I think many people feel confused about how to create relevant categories and subcategories (hubs). There needs to be a separate video just on that topic.
I have been away from my sites for a few years and much has changed including WordPress. Thank you for the tips on how to set up WordPress for efficient siloing. Much appreciated.
Whooooaa, this is an absolute steamroller of a SEO tutorial. Not only is it presented in breathtaking speed but it’s also chock-full of executable wisdom. Happy to have stumbled on this tutorial!
I always found Gael so, so difficult to understand. But he seems to be making an effort with elocution lessons or similar and it's a huge improvement on earlier AH vids when I could only understand Mark! :) Just slow it down a little more Gael if you can, because the information itself is absolute gold Thanks for the vid
I love that this is already ranking third for SEO Silo in RUclips for me. I went looking for Miles Beckler's video to share it with someone and there this was.
Always great to hear and see Gael speak! But, permalink or URL structure was not discussed when talking about nested pages. When you go 3 levels deep, would you keep the parent pages in de URL structure or would you make all pages go on the root. Last option tends to rank better imo, as well as it is better for UX. But is it possible to do that with your way of working Gael, and the nested plugin?
Hi Gael, do you publish silo's as a whole at the same time, or do you publish pages for the silo when they're done? (I'm building a silo as you describe now, and for example my hub page links out to 2 existing posts, but also to 8 future posts that I didn't write yet.)
for everyone who thinks twice after or before the video: "Should I do it like that?" I founded a blog a view years ago without really watching out for great internal linking, just threw in some fitting pages and articles... but now I got fcked. After deleting old content and reworking existing stuff I blew up a bit again.. so damn yeah do it!
As you said sillo structure means don't link other category post or page.. My question: Usually Author name in the beginning of a post and Author bio box are linked with author page or about us page that destroys silo structure.. should it be linked or not for maintaining silo structure??
Hi i have on question. If i have a online shop for Gin. And a lot of different categories, like colored gin -> Blue Gin, gin from different countries -> England.... Then the depth of the page grows big like, Gin -> colored Gin -> blue Gin -> product. Thet would be 4 steps to reach the product. Now my question. Would it make more sense to have more categories in the main menu? So that it would be colored gins -> blu gin -> product? Or do i really need the main category Gin ? Could i use different content hubs like, Gin by color , Gin by region, gin by story , Special offers? ore do i need a main hub like gin to make a good website structure? Thanks mate
Thanks a lot, BUT… I have wordpress, indeed and paginations. How I can managed a category (redirect post to category for better looking) if I have 200 posts in that category? Let s say I have category “weight loss diets” and 200 posts (diets). How I can put all these posts in a single page (category)? How to avoid pagination? Thanks a lot in advance!
Great guide (also your blog post on the subject)... but I noticed your blog page has "load more" instead of pagination. As far as I know - it's not better than pagination. Can you please elaborate on that?
Hi Gael, Thanks for these amazing tips. I have a quick question. I have recently launched a site just last week. Few posts are already indexed. Can I change the site architecture now? Or will it be a problem? Please let me know your thoughts on this.
Great video. May I ask, I have a content site with 120 pages. I use RankMath, when I started building the site I utilised the 'strip category base' option, so although I do have categories, they are not in the urls. I thought this would help by having shorter url's on my posts & pages. Do you think this was a bad idea? Perhaps it would have helped if I left the category names in there?
We use that option too on our site together with perms links setting postname. I like it because it allows you to recategorize things later which hard silos don’t allow.
@@AuthorityHacker I was just wondering about this because soft silos was not mentioned so I wondered, are you now instead recommending hard silos as the best method? Way back I followed your advice to make virtual silos, (soft silos) with permalinks. Please confirm if you are recommending the methods in video as the best option or should i stick to my soft silo permalink structure? Using elementor pro & Rankmath Pro.
I tried creating a page for one of my categories and redirect the category to the page - this works for the category page, but for all the posts within the category they now point to the category name? My Category is called network-automation, so I created a page called network-automation, then I rename the category page to network-automation-cat and redirected this to network-automation page - which works, but all posts, are now in network-automation-cat category? What am I doing wrong?
