hi guys, I thought my travel site's link structure's pretty cool.lol.just kidding. it looks alrite to me. what do you think?more ways to improve it ?http://www.travelwalk.net/phpBB2/index.phplooks great to me...you have alot of strong PR going to internal pages and thus being returned to the home page and other main topic pages.Hi.Are you using mod rewrite for the pages? It's nice. I like the way you have it set up.I ran your structure ... well the first 35 of 104 pages anyway ... through my link analyzer.My first concern is how you reference the root document (index.php) in some cases you appear to be using '/' in other cases the full name 'index.php'. This is considered to be two documents by spiders and in effect splits the PR between your domain and the page.(http://www.travelwalk.net/index.html vs http://www.travelwalk.net/)The number of external links found seems to be small and scattered throughout the pages. This will reduce page rank leak. Your partner site should get a good pop from links on every page once you get some PR inside your site.You have successfully choked the PR going into the forums by forcing navigation through index.php and profile.php (I hope this is what you wanted?).Most of the PR is returning to pages in the root but you might consider streamlining your internal links. Most pages have 20-30 links to internal pages. You can cut that down on some of your least important pages. For example does every forum page need a link to faq, about and recommendation? Thin the links out to what is logical at that point in your structure and pass more PR back to the higher pages.what are you using for the link analysis? Sounds cool!wow. what a good analysis!Many thanks for all yr comments in this thread guys!"My first concern is how you reference the root document (index.php) in some cases you appear to be using '/' in other cases the full name 'index.php'. This is considered to be two documents by spiders and in effect splits the PR between your domain and the page. (http://www.travelwalk.net/index.html vs http://www.travelwalk.net/)"- How careless of me! I should have seen that. I am sticking to http://www.travelwalk.net/index.html. -I am just guessing here...As long as I stick to one of them, it should be alright?"The number of external links found seems to be small and scattered throughout the pages. This will reduce page rank leak. Your partner site should get a good pop from links on every page once you get some PR inside your site. "- I intend to keep it that way. I have some more backlinks that are coming up I need the boost. travel sites are hard to make.. too much competition...."You have successfully choked the PR going into the forums by forcing navigation through index.php and profile.php (I hope this is what you wanted?). "- Yes. I was just guessing about this too. Better way to this ? I cant think of any.. please advise.-Also, one question related to this.. What happens if I have the latest posts fetched to my home (index.html) page? Will I be drawing out the PR from the forums to the home page or vice versa?"Most of the PR is returning to pages in the root but you might consider streamlining your internal links. Most pages have 20-30 links to internal pages. You can cut that down on some of your least important pages. For example does every forum page need a link to faq, about and recommendation? "- I dont understand the last line. I have my forum pages link to faq.which about, recommendation are you talking abt ? sorry, lost here. As for the first part, waht good does it do to my PR on home page._?Will streamlining my internal links increase my current PR5? or simply it increases both the home page N other internal important pages..?- I think you are hinting on the second one. increasing home page N other important pages... right?"Thin the links out to what is logical at that point in your structure and pass more PR back to the higher pages."- lol. this sounds poetic but I think I know what you mean in here.-Seems like heaps to do . will start on it later on.Thanks guys!TIA for incoming comments too! "I am just guessing here...As long as I stick to one of them, it should be alright? " In reference to the home page I think it's best to get rid of any links pointing to index.html...because http://www.yourdomain.com will always exist.....replace the index.html links with http://www.domain.com....that's what people who link to you without you asking are most likely to link to....and those are the best links!Yes I think you are right abt it plaugh. I always use "/" to refer to the root document ... but I also leave one reference to index.*. If you have both references on your home page it is counted as two backlinks. Fetching posts to front page ... if you provide a link into the forum it will also transfer PR.Thinning links ... what I mean here is the less travelled pages do not need 20-30 links. PR is divided by the number of links per page so you dilute the PRcoming back from those pages. Yes I believe it is possible to magnify the incoming PR and pass it back to your home page. I have seen two examples so far where I think this has happened.Quote:Very helpful information here! Quote
