Website structure does matter.

When you have decided to create a website for your business or say you are a developer and designing a website for your customer, you should always keep in mind that the Web site structure should not be complicated. A website should be well-organized, a well-organized website is one which is easy to understand, navigate and find easily what the visitor is looking for.

The intensionof the article is to make you understand the level of leaves/pages of the website should reside in. A good well organized website makes it easy for you to grow your site logically.

The page (which has the content) of your website must not be more than two level in the depth, that is the required page should not take more than two clicks from the home page. This is very important with regards to Search Engines.

A typical website structure could be as in the picture below.



Tier 1 – The home page

Tier 2 – The team sites/folders/sub sites

Tier 3 – The leaves/pages with contents

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Hope this helps.