Nothing is wrong. I would suggest you just change the name to something slightly different as of course the name of the category will be shown in breadcrumbs etc
Hey guys I've got a question I've found a niche that has a lot of kw with very high cpc and very little competition. So this potentially mean that display ads pays very well right? what type of content I can create if the search intent of various kw I found is pointing at local businesses ?
Helpful video. But I’ve a question. What if a product fits into multiple categories? Let’s say I have a “keyboard” and “mouse” section. I’m reviewing a new kind of product that’s both keyboard and mouse. Or I’m reviewing best combos for gaming. Where do I stick that?
If you are using soft silos and your category isn’t in your URL you could easily link to it from both the keyboard and mouse hub pages in a “combo” sub section.
Do you just place your money articles into silos or do you place info articles in there too? seems that you just use this silo structure for review articles. Also whats your thoughts on using a silo structure and have the home page displaying articles - that ok? Thanks
You can either do Silos by topic (commercial + info in same silo) or by content type (reviews, guide etc) and then you split them. Both work, just stick to what you started with!
WOW..my brain imploded, don't get 30% if it, (will watch again) but somehow, it seems you become the spider at the centre of the WEB...you know that web next to the street light...much munch.
Hey! I have a question, it would be awesome if somebody could help me. Which way of creating your web structure is the best? 1. You have a big category in your authority site e.g. computers and then you want to make it more concrete so you create more categories such as desktops / laptops / etc. Then in those categories you link to your main content pieces that link to secondary content. This is very organized but it takes 4+ clicks to reach the smallest pieces of content. 2. Everything is the same, however you do not make the sub-category for desktops / laptops / etc. But you just link to those main pieces of content in your category page "computers" This would also be quite organized, however, the spread of distribution of link juice would go very widely. What to do in such sifuation
@@AuthorityHacker I plan to write more than 50 articles on one category. Wouldn't your solution cause some problems later on putting those articles under those sub-categories instead of the main category?
@@fahadhafeez8086 It is a very complex thing, so I will not answer here, however, the most important thing IMO you need to keep in mind is the intent and potential cannibalization. So, what you need to make sure is if an article should consist of 2 similar keyword in an article ir should be 2 separate articles. You can check that by typing in the keywords into Google and see what SERPs do you get. If 70% of the SERP matches in both keywords, write 1 article consisting of both of those keywords. If the SERP is different, write 2 separate ones. Afterwards, is internal linking game, which I have not yet mastered.
Yeah they do know how to use them or the internet would be a mess, but from a page rank perspective, you are wasting a lot of “links juice” on numbered category pages which can be avoided with a proper hub page.
the content is really great on this video but i suggest to put on subtitle into it. No offense but there are lot of times when i don''t really understand what you are saying by the way you pronounce some words and almost lost interest on continuing to watch the whole video.
Bro... Slow TF down. I feel like you know what you're talking about but your accent is thick. This is a very specific topic so I appreciate your expertise but youre talking too fast.
I'm not sure this video is relevant anymore or ever was? If you design pages you will need to create hub pages which is a lot of work as apposed to dynamic archive/category pages. 10 posts per archive page is a good number besides you can increase this number easily with a few clicks in WP. Use category pages, Google knows how these work and does not require lots of text to rank them. For link juice you simply link down through the silo from within the body text of each page and back up again. Realistically you only need one link per page to spread link juice.
the problem with post grids is they create not 1 but multiple links per entry with shitty anchor text and those pages have 0 unique content. You can solve all these issues by creating your own hub pages.
@@AuthorityHacker I get what you're saying but Google knows how WordPress works, the vast majority of bloggers use archive pages, and some make good money regardless. WP pagination is crap but each archive page is still indexable even if full of excerpts. Check out Miles Becklers blog pages... clean and simple. One option is to create a unique page and shortcode latest blogs to appear below. If it were a major problem why haven't automatic fixed it?
![SEO Silos: How to Rank for More Keywords Without Building Links [5 Ways]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6GC2y0cNXcw/mqdefault.jpg)
I think many people feel confused about how to create relevant categories and subcategories (hubs). There needs to be a separate video just on that topic.
yes still struggling with silos
Agreed.
I have been away from my sites for a few years and much has changed including WordPress. Thank you for the tips on how to set up WordPress for efficient siloing. Much appreciated.
Like the mixture of theory and real-life-sites examples. Clicked from YT homepage. Cheers mate!
