Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans. Welcome to this week's edition of Whiteboard Friday, and I'm your host, SEO Shawn. This week I'm going to talk about how do you help Google crawl your website more efficiently. Site structure, sitemaps, & GSC Now I'll start at a high level. I want to talk about your site structure, your sitemaps, and Google Search Console, why they're important and how they're all related together.
So site structure, let's think of a spider. As he builds his web, he makes sure usa business email list to connect every string efficiently together so that he can get across to anywhere he needs to get to, to catch his prey. Well, your website needs to work in that similar fashion. You need to make sure you have a really solid structure, with interlinking between all your pages, categories and things of that sort, to make sure that Google can easily get across your site and do it efficiently without too many disruptions or blockers so they stop crawling your site.
shopping list or a to-do list, if you will, of the URLs you want to make sure that Google is crawling whenever they see your site. Now Google isn't always going to crawl those URLs, but at least you want to make sure that they see that they're there, and that's the best way to do that. GSC and properties Then Google Search Console, anybody that creates a website should always connect a property to their website so they can see all the information that Google is willing to share with you about your site and how it's performing.