IMHO one of the hallmarks of good site architecture is ease of crawlability. For those of you in the back row, that means keeping everything no more than 2 or 3 levels (clicks) from any other page or the homepage. Wordpress by default displays however many posts you selected to display on the homepage in every archive category, unless you are green pixel monster that’s just some bad mojo. After poking around I found the custom query string plug-in. It let’s you configure different levels for each category, setting, or dozens of other subdivisions. Why you wouldn’t want to display them all is beyond me, but hey at least you can set it so high (99,999) it won’t ever be an issue again. Go forth and increase your crawlability.
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thanks dude, extremely useful..
Doh – and decrease your usability! Yea it happens to us SEOs, we do stuff for our beloved botties without keeping the human visitors in mind very often – I am often guilty of it myself – but imagine loading a page with 99,999 posts on it??? And navigating through it??? Gosh, even the bots will get lost in a page that long! I find interlinking posts and listing related posts (like you do) a better solution for crawlability…
people? you design sites for people? Ideally the best solution would be to cloak and display the 99,999 only for the bots and give the people something much more manageable. WebGuerilla is working on something he said he will release, so lets see if he’ll have a more elegant solution.
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