Whooooaa, this is an absolute steamroller of a SEO tutorial. Not only is it presented in breathtaking speed but it’s also chock-full of executable wisdom. Happy to have stumbled on this tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
I always found Gael so, so difficult to understand. But he seems to be making an effort with elocution lessons or similar and it's a huge improvement on earlier AH vids when I could only understand Mark! :)
Just slow it down a little more Gael if you can, because the information itself is absolute gold
Thanks for the vid
I watch in 75% speed.
Really helpful video. Definitely going to be applying some of your suggestions. Loving the mix of long and short videos
Thanks Michalel! Glad you enjoyed this!
Gael's straight forward talking is just gold.
Thanks M K!
YOU can do it! Find something that interests you, has worked for others, pore your heart into it and never quit. Good luck to you all! :)
That was Pure Gold. No Bullshit. Just Knowledge. Thanks.
Thank you for the graphs I love the visuals make it much easier where to put things.
Outstanding video. I already lost how much times I saw it to get a better understanding. Thanks, Gael.
I love that this is already ranking third for SEO Silo in RUclips for me. I went looking for Miles Beckler's video to share it with someone and there this was.
Hey we love Miles too, there's room for everyone :D.
I have seen this video for 3-4 times but Still not understand why you create redirect pages. I think we expect elaborated video on this topic.
Omg wait Gael, I think I need to slow this video down or maybe I'm just slow lol, but super helpful, thank you so much!
Great insight on properly setting up a SILO structure
Glad you enjoyed it Danny!
Always great to hear and see Gael speak! But, permalink or URL structure was not discussed when talking about nested pages. When you go 3 levels deep, would you keep the parent pages in de URL structure or would you make all pages go on the root. Last option tends to rank better imo, as well as it is better for UX. But is it possible to do that with your way of working Gael, and the nested plugin?
Great idea🎉
Hi Gael, do you publish silo's as a whole at the same time, or do you publish pages for the silo when they're done? (I'm building a silo as you describe now, and for example my hub page links out to 2 existing posts, but also to 8 future posts that I didn't write yet.)
It's always paintball..Haha. Great video guys.
It’s for the Authority Hacker bingo players 😜
Great content Gael! Thanks!!!
for everyone who thinks twice after or before the video: "Should I do it like that?"
I founded a blog a view years ago without really watching out for great internal linking, just threw in some fitting pages and articles... but now I got fcked. After deleting old content and reworking existing stuff I blew up a bit again.. so damn yeah do it!
Please make a video how to create Topic Cluster?
What do you mean by topic cluster?
@@AuthorityHacker I mean how to do proper keyword research for creating Topic Cluster in wordpress
@@famifami5771 check this live stream replay for keyword research: ruclips.net/video/HNjmHKjAtFI/видео.html
That’s what i am looking for. Thanks
More webshite owners should watch this video!
Great video. Link whisper is a time saver.👌🏼
I am still struggling to do keyword research and internal linking in case of Topical or silo structure
Excellent video. Thanks!
Thanks for checking it out James!
Excellent video!
Thank you
Thanks for the post
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a powerfull video! But What With running affiliate site? I dont have plan in start and now i need repair site structure :( thanks for answer
As you said sillo structure means don't link other category post or page..
My question: Usually Author name in the beginning of a post and Author bio box are linked with author page or about us page that destroys silo structure.. should it be linked or not for maintaining silo structure??
Just in time as I am getting ready to launch a new website soon.
Boom!
Should a sylo have 3 or 4 level
1 it the money pages.
Any SEO issues for applying infinite scroll to category pages?
Thank you!
Hi
i have on question. If i have a online shop for Gin. And a lot of different categories, like colored gin -> Blue Gin, gin from different countries -> England.... Then the depth of the page grows big like, Gin -> colored Gin -> blue Gin -> product. Thet would be 4 steps to reach the product.
Now my question. Would it make more sense to have more categories in the main menu? So that it would be colored gins -> blu gin -> product? Or do i really need the main category Gin ?
Could i use different content hubs like, Gin by color , Gin by region, gin by story , Special offers? ore do i need a main hub like gin to make a good website structure?
Thanks mate
Can we make complete Topic Cluster in one Silo?
