we refer to spiders, we refer to
all search engine spiders because every search engine has its own spider.

You should be friendly with these software because ultimately they will determine
your rankings. It is the spiders that crawl your site and check how many backlinks
you have and so forth.

by Karl Sultana