What is website navigation?

[jesicawillss]

I want to know about the website navigation. Anyone here to tell me the what is website navigation? Which is the effective website navigation for search engines?

[Nile Hadwards]

According to me Website navigation refers to links on every page of your website that are constantly present to guide the visitor in browsing all the pages of the website. The most common are website menus that are seen at the header part of the website or commonly known as tabs (home, about, services, contact), footer links, bread crumbs, and sitemap. having all these is the best technique for search engines.

[Ussulo]

hiii,
Web site navigation is the science and skill which you apply to a web site that helps visitors move from one page to another.

[alexbaker]

Website navigation is a path to arrive from one webpage to another on the website. It is helping the visitors and search engine to travel fast and easy on the web. It creates the possibilities fast indexing over the internet. Generally sitemap and menu these two elements are put for navigation on the website by webmasters.

[hooda]

Navigation of the website is the process of link structure, each and every page inter connect each other, if user visits website then there should be hierarchy of link by which user can explore your website with one page to another without reopening of any page.
Navigational or link structure of website should be best.

[Phil Comforthost]

I'm not sure if there is one website navigation plan over any other which is more 'effective' for search engines - but what is useful is to tell them which pages exist on your website by submitting a sitemap - there is information and advice on Google Webmaster Tools on how to do this.

For people/customers it is very important to create a logical and easy-to-navigate website - otherwise people/customers go to your competitors! So a navigation plan is very important, think 'user experience'. If you have lots of pages, products, etc, make sure it is easy to find your way around them all without getting lost. An onpage sitemap can also help your customers, or a breadcrumbs trail at top of page for example.

[janejackson87]

Navigation on a web site is achieved by a collection of links that form the Web Site Navigation Menu or the Web Site Navigation Bar.

[royking]

As of me website navigation is the method through which we can go from one page to another on our own site. there are different methods of web site navigation like horizontal, vertical or both used at the same time.the method used in sites should be easy to use.

[AllenSantiago]

As other members explained about navigation is very true and the main thing is website navigation need to be user friendly and search engine friendly so it will be helpful in both ways from the user and search engine point of view, so once the visitors/users land to the website they will found all require links and information very easily and feel comfortable in exploring the website in detail.

[andyf]

Website navigation is the process of moving from one web page to another. Website navigation can be vertical or horizontal depending on the layout of the website. I would also like to highlight five basic rules for efficient website navigation :

* Use easy and obvious section names
* Don t make it too complicated, less is more
* Consistency in navigation is important
* Remind the user where they are

[EliseBlanchett]

there are lots of navigation styles and all of them have some advantages and limitations over others.
for example
Yahoo-style

Pros: The entire site structure is spelled out in the menus, so users can see everything at once. The user can click directly on the target link, without having to select the link from a sub-menu or interim menu-like page.

Cons: This method takes up lots of screen real estate, and requires vertical scrolling to see the entire menu, which ends up "below the fold," even when the browser window is maximized.

[Jagbani]

Website navigation is the the most important for the website.In the Navigation we use the links and advertisement for any website information.

[handatravel]

Website navigation helps visitors to know about the website pages...

[cipl123]

As per my view the thing which helps the visitor to navigate from one page to another is called website navigation. The good navigation structure of your website will help your visitors to navigate properly and to the exact page where they wanted to reach and good navigation structure is a part of SEO as well.

[coinmogul]

I want to know about the website navigation. Anyone here to tell me the what is website navigation? Which is the effective website navigation for search engines?

Navigation is the source or medium through which you can visit other pages of website

[inspirations]

i didn't knew about this term prior. Really useful infor

[marknel]

Organizing your web content in order to help your visitors find answers with ease and simplicity is website navigation.This is a crucial part of web designing.Drop down menus ,buttons with apt names under relevant categories is part of the process of making the navigation efficient.

[rosycute]

In Website navigation is through home page you navigate another page of website .If navigation of one page to another page take time it mean navigational url is not working properly.

[expertwebmaster]

If you are running a forum, then breadcrumb navigation is would be best navigation type for your, if is website, then pop-down menu with contextual linking is best.

[adam456]

Thanks all
I think Ussulu's answer is very simple and every body can understand it very easily .

[RezwanKabir]

Web site navigation is the science and skill which you apply to a web site that helps visitors move from one page to another.

[bardy]

Website navigation is just like index which helps user and also search engine and show way inorder to move from one page to another. Its plays an important part as if navigation is not proper then user might not get to reach at that place where he want to visit.

[BiologyWebmaster]

Website Navigation is something in which I'm placing my full focus on as a webmaster. Your internal link structure is what makes your website navigation. Website Navigation is nothing fancy or a new fad, Website Navigation simply means how you, the webmaster, are making navigational paths and using internal links as a way of allowing your site visitors to easily navigate, or move around, through your different webpages.

Keep in mind that Website Navigation is also crucial for Search Engine Optimization, all navigation links found on your site will be crawled by search engine spiders as well as your site visitors.

I hope this helps!

Much Thanks,

BiologyWebmaster

[liza78]

It is the pathway which helps people to move from one page to another page easily.