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I like to create silo based website that can avoid theme bleeding as mentioned in "The Master Plan". According to their research, URLs that have directories (as themes) fare higher in SERPs.

For example:

http://www.domain.com/newcar/mercedes.html

fare better than

http://www.domain.com/mercedes.html

The directory /newcar/ is a silo (theme). You can have many articles in this silo. Then another silo /sportcar/ where more articles on sport cars and so on.

More detail from these sites:

http://www.seo2020.com/lsi/silo-structured-website.html
http://www.themematic.com/

Even this "Rapid Niche Website" modifies Wordpress and turns it into a silo structured website: http://www.rapidnichewebsites.com/

Of course, you can still build VIRTUAL silo structured website where all the files are in 1 directory and only the internal links are silo structured. The existing version of Xsp can do this. Given a choice I would like to create a REAL silo and not the VIRTUAL one.

Therefore, I would like Xsp to have this feature where you can create directories (folders) and save files into them.

I hope XsitePro developers could study the "The Master Plan" from the seo2020.com and incorporate the silo features into Xsp v2.

Here is another silo site:

http://www.silopublisher.com/

Regards
Bilmer

While I am sure they will implement new techniques, XsitePro has been fantastic for me as far as SEO. NONE of my sites rank less than 95% in SEO optimization. I don't think I would want more as the engines would consider that a negative. You can pretty much silo yourself anyway. I think the seo and meta functions are fine. Keep up the good work on that end Paul as you create 2.0!

You can already do this. XSP calls them websites rather than directories but the principle is exactly the same and works in just the same way. It's been a feature long before the Master Plan became the new gospel.

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Michael
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I tried your suggestion. I created a project and in this project I created 5 "websites". One website acts as a "homepage" and the other 4 as silo websites.

On the Left Panel of this homepage are supposed to be the links (anchor texts) to the other 4 "websites".

But I can't link the links in the left panel of the homepage to the other 4 websites in the project because Xsp does not allow us to access the source code of the Left panel.

I find that creating silo website using "websites" is impossible. Unless in v2 they allow us to access the source code of the Left Panel (and Right Panel as well) and better still if they also allow us to creates directories.

Regards
Bilmer

Bilmer, you simply make the links using the 'external link' feature, which gives you a dynamic link that is far more valuable than the usual internal ones.

Far from being impossible, that is exactly how my website is set up.

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Michael
Make your backlinks relevant and one-way
http://beam.to/neurolinker

Well, I tried that and it worked. I was just not aware of that hidden feature.
Anyway thanks.

I am confused on how you guys made this happen. Let me see if I got this correct. I make a project in the selection tree. Lets call it "My Project". Now under "My Project" I add say 3 websites.

1- Main Site
2- page A
3- page B

I'm assuming I right click the text or image I want to link and select "Insert link to another page in XSitePro". It wont let me select OK. Do all these websites need their own domain? How do I set this up. I'm going crazy.

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Jiggy, forget this and follow me:

Create a project.

Under project create a website, then another website, then another website.

Upload website1 to your domain http:mydomain.com

Create a directory called http:mydomain.com/website2 and upload your second website to it.

Do the same with any subsequent websites, just put them in their own folders. Link them using the 'external link' feature.

Please note that this really only works for themed websites, so you might have a main site called 'Fishing' and then a series of others called 'fishing rods, fishing reels, lures and so on.

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Best Wishes
Michael
Make your backlinks relevant and one-way
http://beam.to/neurolinker

How do I upload the website to the directory? I assume I have to mess with the publishing details. What do I put where?

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I got it. This is great. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks

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If anyone is interested, I'm about to release a tool that automates all this.

I'm calling it "XSite Directory Manager".

I'm a little late in getting it out, but further details about it can be seen in this thread.

http://xsitepro.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=3317

John

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XSitePro V2 might just have siloing built in

Hello Everyone,

I just finished "Easy Directory Manager".

You can read all about it in this post.

http://xsitepro.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=7295

Have a great day.

John

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