twist - 4:10 pm on Jul 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

For example: Marine Life >Arthropods (phylum) > Crustaceans (class) > Decapoda (order) > Hippolytidae (family) > Lysmata Amboinensis (species)

I don't remember where I read this but I recall some search engines say the less levels the better, meaning they might not go past 4 or 5 levels deep. So if your website is like this,

www.example.com/1/2/3/4/5/6

the search engine may only index these pages,

www.example.com/1/2/3/4

I am not completely sure about this, maybe someone else will know more. I do recall someone on here saying that one way to deal with this problem is to combine variables. Lets say you have 100 types of arthropods, 300 crustaceans, and 500 decapoda. Your variable would look like this 035152235. 035 is the arthropods number. 152 is the crustacean number and 235 is the decapoda. It would allow you to use as many levels as you want and never be penalized (if it even is a penatly).

Setting up compression

Try something like "setting up gzip compression" in a search. Also try "compress css" if you want to compress that also. Compression can make your site more accessable to 56k users and save you bandwidth.