Web Page Optimization Help Pages

Part of the MOPT series'

 

74Navigation around a website

 

 

 

 

Once a person enters your site, then what?

Navigation and links that are inviting is the most challenging thing to complete when you desire to reach a top 10 website listing.

You must design for More Online Page Time

If you optimize all the pages for search engines only, your efforts will be wasted. Many articles written here by quicksmart-design highlight the need to help create web pages that have longer online page reading / view times than other topic or associated sites. It is critical for getting a site to top 10.

Your only desire should be to give lots of great information WITH longer online page time. MOPT

You should aim to create a site with 150+ pages and that each page is totally accessible by the human audience.

 

Technique 1.  Within your paragraph text, hypertext link to other pages that are deep inside your site or may not be considered the highest priority in your left menu. An example of this is part of the section dedicated to using the language tags better is written in French. So, occasionally a page may have a text stating 'French Optimization Help Pages'. Always make those links a full URL address.
In this manner, a page or folder of pages can be accessed by real people.

 

Technique 2. Use a scrolling style menu. (not moving or flashing) rather a menu that lists previous pages and upcoming pages. We utilize this technique on the left. Hope you enjoy that as you move through any section of the web site the pages always offer a new page that you might not yet have seen.

 

Technique 3. Drop down menu with every page on your site listed. This is only useful when your site is less than 70 pages. Drop down menus do not guarantee access by humans, indeed many web site design articles highlight how people get lost very quickly with those systems AND if controlled by a script, the menu will not add to any page ranking system.
If you can use a drop down site with less than 70 pages, you can add the additional 9 links inside content and build better initial page rank or help the spiders / bots index the entire site.

Learn More Maximum links per page for optimization
Learn More Javascript and other scripted menu systems

 

Technique 4. Use Server Side Includes as menus. If you are creating a site with ASP or PHP technologies, a forum based technology or blog etc, use the benefits of multi text menus.
They work like this.

Each page calls another page and renders the html inside the page. So if your program uses a left.php or right.html file etc that is designed to be an include, copy the file and rename it to leftmen.php, leftmenmore.php etc. Keep the file name short to assist speed.

 

Technique 5. Use a 'breadcrumb' menu. A Breadcrumb menu is one that tells the audience the page that they are on, and the quickest path back to the home page.
It would look similar to this.
You are here  X Home > Articles 60-90 > Quick SEO > This page

Use a breadcrumb menu very wisely, if a person only ever returns to a set of 4 or 5 pages, your MOPT is wasted.


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Poor navigation is the killer of many great info sites.

If the human reader cannot navigate around at least 30 pages uninterrupted, your efforts to optimize a web site become very difficult.

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