internal linking on a rich content website

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internal linking on a rich content website

will it improve my SE position?

moshebar

12:29 pm on Jan 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

hey,
i have a website with something like 2,000 rich,original and well written articles (most written by my visitors).

the thing is, that right now, in order for someone to find an article, the only way he has is to look for it in my search engine because i don't have a browsable index of articles .

i was wondering if adding a good index for the articles will improve my search engine position.

i know it will probably improve my pagerank, but i'm not worried about pagerank right now (after reading some posts about it on this website's forums).

Quadrille

12:36 pm on Jan 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Good internal navigation can only help your site in the SE indexes - as well as helping your visitors.

moshebar

1:03 pm on Jan 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

"help your site in the SE indexes" - you mean help increasing my position ?

Quadrille

1:41 pm on Jan 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

If you have 2000 pages, then there are many thousands of search terms that should find those pages. If your site navigation is user-friendly, then it is also SE-friendly, and so those pages are more likely to earn their keep.

SEs look at URLs (pages) not sites; every bit helps, and site navigation can help a lot.

Not every change has a direct effect on "increasing my position", but improving your site usually has that effect, if only indirectly.

Shaddows

2:37 pm on Jan 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Having a site that is inherently spiderable can only help with your rankings- not least with initial discovery.

The importance of PR has been greatly exagerated; but so too has news of its death. PR is nothing to get hung up over, but it IS something that affects ranking.

The distribution of PR across a site is essential to get good ranking, and the structure of your navigation is the way you control that. Not to mention the less well-understood factors such as trust, authority and relevancy.

I would not hesitate to get a good structure in place- and not simply a flat index either.

[edited by: Shaddows at 2:40 pm (utc) on Jan. 27, 2009]