Q and A: What does this Google guideline mean?

Dear Kalena...

I am new to your blog and I enjoyed visiting it again today.
You have a new regular visitor.

Thanks for the link to the Google guidelines. I understood most of it but I would appreciate clarification of what they mean by both parts of the first guideline:

"Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links.
Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link."

(I do my own HTML. The site is very basic.)

Thanks,
Betsy

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Betsy

Thanks for the blog feedback, it's great to be reassured sometimes that people are actually reading this thing! Now to your question.

What Google means by that statement is that your site navigation structure (menu) should be straight-forward and each page should have at least one link pointing to it from within your site. The easiest way to achieve this is to create a site map with text links pointing to every page on your site. This is to enable Google to find and index all your pages and also to help visitors. Then you can put a link to your site map on your home page or within your navigation menu.

Hope this helps!

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