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Fri 02/04/10 at 22:29
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Hello all,

Im a bit new to building websites however I have managed them for years. Can you add nested web pages to a website in instant pro? for example, can I have a page called www.example.com/help/help.html or is it only possible to create pages with one nest eg www.example.com/help

Basically I know it is better for search engines if navigation is nested for sitemaps however I could not see function for this within instant pro. I may be completely wrong however!

Any help?

Kind Regards
Wed 07/04/10 at 14:31
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Matt Cutts (Google) has release this new video today regarding directory structure which might be of interest to you?

Re. SEO on your current site - the page TITLE is very important to Search Engines - looking at your site, you can make a lot more use of them :¬)

Good luck.
[s]Hmmm...[/s] My Freeola InstantPro Site
Wed 07/04/10 at 11:18
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Thanks Mate,

I'll continue with my current approach at the moment then!

My website is still under construction at the moment and will aim to fully launch it in November.

For the moment please feel to view it , www.p-d-c.co.uk. Any input or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Kind Regards
Tue 06/04/10 at 13:29
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I wouldn't be surprised if 'folders' were introduced with InstantPro in the future as they are useful - I use them quite a lot on my non-InstantPro Freeola sites.

For the time being I think your only option will be to use file names along with a name strategy.

i.e. Using either underscores or hyphens

www.example.com/people-Richard_Payne.html
www.example.com/people-Bill_Gates.html

www.example.com/products-chair.html
www.example.com/products-desk.html


Obviously this isn't the only SEO consideration - happy to look at your site to see if you are missing anything important!

[s]Hmmm...[/s] My Freeola InstantPro Site
Tue 06/04/10 at 09:42
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Thanks for the reply Luke!

I am still a bit confused as I was hoping to create sections on my site in a tree format, which to my understanding is the best way to build sites for SEO and tidiness. Eg I would have sections on my web site which branched out from the core.

For example:

www.example.com/information/people/Richard_Payne

But it is not possible to type "/" into page names as it returns an error, is there a way round this or will all pages have to have single branches, eg:

www.example.com/richard_payne

While this would still give the functionality from a users point of view it is still a rather cumbersome solution. So basically is there a way to have the page title be one thing eg Richard Payne and the web address be www.example.com/information/people/Richard_Payne

Thanks for any input you can give me!

Kind Regards

Richard Payne
Sat 03/04/10 at 00:17
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With InstantPro sites the page titles are used to create the page URI. We also create a sitemap.xml file automatically to help with google. InstantPro pretty much handles basic SEO for you to focus on meta descriptions and optmising your site for keywords.
Fri 02/04/10 at 22:29
Regular
Posts: 6
Hello all,

Im a bit new to building websites however I have managed them for years. Can you add nested web pages to a website in instant pro? for example, can I have a page called www.example.com/help/help.html or is it only possible to create pages with one nest eg www.example.com/help

Basically I know it is better for search engines if navigation is nested for sitemaps however I could not see function for this within instant pro. I may be completely wrong however!

Any help?

Kind Regards

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