How to organize your websites and projects

LinkStorm provides great flexibility for managing and organizing your websites. Whether you’re working on personal projects, handling client websites, or managing multiple sections of the same domain, LinkStorm’s structure allows you to organize your work in a way that makes the most sense for your workflow. Let’s explore the options available to help you optimize your setup.

1. Understanding Projects and Websites in LinkStorm

In LinkStorm, your work is organized into projects, and each project can contain multiple websites. This modular structure gives you complete freedom over how to manage different websites, domains, or sections of content.

Create Projects: You can create as many projects as needed. For example, if you’re an SEO consultant, you might want to create one project per client. This keeps all the relevant websites and data for each client separate, making management easier.
Add Websites to Projects: Within each project, you can add as many websites as necessary. This flexibility is useful if a client has multiple websites, or if you want to track different domains under one project umbrella.

Tip: Think of projects as containers that group related websites. By categorizing them this way, you keep everything more organized and focused, leading to better management and insights.

2. Organizing Websites by Sections or Subdomains

Another powerful feature of LinkStorm is the ability to add distinct sections of a website as separate entities within a project. This means you can break down a large website into more manageable parts based on subdomains or paths.

Sections by Path or Subdomain: For example, let’s say you have a website mywebsite.com with two major sections: /resources and /products. You can add these as separate websites in LinkStorm: mywebsite.com/resources and mywebsite.com/products.
Independent Link Suggestions: LinkStorm will treat these as separate websites, meaning the link suggestions will only apply within each section and not across them. This is helpful when different sections serve distinct purposes, and you prefer not to link them directly, ensuring a more focused internal linking strategy.

This approach is particularly useful for large websites with diverse content areas or when working with subdomains that need separate internal linking management, such as blog.mywebsite.com and shop.mywebsite.com.

3. Connecting Projects to Google Search Console (GSC)

When you want to enhance LinkStorm’s capabilities by integrating Google Search Console (GSC) data, keep the following in mind:

Project-Level GSC Integration: LinkStorm integrates with GSC at the project level, not the individual website level. This means that when you link a project to GSC, all the websites within that project should be covered by the same GSC account.
Requirements for Data Pulling: If you need GSC data for all the websites inside a project, make sure they belong to the same GSC account to successfully pull the data. This allows you to leverage performance data in link-building decisions across all your related websites.

Learn More: Read our article "How to Use GSC Data to Optimize Internal Linking" to understand the benefits of integrating GSC with LinkStorm and how it can inform your linking strategy.

4. Best Practices for Organizing Websites in LinkStorm

To make the most out of LinkStorm’s features, consider these best practices for organizing your websites:

Use Separate Projects for Clients: If you work with multiple clients, keeping each client’s websites in its own project helps avoid confusion and makes it easy to manage permissions, reporting, and performance tracking for each.
Break Large Websites into Sections: For larger domains, break the site into key sections (e.g., /blog, /products, /services) and add them as separate websites. This way, LinkStorm can provide more relevant internal linking suggestions within each specific section.
Centralize GSC Accounts: Ensure all websites under a project are accessible through the same GSC account. This keeps GSC integration smooth and allows you to access performance data for all your websites in one place.

Summary

Organizing your websites effectively in LinkStorm can significantly enhance your internal linking efforts and SEO results. By leveraging projects, breaking down large sites into distinct sections, and integrating GSC data at the project level, you can create a more structured and powerful approach to internal linking. With these organizational strategies, LinkStorm provides a more flexible, powerful way to manage your internal link optimization.