How to check a website's architecture?

[MTalhaImtiaz]

Hello everyone,

I am an SEO analyst - a good one - but I am weak in technical aspects. I do not know any programming and only a little HTML. I know this is a major weakness for an SEO so my first request to you all is to guide me how to learn HTML and some basic PHP programming.

Secondly... about the topic of this particular question - I know that a website should have a flat architecture... but I do not know how to find out if a website's architecture is flat or not, good or bad.

Please help me out on this... I would be obliged.

Eagerly awaiting your responses,

BEst Regards,

Talha

[josh-riley]

CodeAcademy also recently  introduced free online coding classes that you can check out - it may be a good way to apply the learnings from your readings.

It takes practice and dedication - and repetition - to learn coding. You have to train yourself to properly apply the code. HTML and CSS are the best places to start, then move onto PHP

http://www.codecademy.com/courses/html-one-o-one

[MTalhaImtiaz]

Thankyou Brendan

I appreciate your assistance brother

best regards,

talha

[jobintourism]

Hi Muhammad, I'm going to answer to the first question.

To start I suggest to read some books, where you can easily find anything you need from an expert, technical point of view. I really love books from O'reilly http://oreilly.com/css-html/index.html and from Manning http://www.manning.com/crowther2/ , but even those from Sitepoint are quite interesting http://products.sitepoint.com/ .

Then, while reading, build some website and try, try, try till the end of the days, because experience is very important in building correct html - css websites.

I don't think it's very important to learn php at the beginning, after your html books you could buy some about php.

[Confetti_Wedding]

Hi Muhammad,

This is in response to your second question. I would start by using a tool such as Xenu's Link Sleuth and run a report on your site. This will give you a report of how 'deep' pages are within your site ie. how far they are from your homepage.

As you might know, the general rule for most sites is to have all pages within 3 clicks of the homepage so this is a good way to judge the effectiveness of the site architecture.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.