How To Plan Site Structure Designed To Rank Money Pages
A practical guide to planning site architecture, building money pages, and creating a structure that ranks and converts. 1. Start With Your Homepage Every crawler starts on your homepage. It is always the most important page on your site. When your homepage gets links from other websites, that link equity flows to the pages it links to. So your homepage becomes the engine that powers all rankings across your site. If you want a page to rank, make sure it is linked directly from your homepage or from other strong top level pages. The closer a page is to your homepage, the better its chance of ranking. --- 2. Study Competitors To See What Works Before mapping anything, look closely at the top ranking websites in your niche. They have already figured out which landing pages bring in traffic and conversions. Most high ranking sites: - Link heavily from the homepage to their money pages - Use keyword focused landing pages like AI video editor or text to video - Use navigation menus to highlight their top pages - Include secondary pages in the footer, like templates or additional tools You are looking for patterns. Generator pages, maker pages, tools, templates, solutions, effects, and other repeatable page types. --- 3. Understand Link Juice and PageRank Sites with large numbers of referring domains usually dominate. Many of those links point straight to the homepage. This makes the homepage the most powerful page and your biggest source of link equity. Your job is to direct that link equity to the pages you want to rank. --- 4. Map Out Your Main Pages Start with your homepage, then create categories of landing pages. If you are building an AI video tool site, the categories might look like: - Generators - Tools - Solutions - Templates - Effects Under each category, add specific landing pages you plan to build. These are your high converting, bottom of funnel money pages. --- 5. Use GlooMaps To Visualize It