{"id":38,"date":"2008-11-15T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/15\/improper-reliance-on-the-search-box\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T20:05:39","slug":"improper-reliance-on-the-search-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/improper-reliance-on-the-search-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Improper Reliance On The Search Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>User dependency on the search box is very high; search boxes enable users to easily find the targeted information that they want in a short period of time.\u00c2\u00a0 The search box is no longer limited to Google and other search engines as many websites now employ the search box as a method for visitors to find the content that interests them.\u00c2\u00a0 The search box provides a better user experience for the visitor as they can find information in a timely manner, but from a webmaster&#8217;s point of view it can lead to some issues.\u00c2\u00a0 The search box itself will not hurt your website when it comes to search engine optimization, but improper reliance on the search box can lead to deep linking.\u00c2\u00a0 It is extremely important to avoid deep linking from a seo perspective as all webpages should be accessible within a few clicks (3 should be considered the maximum).\u00c2\u00a0 The reason for this is because search engine spiders crawl webpages through links and if many of your webpages are deep linked, then the search engine spider is unlikely to crawl these pages and index them.\u00c2\u00a0 This can have a serious impact on your website when it comes to search engine optimization.\u00c2\u00a0 Use the search box to give visitors a better user experience, but avoid relying on the search box too much when it comes to deep linking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User dependency on the search box is very high; search boxes enable users to easily find the targeted information that they want in a short period of time.\u00c2\u00a0 The search box is no longer limited to Google and other search engines as many websites now employ the search box as a method for visitors to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,25],"tags":[76,75,27,26],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-deep-linking","tag-search-box","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}