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Starhugger -> RE: Footer sitemap links and SEO (10/6/2009 11:07:20)
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Hi Mojo,
Thanks for your reply. That's a relief to know this about the SE crawlers.
What actually got me thinking about doing this was that my links pages suddenly fell off the radar with a PR of zip after they once had at least some PR. The main links page still has a PR, but all other pages are either linked only from that main page or else they're relatively new (less than a year old) and the only extra link is the home page. I got thinking maybe it would make sense to link to all of them in the footer and then my thoughts just kept going from there. ;-)
I also have found that at least one of my biggest SE traffic keywords has lately been drawing far less traffic. I'm not sure if it's just other sites that are competing more or if G changed their algorithm or if I should just be using the keyword more, but doing the footer sitemap would also give me more opportunity to use that and other prime keywords.
I'm now wondering about putting a CSS dropdown menu in the header links (which go to the main content of the site), which would let me pump up the prime keywords more and also use better content navigation, and then putting a more extensive list of links in the footer (like to all links pages) while repeating links to main sections (but not individual pages). Maybe that's a better compromise, since it places the best keywords at the top of the page while still providing links to more obscure pages in the footer. I would just need to make sure that the header navigation is reasonably accessible (or at least the main pages are fully accessible), so I'm thinking a single-tier dropdown using CSS only is probably the way to go.
Does all that make sense? I can see why there are people who specialize just in SEO - it's very complicated, and that doesn't even include the fact that G is always moving the cheese!
SH
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