What is the best website structure that is ideal for search engine optimization?<\/p>\n
To answer this question, let’s look at the 2 types of website structures.<\/p>\n
1) Flat website structure<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n In a flat structure, all the files are in the root folder.<\/p>\n For example,<\/p>\n yourwebsite.com\/article1.htm 2) Directory website structure<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n In a directory structure, the files are categorized into different folders\/directory.<\/p>\n For example,<\/p>\n yourwebsite.com\/cause\/article1.htm where article 1 and 2 are related to the cause of the illness (say we’re building a website about headache), article 3 and 4 are related to the treatment methods and article 5 and 6 are related to the prevention measures.<\/p>\n The question is, which website structure is better? Is it the flat website structure? Or the directory website structure?<\/p>\n Some SEO gurus say that directory structure is better. But from experience, I don’t see much difference.<\/p>\n On the contrary, I realize that flat website structure seems to be indexed faster by the search engines.<\/p>\n Another Aspect Of Website Structure<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n There is another aspect of website structure that is worth discussing. It is the way you link your articles.<\/p>\n If you have 5 articles on headache treatment, you should link all the 5 articles together. This will increase the relevancy of the webpage and thus improve its search engine ranking.<\/p>\n But good internal linking can be practised regardless of which website structure you use.<\/p>\n My Preferred Website Structure<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n I’ve built content websites<\/a> using both flat and directory site structure. Personally, I prefer to use a flat website structure.<\/p>\n Reason? There are less potential problems.<\/p>\n For example,<\/p>\n 1) I don’t have to worry about whether to use \/, .\/ or ..\/ when doing internal linking.<\/p>\n 2) When promoting the website, I don’t have to worry that I may make a mistake in the url, since in a flat structure, all the urls have the same format of website.com\/articleXX.htm.<\/p>\n My Advice On Website Structure<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n In conclusion, my advice is to use a flat website structure and link related articles together. This combination should be enough for search engine optimization. After all, website structure is just a small part in the entire SEO puzzle. What’s more important is backlinks<\/a> and keyword analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the best website structure that is ideal for search engine optimization? To answer this question, let’s look at the 2 types of website structures. 1) Flat website structure In a flat structure, all the files are in the root folder. For example, yourwebsite.com\/article1.htm yourwebsite.com\/article2.htm yourwebsite.com\/article3.htm yourwebsite.com\/article4.htm yourwebsite.com\/article5.htm yourwebsite.com\/article6.htm 2) Directory website structure In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,113],"tags":[114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadsleap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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