Ecommerce | Website Design
Extending Folders to Levels - Tutorial Page
Making a correctly coded web site design is very important,
however, there is an equally important design factor that you may
not be aware of... levels.
! Before reading this
page, make sure your have read the previous
tutorial on folders shown here. first.
This tutorial is critical to achieving a Top 10 Website
Spend more time on the folder associations and levels than
any other section of your web page design or site layout. It is
very important to create a website that is both easy to manage,
expandable and perfect for SEO reasons.
Tutorials: Levels of your site.
Levels are the depth of pages, pictures, scripts and operating
functions of your site. Each page that is displayed in the browser
can be deliberately controlled by you to increase your sites
effectiveness, speed and user friendly status. Also, you can control
content with carefully planned folder levels.
Example:
This
site has 4 levels. The main root directory contains 68 html pages
and only 3 images. By doing this, all major pages (as considered by
us) are instantly retrievable and indexed by the engines, bots,
spiders or log files. Images are not stopping the bots from indexing
the entire list quickly. Our statistic pages can easily access those
pages and the entire site operates smoothly with no error 404
messages etc.
The second level contains important keyword named folders such as
'design'. Inside this folder is a sub folder named 'menu'. This menu
folder has 24 individual html pages that are drawn into the main
pages that act as the hyperlinks you can see on the right side of
this page.
The 'design' folder contains more html pages with keyword file
names.
Inside the 'design' folder, is another sub folder named 'locations'
which contains html pages specific to the keyword location e.g.
Hosting Web Site Design
Inside the sub folder named 'locations' is another folder named
'locatpics', this folder contains the imagery for the 'locations'
folder.
Can you tell what is happening?
Lets look at the sub folder
'locations' above right and it's under level folder 'locatpics'.
While the 'locations' folder is lower than the /root/design
directory, it's associated picture files are only one directory away
from the pages that they appear in. This makes for faster browsing,
search ability and indexing. None of the pictures listed inside
'locatpics' are more than one folder away from the page in which
they appear. This will eliminate any server side issues of folder
retrieval if your website hosting company is under bandwidth
pressure at any particular time and will definitely increase your
web page indexing.
Tips:
When creating folders, use lowercase only, if you must
separate a folder name into words, never use a space, always use a -
e.g. my-folder
previous article
The Root Directory Should Look Like
This
Use up to 2 levels for pages you want indexed, 3-4 for
subsidiary folders that support your pages.
Design your web site with friendly category folders, picture folders and
page locations.
Use up to 4 levels to maximise how your site is indexed.
Note: Hold your mouse over the image above to see how your
correctly written Alt Text should appear. Notice How Each Word Is
Capitalised?
Summary
With exception to your main logo images (3 or 4), don't place
imagery inside a folder that you can dedicate to html or file pages.
Create a second level folder only one (1) depth away and put all
your pictures, icons, video's etc inside that folder that are
relevant to those html pages.
It is important that you avoid making unnecessary folders in your
main root for pages. Keep your folder structures as shallow as
possible.
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Using
folder structure to improve how a robot spiders your web design