Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Part-6

This is 6th part of a series of post on organic search engine optimization.I would advice you to go through the earlier part if you have not read them yet.In part-1 I gave a general idea on SEO and in part-2 and 3 I discussed about keyword research and internal linking of blog respectively.In part-4 and 5 I told you about different html tags and how to use them and site structure and architecture.


In this post ,I am going to tell you about navigation and sitemaps and what they can do to optimize your site.


Let us first start with sitemaps.




Sitemaps are very much important for search engines as they tell search engines about your pages and this helps in indexing your pages faster.


But the bad news here is most of the blogging platforms don't allow access to the root directory where your sitemap should be located.Does this mean that bloggers are not able to submit sitemaps in the search engines?Absolutely not.


In case you are not have access to your root directory then you can use your feed url as your sitemap.For example,for blogs hosted on blogger,like mine,the sitemap (feed url) is-
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml and
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml


You can use any of the two.

I would advice you to always submit our sitemap in important search engines like,google,yahoo and MSN.


Now let us quickly move on to naviation.
Navigation is not only met for human visitors but search engines also crawl through the links you have provided.While making your site make sure-


1)All your links are upto or less than 3 links deep.
It is said that , search engines don't crawl pages deeper than three links unless your site/blog is regarded as authority site by them.So, it is always advisable to make your all pages accessible within 3 links depth.


2)There are no broken links-Broken links are annoying to visitors as well as search spiders ,so, regularly check for broken links.
There are plenty of tools available on internet which can check broken links on your blog.


3)Make a links page and place all outgoing links there.


This ends my topic on sitemap and navigation of organic search engine optimization (SEO) series.With this post ,I have also completed the facors that affect on page optimization.In the next post,I have discussed about the off page optimization.Off paqge optimization is now considered more important than on page optimization and would highly recommend reading the next post of this series.



Next posts of this series are-

Organic search engine optimization (SEO)-


Part-7 ( Off-page optimization-link building) and

Part-8 (Anchor Text)






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