Mean "One money page" and other supported pages
Really good content. Subbed 👍
Welcome to the family Daniel!
Is it important to also link back to a hub from each "child" page?
finally, found how to do silo in wp natively
Thanks a lot, BUT… I have wordpress, indeed and paginations. How I can managed a category (redirect post to category for better looking) if I have 200 posts in that category? Let s say I have category “weight loss diets” and 200 posts (diets). How I can put all these posts in a single page (category)? How to avoid pagination? Thanks a lot in advance!
This was helpful. I subbed you.
For some reason, the translation of this video is from Deutch and not from English. Can you fix it?
Great vid
Great guide (also your blog post on the subject)... but I noticed your blog page has "load more" instead of pagination. As far as I know - it's not better than pagination. Can you please elaborate on that?
Thank man!
If i have page with target keyword EX: buy mobile
And only use buy mobile anchor this is a pelalized and losed ranking?
Good Nyc
Should the categories be set to index or no index when using WordPress categories for silo
Would you link from the detail article always back to the silo?
Hi Gael, Thanks for these amazing tips. I have a quick question.
I have recently launched a site just last week. Few posts are already indexed. Can I change the site architecture now? Or will it be a problem? Please let me know your thoughts on this.
Great video. May I ask, I have a content site with 120 pages. I use RankMath, when I started building the site I utilised the 'strip category base' option, so although I do have categories, they are not in the urls. I thought this would help by having shorter url's on my posts & pages. Do you think this was a bad idea? Perhaps it would have helped if I left the category names in there?
We use that option too on our site together with perms links setting postname. I like it because it allows you to recategorize things later which hard silos don’t allow.
@@AuthorityHacker I was just wondering about this because soft silos was not mentioned so I wondered, are you now instead recommending hard silos as the best method? Way back I followed your advice to make virtual silos, (soft silos) with permalinks. Please confirm if you are recommending the methods in video as the best option or should i stick to my soft silo permalink structure? Using elementor pro & Rankmath Pro.
I tried creating a page for one of my categories and redirect the category to the page - this works for the category page, but for all the posts within the category they now point to the category name? My Category is called network-automation, so I created a page called network-automation, then I rename the category page to network-automation-cat and redirected this to network-automation page - which works, but all posts, are now in network-automation-cat category? What am I doing wrong?
Nothing is wrong. I would suggest you just change the name to something slightly different as of course the name of the category will be shown in breadcrumbs etc
Can I apply this structure on single product niche site. Like microwave oven?
Do you use any specific tool to visualize the silo structure?
12:45 what is the meaning of “anko text” sorry for not knowing the exact word but that’s what i’m hearing.
Anchor text
is it fine if your whole site is based on soft silos? both info and commercial articles? in terms of ranking?
Yep, totally fine. Soft silos is the posts + category method I mention in the video
@@AuthorityHacker thank you
Still not clear how u will handle hard silo in wordpress.
Hey guys I've got a question
I've found a niche that has a lot of kw with very high cpc and very little competition. So this potentially mean that display ads pays very well right?
what type of content I can create if the search intent of various kw I found is pointing at local businesses ?
Helpful video. But I’ve a question. What if a product fits into multiple categories? Let’s say I have a “keyboard” and “mouse” section. I’m reviewing a new kind of product that’s both keyboard and mouse. Or I’m reviewing best combos for gaming. Where do I stick that?
If you are using soft silos and your category isn’t in your URL you could easily link to it from both the keyboard and mouse hub pages in a “combo” sub section.
@@AuthorityHacker Does it matter if the category is in the URL or not?
Do you just place your money articles into silos or do you place info articles in there too? seems that you just use this silo structure for review articles. Also whats your thoughts on using a silo structure and have the home page displaying articles - that ok? Thanks
You can either do Silos by topic (commercial + info in same silo) or by content type (reviews, guide etc) and then you split them. Both work, just stick to what you started with!
WOW..my brain imploded, don't get 30% if it, (will watch again) but somehow, it seems you become the spider at the centre of the WEB...you know that web next to the street light...much munch.
Are you the Yukon of warriorforum?
The most important part of the video is at 8:38
Wow!!! I thought I spoke fast......!!!!
Great info but spoke waaaayyyyy to fast buddy.
