Planning the structure of your website is one important step that you should do before coding your web pages. After implementation, you will find it difficult to change things, that is why utmost care is needed to be coupled with the right plan and strategies to ensure that your page structure is at its best.

In designing a web structure, it is recommended to keep it as flat as possible, though you don’t have to necessarily put everything on the root directory to ensure that nothing but only the best results come out at two to three levels deep.

The reason why you should opt for a flat directory is because it prevents the search engine from deep crawling on your site. So when a search engine visits your website, it is set in a way that the crawl coming to your site has depth and significance. For example, if you have a new website, the search engine might crawl to a depth of 2 and for this case, online the vertical page structure above Page 3 of theme 1 is indexed by the search engine while the other pages might become non-existent in the eyes of the engine.

Having a flat directory on the other hand could give all of your site’s pages the opportunity to receive crawls.

Sitemaps

After the website is designed, the next thing to do is create a sitemap which provides a link leading to all the site’s pages. With this, the search engine or search can skip from one page to another of the website.

Linking to the sitemap from every page of thee site, you will notice the effect of interlinking of one page to another. With this, the search engine can easily crawl on every page of the site.

However, after having a sitemap, some people might disregard the importance of a page structure, which is terribly wrong. You have to remember that search engines crawl only to certain depth, automatically disregarding the sitemap as the webpage becomes greater compared to the maximum crawl depth.