Website architecture has been a focus for SEOs for a long time now, but over the past few years, it’s become even more important. That’s because architecture is the foundation of the entire website. It affects both how visitors interact with your site and whether or not search engines are properly able to analyze your optimized content.
1. Consider using HTTPS encryption. In the past, HTTPS/SSL security was reserved solely for the e-commerce sections of the website. This was to protect sensitive personal information, such as credit card numbers. However, Google is making a push for “HTTPS everywhere” by factoring this into its ranking algorithm.
For now, it’s only a small factor — but that could change as more sites make the move. The key to going fully secure on your website is making sure it does not impede site speed, which is another (probably more important) issue.
2. Keep your security certificate current. Expired security certificates can wreak havoc for your visitors, giving them all kinds of nasty notices in their browser that are likely to scare them off. Keep an eye on your certificate renewals to stay ahead of this.
3. Allow spidering of site via robots.txt. Every now and then when a new site rolls out, the developer forgets to change the robots.txt file to allow the search engines to crawl the pages. If your Web marketer doesn’t think about checking this file, you could spend months wondering why you’re not getting the traffic you should be. Double-check your robots.txt file to make sure it does not “disallow” search engines from crawling your site.
4. Declare your document type. The page’s “doctype” tells the browsers how to translate each Web page. Without a properly declared doctype, the browser has to guess. For the most part, its guess will be correct, but some things simply may not translate properly. Search engines use this to make sure they are analyzing each part of your site correctly.
5. Use valid HTML. While invalid HTML won’t necessarily affect your rankings, it is yet another thing that can cause your page to be translated incorrectly by the browser or the search engine. Proper translation of each page ensures everyone sees what you think they see.
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