Hey! I have a question, it would be awesome if somebody could help me.
Which way of creating your web structure is the best?
1. You have a big category in your authority site e.g. computers and then you want to make it more concrete so you create more categories such as desktops / laptops / etc. Then in those categories you link to your main content pieces that link to secondary content. This is very organized but it takes 4+ clicks to reach the smallest pieces of content.
2. Everything is the same, however you do not make the sub-category for desktops / laptops / etc. But you just link to those main pieces of content in your category page "computers" This would also be quite organized, however, the spread of distribution of link juice would go very widely.
What to do in such sifuation
It depends on the site of your site. Do solution 2 while you are smaller and as you grow, build more sub hubs.
@@AuthorityHacker I plan to write more than 50 articles on one category. Wouldn't your solution cause some problems later on putting those articles under those sub-categories instead of the main category?
@@domantasvanagas6911 Hi did you figure out, I have the same problem?
@@fahadhafeez8086 It is a very complex thing, so I will not answer here, however, the most important thing IMO you need to keep in mind is the intent and potential cannibalization. So, what you need to make sure is if an article should consist of 2 similar keyword in an article ir should be 2 separate articles.
You can check that by typing in the keywords into Google and see what SERPs do you get. If 70% of the SERP matches in both keywords, write 1 article consisting of both of those keywords. If the SERP is different, write 2 separate ones.
Afterwards, is internal linking game, which I have not yet mastered.
you have such a beautiful and kind eyes
Please slow down when you present. Some people struggle to understand you.
save
Something tells me google knows how to navigate wordpress category pages.
Edit: authority hacker just schooled me!
Also you can just search the desired keyword to internal link by typing it in under the search bar with-in ‘posts’ in wordpress... works similarly ; )
Wordpress search is really quite bad, Google will find keywords that are synonyms etc, Wordpress won’t
Yeah they do know how to use them or the internet would be a mess, but from a page rank perspective, you are wasting a lot of “links juice” on numbered category pages which can be avoided with a proper hub page.
@@AuthorityHacker interesting! That does make sense. Hmm
@@AuthorityHacker this is a good point, i suppose it works for me and my smaller site of sub 500 posts
Do you make any videos in French? Is there a big AM community there?
No, France excommunicated me so I'm stuck with the English market. But there is a decent online marketing community in France.
@@AuthorityHacker you must have been naughty lol
What the hell, did you change your uploading schedule?
Me: tries to make more value oriented videos not just podcast
People: WTF You posted it at the wrong time 😡
Just kidding, we are just mixing things up a bit :D
Sorry for being accidentally rude, i just liked to join the premere.
Haha no worries it made me smile :). There's a podcast on Monday at the usual time with a premiere!
What to do if you have 140 plus sub topics
Then you have a big site or you should make 2-3 levels.
@@AuthorityHacker i have 1000 articles and these fall in 6 category
the content is really great on this video but i suggest to put on subtitle into it. No offense but there are lot of times when i don''t really understand what you are saying by the way you pronounce some words and almost lost interest on continuing to watch the whole video.
Please don't speak sooo fasttt 🙏😅
I am having trouble understanding his accent this guy should speak Little slowly
Me too
speak slow with your accent
Bro... Slow TF down. I feel like you know what you're talking about but your accent is thick. This is a very specific topic so I appreciate your expertise but youre talking too fast.
Waste of time
I'm not sure this video is relevant anymore or ever was? If you design pages you will need to create hub pages which is a lot of work as apposed to dynamic archive/category pages. 10 posts per archive page is a good number besides you can increase this number easily with a few clicks in WP. Use category pages, Google knows how these work and does not require lots of text to rank them. For link juice you simply link down through the silo from within the body text of each page and back up again. Realistically you only need one link per page to spread link juice.
the problem with post grids is they create not 1 but multiple links per entry with shitty anchor text and those pages have 0 unique content. You can solve all these issues by creating your own hub pages.
@@AuthorityHacker I get what you're saying but Google knows how WordPress works, the vast majority of bloggers use archive pages, and some make good money regardless. WP pagination is crap but each archive page is still indexable even if full of excerpts. Check out Miles Becklers blog pages... clean and simple. One option is to create a unique page and shortcode latest blogs to appear below. If it were a major problem why haven't automatic fixed it?