Bad Architecture and Band-Aid Solutions

[htmlbasictutor]

Today Michael Gray posted an article on his Michael Gray Graywolf's SEO Blog regarding poor site architecture and the band-aid solutions Google provides for you to fix the poor architecture of sites.

In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on … at all....

Continued: Bad Architecture and Band-Aid Solutions

So, do you spend your time implementing these band-aid solutions or do you make sure that your site architecture is such the all search bots can index your site?

[edosauyi]

Never heard of site architecture but i always try to make my site search engine friendly by using some seo technique i already know.

[angilina]

"Not to worry we can use the “rel=canonical” to point to the URL without the parameter, we can also use webmaster tools to tell it to ignore the “feed” parameter and we’re good to go right … wrong junior that’s two band-aids you needed to use instead of solving the problem properly."

I do use band-aid solutions plus I make sure that my site do not have any problems. Like, I do use the "canonical" tag, but I already have make sure that there are no 2 URLs pointing to the same page. I am using band-aid solutions, just in case I missed something and to add extra protection

[htmlbasictutor]

But, the band-aid solutions Google supplies may not work for the "other" guys.

One should make sure their site architecture is such that it works for all search bots.

[Bompa]

"site architecture" is a term invented by professional SEOs to give themselves something
to talk about and something to sell, since we all know that they don't actually do anything.

When you put up a new page, be sure you give it a link, done.

Fact is, most sites are using some sort of CMS, like a blog, which does that automatically.



Bompa

[htmlbasictutor]

Site architecture is slang for website architecture.

Website architecture is an approach to the design and planning of websites which, like architecture itself, involves technical, aesthetic and functional criteria. As in traditional architecture, the focus is properly on the user and on user requirements. This requires particular attention to web content, a business plan, usability, interaction design, information architecture and web design. For effective search engine optimization it is necessary to have an appreciation of how a single website relates to the World Wide Web....

Reference: Website architecture

One of the more important parts of SEO is having a well thought-out site architecture. While this topic is often discussed, how you should derive your site architecture from your keyword research usually isn't as well detailed. ...

Keywords and Site Architecture