You have to be a bit of an architect to design a web site. Before you start you need to draw a map of all of the elements that will be contained in your site and then assign them to their appropriate pages. Remember too, that web pages can be thought of as "pages within pages" or drawers that contain such money generating tools as search engine plug ins and pay per click engines.
If you want to use the "drawers" metaphor try adhering to the following rules --
The Home Page contains links to everything that is on your site as well as two very important plugs ins:
1. a request for an email address
2. a pay per click search engine.
The Products or Catalogue page contains your products as well as:
? Links to affiliates
? Links to written outsourced information about your products
? Links to a payment system
? .jpg thumbnails that when clicked on lead to even more details about the product such as price information
The About Us page contains a link to the Contact Us page as well as the recommended links page.
The web site menu is the equivalent of your site's Table of Contents. Even the most rudimentary of web sites should contain the following pages:
? The Home Page (or landing page). This is a list of all of your products and contains the Five W's (the who, what, when, why and where of your business)
? The Catalogue or Products and Service Page. This lists all of your products and services. This is the page where customers browse your products and services.
?? The About Us (or About the company page) This page describes who you are and the terms of agreement.
?? The Suggested Articles or Links page. This is the page where you can put links to affiliates.
? The Contact Us Page. This contains your coordinates so that your customers can reach you.
The above pages represent the potatoes and carrots on any web site menu. Any other page that you decide to put on the site is icing on the cake.
Make A Site Map
A site map is a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of the overall site contents. -Wikipedia.org
Have you ever seen it? Of course, yes, because almost all web-pages in the Internet has got it. What about me, when I firstly saw a site map I was wondered: why and what for it was made. Nowadays it’s already not a question. Site maps are inalienable parts of usable Web sites. Site maps help visitors to find exactly needed information on your web-page clicking on hyperlink from a list. They provide users with an overview of content of a web-resource and makes it easy for your visitors to find needed products or services.
But the most important role of a site map is its great support in Search Engine Optimization. That is:
- All pages (I mean hyperlinks of these pages) included in site map will be indexed by search engines’ web crawlers and your web-page will be successfully registered in Search Engines. It is a real competitive edge if potential customers find exactly your web-site while looking for needed information at Search Engines.
- Keywords are included in hyperlinks and this is an additional factor, which makes rank of your page higher and it'll will appear in a list of search results on first pages. Now customers find your web-store on Google or Yahoo more quickly and without any problem!
Have you ever tried to create and update a site map by hand? Creation of a site map is easy… if your web-site has only 10 pages, but if there are 50, 100 and even more pages… It can take lots of time and efforts. All of this you can save using software for creating site maps.
Your site map has to be professional for 100%! And a software will do it exactly such way! Here is one of the best – Site Map Module for all sopping carts. It is a very powerful and flexible module for dynamic site map generation. It’s very efficient, reliable and cost effective solution. With help of this module you will achieve two important goals: your visitors will navigate your web-shop easily and fast, creation of a site map will give the best search results for your online shop.
Here are just few features of the Site Map Module:
- very easy installation - start using it in 5 minutes
- ability to restrict depth of categories and products to be shown in generated site map
- you can add unlimited number of custom links
- advanced Admin Section available for advanced users
- supports SEO links (must have enabled for excellent results)
The modules will create a complete, professional and effective site maps for you in few minutes. You and your visitors will be for sure satisfied! Download a trial version and try it: http://www.magneticone.com/store/trial_license.php
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