Website structure is the basis of SEO optimization. You need to take care of it at the development stage. What do you need to pay attention to?
Website Crawlability
Search engines such as Google and Yandex, for example, crawl sites, each page of a site. System robots make copies of resource pages and save them in the “index” storage, this is like a huge web book.
When a user drives their query, the search engine scans this web book in search of a relevant page and shows what it considers the most suitable. For your site to be found by users, you need to be in this book. And in order to be in the book, the site must be indexed.
Most sites, as a rule, do not have crawling problems. However, there are things that can become a problem. For example, JavaScript or Flash sometimes hide links, making the pages that lead to these links hidden from search engines. Both that and another can lead to that some words on pages will be invisible.
What does it mean? If these words are key to your business, and it is for them that a person is looking for a service or product, then he most likely will not find your site in Google or Yandex.
Search engines crawl every site and, depending on the coefficient of trust and credibility of the site, allocates a certain time for crawling every day.
SEO specialists can increase crawl efficiency for certain pages of a site. This can be helped by robots.txt files in the code, a ban on indexing unwanted pages that can only lower a site in ranking or duplicates, for example.
Most indexing issues can be circumvented. Use sitemaps, both HTML and XML, so search engines can easily crawl your site. Remember, “search engine friendly design” is also “human friendly design!”
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Relevant page for Google. How to achieve this?
Mobile responsive website
Today, people are more likely to search for something from mobile devices than from desktop computers and laptops. Therefore, it is natural that Google and Yandex reward websites that are convenient for mobile devices with a chance to increase their ranking in mobile searches. So make your site mobile. You will increase your chances of success with the help of search rankings, as well as delight your mobile visitors. Moreover, if you have developed a mobile application, consider using indexing and linking applications that are offered by search engines.
Duplication / Canonicalization
The Index accumulates so many pages of your site that by scrolling through it, the search system can see pages that look almost the same, which makes it difficult for her to figure out which of these many pages she should return for this search. This is not good.
