Silo Index Page HTML Tab
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*Note:  The Silo Index Page HTML is the code used to generate the root page of each Silo on your site.  For example, if your domain root (home page) of your site is 'http://www.coffeepodsgalore.com', and you have a Silo named 'Coffee Pod Machines', when your site visitor navigates from the home page of your site to your Silo 'Coffee Pod Machines', the URL of the root page of your Silo is 'http://www.coffeepodsgalore.com/Coffee-Pod-Machines/index.html (if you have selected 'Full Path' or 'Hybrid' and '.html' in the Theme Details - File Structure tab - this root page URL of your Silo will be different if you selected the 'Virtual' option and will instead be 'http://www.coffeepodsgalore.com/Coffee-Pod-Machines.html).



1) Click the 'Silo Index Page HTML' tab and paste in your template's Silo IndexPage HTML:





2) Modify your template so the Silo Index Page Tokens (right side) appear in your template in the appropriate spot.


For example, the %%SILOKEYWORD%% token should appear in your Silo Index Page's <title> tag, and the %%KEYWORDS%% token should appear in your META-keywords tag.


*Note:  As a rule of thumb, you want the %%SILOKEYWORD%% token to also appear in the body of your page content, preferable inside a <h1> tag. 


** Special Note about HTML Template Code and ThemeMatic Tokens in the Silo Index Page HTML:  The %%SILONAVMENU%% and %%ARTICLELINKSMENU%% tokens will have HTML code substituted in your template as values of an unordered list.  This means you need to have an enclosing '<ul>' tag before these tokens, and ending '</ul>' tag after these tokens for well-formed HTML (see the supplied ThemeMatic templates for examples of this).  The above tokens will produce the required opening '<li>' tag and closing '</li>' tag surrounding the page links for the navigation menus produced by the above tokens.


Also, the above menu tokens automatically insert 'rel=nofollow' code in the appropriate links that these menu tokens produce. 


Specifically, the %%SILONAVMENU%% inserts 'rel=nofollow' code for the all the links back to the Home Page of your site and to the Silo Index Pages of your site.


The %%ARTICLELINKSMENU% token has 'rel=nofollow' code for all but the first Article in the given Silo (the first Article in your Silo has NO 'rel=nofollow' code inserted).


This use of 'rel=nofollow' code for the above links on pages of your site forces the search engines to navigate and index your site in a way that builds Theme relevance and Theme density, and prevents Theme bleeding.  For more information, download the free report at:


http://www.themematic.com/themasterplanprimer.pdf