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A few examples of how site search can help you improve your website navigation: Find top search terms that visitors are trying, but that have no pages or products – these are likely great products to stock, or pages to create. Find the phrases visitors are typing to get to existing content – are they using different terminology?
The burger menu is a tried and tested technique to condense navigation into just one small, easy-to-place element. Burger menus are an acceptable way for many websites to condense a large navigation system on mobile devices, but it’s hard to understand the justification for using such a technique on desktop websites.
What’s the purpose of navigation on a website?
Website navigation (a.k.a., internal link architecture) are the links within your website that connect your pages. The primary purpose of website navigation is to help users easily find stuff on your site. Search engines use your website navigation to discover and index new pages.
How is navigation used by a search engine?
Search engines use your website navigation to discover and index new pages. Links help search engines to understand the content and context of the destination page, as well as the relationships between pages. Users come first. This is the underlying objective of website navigation you must always remember. Satisfy users first. Make navigation easy.
Utilizing content hierarchies organizes pages of a website in a way that makes sense to the user and the search engine. The categorization and sub-categorization of content help pages improve in rank for general head terms and for specific long-tail terms.
Many websites also use breadcrumbs. These are hierarchical navigation links that appear on a specific page. They tell you how that page is nested within other pages. You can see breadcrumbs on the Crazy Egg blog: Above, the unlinked page name tells you where you are.
Page-specific content will go here… –> TODO: Menu will go here… A master page defines both the static page layout and the regions that can be edited by the ASP.NET pages that use the master page.
How does site navigation work in Microsoft Docs?
The site navigation system provides both a mechanism for page developers to define a site map and an API for that site map to be programmatically queried. The new navigation Web controls the Menu, TreeView, and SiteMapPath make it easy to render all or part of the site map in a common navigation user interface element.