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.

Posted by admin on Sunday, February 1st, 2009