Comments on: Cleaning up your website – SEO Housekeeping

By: goodseo

goodseo — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:04:14 +0000

Hi there and thanx for the question! Good one too. No, Google understands what a Footer is and treats it as a primary way of navigation. But see it this way: You build your website for people right? So essentially you show people a nice top or left menu to navigate your site and once they reach the bottom on a page you present them with a simple text based navigation too without them having to scroll up again in order to change pages. Nothing wrong with a little usability right?

Also, you only present your most important pages in the footer because of space constraints. Google treats these as important pages too. In short. This a an acceptable way of including site-wide navigation on any site. Hope this helps?

Regards
Etienne

By: O.

O. — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:55:44 +0000

Nice article. Just a question, if the footer is site-wide the links in the footer will also be site-wide of course, wouldn’t that be a bit to much for google?

Cheers

By: goodseo

goodseo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:09:50 +0000

Thank you Sanjay! Much appreciated. Need to find something else to write about. It’s long overdue…

By: Sanjay Deva

Sanjay Deva — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:28:22 +0000

Hi Etienne,
Top post. You have a wealth of great information in a well set out easy to read manner.
Keep up the great information.
Thanks

By: goodseo

goodseo — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:49:06 +0000

Thank you very much for the comment Mike! Good luck

By: Mike CJ

Mike CJ — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:20 +0000

Wow! Guilty of too many of those. Thanks for the tips!

By: goodseo

goodseo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:17:02 +0000

Thank you very much for the visit and the kind words sir. There’s not enough content on this site yet, but I will try my best in 2010

By: mk akan

mk akan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:12:22 +0000

i see that i still have a lot to learn about seo.i will be digging into your archives and have added you to my reader.Great job and thanks Robert Bravery for throwing the link to this blog..great job

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:42:11 +0000

Once again a top post. Unfortunately a little too close to home. AS I was guilty of a few of those before.

(Sly confession here)

I must admit I do not use my footer as much as I should. Thanks for the heads up.

Spelling has always been my biggest problem. Thats why I get my wife to proof read. So any spelling mistakes are hers.

I can see why you have the job you do. You ahve great insight as well as a nak to make it sound so simple and easy.