age Rank (PR) is always transferred from the page with links to the page it is pointing toward. A link on your home page will transfer PR to the forums.If you are allowing signatures with links then you might want to choke it off to reduce page rank leak from your site. Otherwise put lots of internal links on every page to keep page rank within the site (like OZZU). lol. I see I see. I will get down to changing the stuffs now.thanks for the advice rtchar. it has only been good so far!lol. done with the changes guys.see any stuff ups, tell me please. esp. google related-other than the grammer, language- whcih is pretty bad. lol.compliemtns of my friend who wrote the articles..i suspect hes dyslexic.Cheers mate!HUGE improvement in channelling PR ...I had to teach my bot a few new tricks to handle your site (never expected '\%20' in an address) but managed to crawl your entire site anyway. Looks like you are retaining 70% of potential PR within your site. Not bad at all!All references to /index.htm are gone ... I wonder if you should keep at least some reference? Maybe on pages where there are two links to the home page. On my site the domain has PR-5 and default.htm has PR-4 so Google is not treating them as duplicate pages.You have a couple of rank sinks (pages with no forward links):1. Errorshttp://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... /login.phphttp://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... gister.phpThese pages refer to memberlist.php and privmsg.php which would logically be in the same directory. Yet, the page appears to be redirected to a different directory. Might be a weakness in my bot ... but when I try to access the pages directly I get an error.http://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... sg.php:5002. Picturehttp://www.travelwalk.net/eastern-europe.htm has a link to http://www.travelwalk.net/docu/poland Apparently this loads a picture file (which failed for me by the way). Do not load pictures into the user's browser, picture files are not assigned PR. Since there are no forward links the PR is simply lost. Put pictures on a simple page with at least one link back into the site.3. PDF Fileshttp://www.travelwalk.net/docu/train_tokyo.pdfAgain might be a weakness in my bot ... I don't parse PDF files. Make sure PDF files contain links back into your site. Google does parse PDF files and if there are no forward links PR is lost from your site.Hope this all helps ...Quote:
age Rank (PR) is always transferred from the page with links to the page it is pointing toward. A link on your home page will transfer PR to the forums.If you are allowing signatures with links then you might want to choke it off to reduce page rank leak from your site. Otherwise put lots of internal links on every page to keep page rank within the site (like OZZU). lol. I see I see. I will get down to changing the stuffs now.thanks for the advice rtchar. it has only been good so far!lol. done with the changes guys.see any stuff ups, tell me please. esp. google related-other than the grammer, language- whcih is pretty bad. lol.compliemtns of my friend who wrote the articles..i suspect hes dyslexic.Cheers mate!HUGE improvement in channelling PR ...I had to teach my bot a few new tricks to handle your site (never expected '\%20' in an address) but managed to crawl your entire site anyway. Looks like you are retaining 70% of potential PR within your site. Not bad at all!All references to /index.htm are gone ... I wonder if you should keep at least some reference? Maybe on pages where there are two links to the home page. On my site the domain has PR-5 and default.htm has PR-4 so Google is not treating them as duplicate pages.You have a couple of rank sinks (pages with no forward links):1. Errorshttp://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... /login.phphttp://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... gister.phpThese pages refer to memberlist.php and privmsg.php which would logically be in the same directory. Yet, the page appears to be redirected to a different directory. Might be a weakness in my bot ... but when I try to access the pages directly I get an error.http://www.travelwalk.net/gallery/cpg1. ... sg.php:5002. Picturehttp://www.travelwalk.net/eastern-europe.htm has a link to http://www.travelwalk.net/docu/poland Apparently this loads a picture file (which failed for me by the way). Do not load pictures into the user's browser, picture files are not assigned PR. Since there are no forward links the PR is simply lost. Put pictures on a simple page with at least one link back into the site.3. PDF Fileshttp://www.travelwalk.net/docu/train_tokyo.pdfAgain might be a weakness in my bot ... I don't parse PDF files. Make sure PDF files contain links back into your site. Google does parse PDF files and if there are no forward links PR is lost from your site.Hope this all helps ...Quote: