Digirunt Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 I've just returned to the TCH forums after a couple of weeks absence and have noticed that the whole TCH team has Web Hosting by Total Choice Web Hosting at the end of their signatures with a dash and a short phrase after it. I know how links from other sites are important and how they are worded is too with the before and after words being as important in describing the link but do links to your own site from your own site bear as much relavancy? I'm sure with dsdemmin's expertise on the team their is a very good reason for this and if an explanation goes beyond what you can say here I understand, hey we've all got to make a living. Just a thought. Thumbs Up Quote
TCH-Dick Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 The links in our signatures are all part of the SEO gurus master plan. Googlebot and HotBot have both been spending a LOT of time on the forums indexing it, they both follow links they find sooooo the links in the signatures send them back to the main portion of the website. dsdemmin can explain it a lot better, but in a nut shell inbound links are good Quote
SEO Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Digirunt: Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed all your travels. In addition, kudos on your new job... has to make you feel good! Regarding our signatures, Our signatures are a way to feed 'relevancy' to certain pages within our main site (as Mike said). Therefore to answer your question: ...but do links to your own site from your own site bear as much relevancy? Yes, internal structure (all internal links within a site) is very important. One should cluster pages within general themes. Key pages should be the recipient of links from all the various theme pages. Thus giving hierarchical structure to the site, resulting in hierarchical 'relevancy'. Make sense? Quote
TCH-Don Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Welcome back Nat! congratulations on the new job, it feels good to help others. Hope you took lots of pictures (hint, hint) Quote
Digirunt Posted August 24, 2003 Author Posted August 24, 2003 Thanks guys makes good sense as I thought it would. and yes there are pics and I'll post them soon, we took my cousins camera so he has them at the mo but when he's optimised them I'll get him to email me them. Thumbs Up Quote
Deverill Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 One should cluster pages within general themes. Key pages should be the recipient of links from all the various theme pages. Are the "key pages" the main pages for a particular sub-theme or are they important pages outside that sub-theme? For example, I have themes "General", "Leaders" etc on my church's website. Should the pages under leaders all link back to the Ldrs_index.htm or to the main index page? This theme thing is starting to scare me. I heard that Sears is the biggest seller of lawn mowers in the states but they have terrible ranking for that keyword because they sell so many other things the theme thing just isn't happening on their pages and they get overlooked as being a mishmash of stuff. Quote
SEO Posted August 24, 2003 Posted August 24, 2003 Are the "key pages" the main pages for a particular sub-theme or are they important pages outside that sub-theme? Yes and yes. Hard to give specifics because it truly depends on each site. Some sites may only have one 'theme' thus the key page would be the home page. Other sites that have multiple themes, product categories, unique content, etc. would have a tree structure with each 'theme' being a primary page. Yet, all pages would point back to the home page. Quote
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