Comments on: Beyond the Top 10 SEO Factors

By: Jean

Jean — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:23:08 +0000

Great tips Scott. For page file size, people can even reduce the sizes by using html code cleaners for further benefits like getting more visitors.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:41:13 +0000

I’m not talking about posts, just about pages and categories. Yes most themes in WordPress will just link to everything unless modified.

While that won’t have a “negative” affect, you can do more by creating multiple versions of certain files, (like the footer for example), to do some PageRank sculpting using the nofollow tag.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:36:26 +0000

Scott,

When theming with wordpress, do you use posts or pages? Each page is going to link to the top of all the categories or pages. Does this negatively affect theming?

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:11:01 +0000

Thanks Jason –
Well, you can call it what you want, but I think “Siloing”, or “theming” is just good website structure, and I think it’s hugely effective.

Of course it’s better to design a site like that in the first place, because going back in and restructuring an entirely linear site can be tedious involving lots of 301 redirection, but in the end I do think it’s worth it.

(yes Bruce Clay has a great series, I think it’s 4 parts, on “siloing”)

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:58:18 +0000

Scott, great post. The tip on file size is great. Great jump from Adwords to organic SERPS. How effective is “Siloing”? I have heard some SEO’s say that it is the most effective SEO strategy out there and can cause a site with 100 in bound links to compete with sites with 10,000 in bound links. Before I saw this article, I had already read one of Bruce Clay’s articles on the subject this morning which I found very interesting.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:29:56 +0000

Thanks Paul, for commenting. No, actually, I’d not heard anything about that theory beyond the similar ired rantings against using Google analytics. I can’t imagine there’s an validity to it, but would love to read about it… Got a couple of links?

By: Paul Burani, Clicksharp Marketing

Paul Burani, Clicksharp Marketing — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:55:21 +0000

I agree about the XML sitemap, but have you noticed that there’s some gathering debate about whether using xml-sitemaps.com can actually hurt your SEO? I am not sold, but it’s definitely gathering steam…

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By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:11:19 +0000

thanks Mary, and yep, I’m sure you agree that a Web host can be very important to the success or failure of any search campaign…

By: Mary Bowling

Mary Bowling — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Thanks for the great post, Scott. It’s interesting that so many of your intermediate SEO factors come under the venue of the hosting techs. We constantly struggle with making them aware of how important what they do down in that dark basement is to SEO.