Using a silo structure is a white-hat strategy and won’t have any harmful effects on your website. As mentioned above, when we created an SEO silo structure for our website architecture, we never met any penalties but rather the opposite, a jump in rankings.
If you follow this guide and pick one of the silo structures we’ve listed above, you can be assured that no negative impacts will occur on your website. We encourage website owners to make use of a silo structure.
There are black-hat methods related to this subject, but just solely using a silo structure and internal linking to related pages is rewarded by the Google algorithm. Due to the success of this method, we have started to implement silo structures on all of our sites.
Just remember, only link to other pages when there is a natural link between the two pages, don’t force a link. Not only will this make your site look spammy to users, but it will make the crawlers have a harder time trying to crawl your entire website and spend most of your crawl budget.