6. Website Crawl ability
Having seen how your website structure impacts user experience, another major factor to be considered is the ability of search engines to move within your entire content. Search engines are always crawling through your content to understand pages and subpages in a bid to deliver a good user experience to users.
We have discussed the issue of creating good internal linking. It should be done in an order of relevance and such that there is no point left outside the network.
7. Website Speed
Irrespective of how good your network or site structure is, a sluggish website kills it all. If your content is well linked together, your meta descriptions and images well optimized. But if the website is slow, it will still score zero when it comes to SEO.
Users won't spend time waiting for your website to load. They will move to your competitor's website.
Ensure that your technology is in other to guarantee speed. Also optimize your content, images and video to achieve the best speed that is possible.
In conclusion, the effect of website structure on SEO is not robot science. It is imported you start from the beginning and work towards a robust website. Create unique content and link them up properly.
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Yes Richard, Websites with lots of content use the Hierarchical model. The use it to form a tree-like structure for your website structure.
So doing content are created and appropriately linked, making website content easily accessible.
There are other forms of website structure like the sequential and the matrix model. But the most important thing for us is raising quality content and linking them in order of relevance via keywords.
Ayodeji
Are the links clickable links within a post or a menu structure setup?
Thank you
Richard
yes they are clickable links and many times within post. Links in your headers, footers also do contribute
Ayodeji
