dataguy - 10:21 pm on Jul 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

For instance he may not need to break down a category even if it was Shopping if he only has 15 listings in there.

This is definately not the issue as I have nearly 350,000 URL's listed, and 15,000 under shopping. As I said, this is a large directory.

It only lists categories when there are listings found in them, so there is no chance of happening onto a stub. It also breaks down the listings by parent category / sub-category and Country / State-Province / City so each listing has the potential to be listed under 11 headings.

I think I have some pretty cool innovations which I haven't seen anyone else try, but I just can't seem to get a handle on the categories, which is of course of the utmost importance in a directory.

I'm still working on parsing out my category list...

[edited by: dataguy at 10:35 pm (utc) on July 31, 2007]