Comments on: Click Distance Matters. http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/ Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:08:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: SEO e click distance » Controrete - Search Engine Marketing Blog » Blog Archive http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4292 SEO e click distance » Controrete - Search Engine Marketing Blog » Blog Archive Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:51:08 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4292 [...] Quando realizzate un sito, dunque, tenete a mente questi due concetti: click distance e prodondità dell’URL. Se anche SeoBlackHat ne ha trovato beneficio, un motivo ci sarà [...] [...] Quando realizzate un sito, dunque, tenete a mente questi due concetti: click distance e prodondità dell’URL. Se anche SeoBlackHat ne ha trovato beneficio, un motivo ci sarà [...]

]]> By: Why You Need to Dump that Google Sitemap: Today! http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4160 Why You Need to Dump that Google Sitemap: Today! Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:18:28 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4160 [...] If you check out my sitemap above (in yellow), you can easily read every post I’ve ever written. The Visited hyperlink is a different color than the non visited. So, if you want to go from post to post just scanning the headlines that interest you, it’s easy to do so. Plus, with this setup, the click distance from any post to any other post is at most 2. [...] [...] If you check out my sitemap above (in yellow), you can easily read every post I’ve ever written. The Visited hyperlink is a different color than the non visited. So, if you want to go from post to post just scanning the headlines that interest you, it’s easy to do so. Plus, with this setup, the click distance from any post to any other post is at most 2. [...]

]]> By: Click Distance and SEO: An Experiment http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4154 Click Distance and SEO: An Experiment Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:21:28 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4154 [...] [SEO Black Hat] click distance , internal structure , seo experiment [...] [...] [SEO Black Hat] click distance , internal structure , seo experiment [...]

]]> By: Click Distance: Site Structure And SEO - YellowHouseHosting http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4152 Click Distance: Site Structure And SEO - YellowHouseHosting Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:55:20 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4152 [...] Quadzilla at SEO Black Hat ran an interesting seo experiment on click distance and how it affects ranking. In case you don’t know, click distance is the number of clicks it takes to get to a page on your site from the home page. While it certainly isn’t the most scientific experiment you’ll ever see I think the results make sense and I’ve noticed similar things on my own site. [...] [...] Quadzilla at SEO Black Hat ran an interesting seo experiment on click distance and how it affects ranking. In case you don’t know, click distance is the number of clicks it takes to get to a page on your site from the home page. While it certainly isn’t the most scientific experiment you’ll ever see I think the results make sense and I’ve noticed similar things on my own site. [...]

]]> By: Muskie http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4144 Muskie Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:40:54 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4144 I agree in the importance of click distance, though I've heard this phenomenom described as depth, usually to do with directories. Click Distance can be offset a bit by internal linking but ultimately as you post more and more content linking to every posting on the front page will be ugly and affect the human usability. One thing I turfed from my blog was the monthly archives, occaisionally these used to show up in my search engine referals but who really cares what I wrote in March of 2005. No one surfs the web like that. I do like category based navigation though. These pages show up in my search engine referrals and allow end users to subscribe to just one category or quickly browse on the one category they might be interested in. I agree in the importance of click distance, though I’ve heard this phenomenom described as depth, usually to do with directories. Click Distance can be offset a bit by internal linking but ultimately as you post more and more content linking to every posting on the front page will be ugly and affect the human usability.

One thing I turfed from my blog was the monthly archives, occaisionally these used to show up in my search engine referals but who really cares what I wrote in March of 2005. No one surfs the web like that. I do like category based navigation though. These pages show up in my search engine referrals and allow end users to subscribe to just one category or quickly browse on the one category they might be interested in.

]]> By: SEO and Click Distance http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4133 SEO and Click Distance Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:33:35 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4133 [...] Today SEOBlackhat, which has been host to some amazing blogging of late, published the results of a Click Distance makeover of their Wordpress template which did away with categorical listing pages and Google Sitemap, while setting up their own basic Sitemap which is a list of links to each blog post. [...] [...] Today SEOBlackhat, which has been host to some amazing blogging of late, published the results of a Click Distance makeover of their Wordpress template which did away with categorical listing pages and Google Sitemap, while setting up their own basic Sitemap which is a list of links to each blog post. [...]

]]> By: lemonsun http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 lemonsun Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:59:32 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4114 "3. Got rid of the Google Sitemap." Soon after i've implemented google sitemap, google drop over 2000 indexed pages of mine..... “3. Got rid of the Google Sitemap.”

Soon after i’ve implemented google sitemap, google drop over 2000 indexed pages of mine…..

]]> By: rxbbx http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4113 rxbbx Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:53:34 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4113 I ve seen that paper... I am just surprised. Thought a good sitemap etc would be enough in some way. Didnt test it by myself. I ve seen that paper… I am just surprised. Thought a good sitemap etc would be enough in some way. Didnt test it by myself.

]]> By: » Whitehat Comment Spamming - Web Publishing Blog http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4112 » Whitehat Comment Spamming - Web Publishing Blog Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:13:53 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4112 [...] Partially related, Quadzilla has made an excellent post at SEO Blackhat that is worth a read for all search engine optimizers. [...] [...] Partially related, Quadzilla has made an excellent post at SEO Blackhat that is worth a read for all search engine optimizers. [...]

]]> By: QuadsZilla http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-4111 QuadsZilla Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:33:53 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2006/10/01/click-distance-matters/#comment-4111 Thanks brad. I appreciate the offer and had considered doing something like that (homepage=Target Keywords plus sitemap). But I'm sure our friends at Google wouldn't mind a good excuse to ban this site. It's not Google's style to censor differing opinions - in genereal they're a little too classy for that. But I'm not the new york times so i'm not sure I could get away with cloaking here. Other sites, no problem. But here, the benefits don't outway the risk. Thanks brad. I appreciate the offer and had considered doing something like that (homepage=Target Keywords plus sitemap).

But I’m sure our friends at Google wouldn’t mind a good excuse to ban this site. It’s not Google’s style to censor differing opinions – in genereal they’re a little too classy for that. But I’m not the new york times so i’m not sure I could get away with cloaking here.

Other sites, no problem. But here, the benefits don’t outway the risk.

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