Correct Use of Home, Sitemap & Contact Page Links
There are several pages that should be given priority – Home Page – Contact Us Page – Sitemap
Your Home page, Sitemap and Contact pages are the primary pages of your website and it is vital that these pages can be easily spidered and highly visible to your site visitors.
For instance a Sitemap is a page which lists all of your website pages on one as simple text links this gives an index to your site in case visitors cannot find a certain page. Just as an index to a shopping mall would show all of the shops and stores and a map of where to find them a site map gives a straightforward list of every page on your site and enables the visitor to click on the link and go to the page instantly. It is a good idea on your sitemap to have all the links to your sub pages and add primary keywords belonging to each page within the link pointing to the page.
Good Navigation is Vital to ensure that visitors can clearly see where to go and what to click to get around your site.
We all rely on navigation signs when driving and walking around places we are not familiar with so try to make it easy for your web site visitors to navigate around your website with ease and make sure on every page it is obvious where to click and what they will find. You will be too familiar with your own site as you look at it probably every day but your visitors are not so familiar and you should test your site on other people to find out if it really is easy.
Your Contact page is very important because visitors who have questions will want to locate this contact us page easily no matter what page they are on at the time, so don't hide it away at the foot of the page and have it clearly visible to the left hand or top of the page and visible at all times.
Your Home page is of course vitally important perhaps the most important page of all as it is the first page visitors see and first impressions count as they do with all aspects of business and relationships as if the first impression is a good one then the visitor will remain on your site and hopefully look around it.
!It is essential that you make these pages a top priority in your layout and design and think simply without making it too complicated and if you make it easy for your visitors then you are making it easy for the Search Engines to spider and read and navigate your site then you will be making it Search Engine Friendly.
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