URGENT - How to Present New Site Architecture to Development team for implementation
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Guys I am not technically savvy.
I just want to know how to present the website architecture I want to be implemented on my website... how do I present my suggestions to the development team.
For example.... Should I say.
Page Level 1 - HOME Page (URL)
Page Level 2 - About Us Page
Page Level 2 - Feedback Page
Page Level 2 - Our Services
Page Level 2 - Contact Us Page
Page Level 2 - Accounting jobs
Page Level 3 - Audting jobs
Page level 3 - Junior accouting jobs
Page Level 2 - Engineering jobs
Page level 3 - architecture jobs
Page level 3 - Motor engineering jobs
Page Level 2 - IT Jobs
Page level 3 - Hardware Jobs
Page level 4 - Job Post 1
Page level 4 - Job Post 2
Page level 4 - Job Post 3
Please guide me my fellow MOZZERS.... I really need an answer/guidance at the very earliest.
Iwill be truly obliged
Regards,
Talha
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Don't no-follow your navigation links, there is no benifit anymore to trying to sculpt pagerank in such a manner anymore. The potential link juice is 'spent' on the link regardless if it is sollowed or not, it's just that no-followed sites don't recive it. Save no-follow only for when your linking to sites you would not want to be assossiated with.
If you want pages out of the index, use meta noindex as opposed to robots.txt.
I would index your login page so people who are googling for it can find it.
On member profiles it would depend if they are reasonably valuable content or no. If it's 99% duplicated content then I would consider no-indexing them. If they have bios and such, then it's probably fine to leave them indexed.
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Hello Sha Menz... Thanks a lot for your reply.... it was truly helpful. Please can u also pitch in to the additional question below. I would be obliged. Thanks again for your response, Regards, Talha
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Hello MyHolidayMarketing, I am truly obliged for your replies... Ok... plz also tell me if I am right about the following. The home page for my website has got links to all Job Categories as well as the individual jobs posted within the categories. I have asked the developer team to make the main Job categories pages as followed links and the individual job posts as no follow (from the home page). The Category pages however have follow links to the post pages.... this way.... Link juice flows from Home Page to main categories - then from the main categories to the sub categories and from the sub categories to the individual job posts pages. What are ur thoughts about this??? Also... can u just let me know which pages I should exclude through the robots.txt file - should these be the member profile pages.... the login pages or should I let crawlers index the login pages??? I will appreciate ur response again. Regards, Talha
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Hi Talha,
Perfect answer from MyHolidayMarketing and a big thumbs up!
The benefit of this method of presentation is that it also reflects for your developer the practical implementation of a menu structure that will make it easier to expose search engine crawlers to all page levels on the site.
Basically, the sub-levels of your dot pointed list represent the sub-levels of your menu. That way, when any page is crawled, the basic menu structure will guide the crawler through all levels of the site.
Keeping the site structure within 3 levels is also a good idea.
Hope that helps,
Sha
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For a simple quick way, I would use a bulleted indented list. Works at a glance, is less demanding then a diagram.
Something like (taking your list as an example and moving all the level 2s up a level, I'm sure you don't want www.url.com/Home/About-us)
- Page Level 1 - HOME Page (URL)
- Page Level 1 - About Us Page
- Page Level 1 - Feedback Page
- Page Level 1 - Our Services
- Page Level 1 - Contact Us Page
- Page Level 1 - Accounting jobs
- Page Level 1 - Audting jobs
- Page level 2 - Junior accouting jobs
- Page Level 1 - Engineering jobs
- Page level 2 - architecture jobs
- Page level 2 - Motor engineering jobs
- Page Level 1 - IT Jobs
- Page level 2 - Hardware Jobs
- Page level 3 - Job Post 1
- Page level 3 - Job Post 2
- Page level 3 - Job Post 3
- Page level 2 - Hardware Jobs
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