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is it better to brake a subject down into multiple pages, or is it best to keep as much relevant information as possible on one page?
As an example, if I had a page of maps from a certain place would it be best to make many different pages with subtopics (like "political maps", "cultural maps" etc), or is it best to keep all this kind of info in one page.
One of my concerns is that I might not have enough contect to add to each individual page (mostly heres is this map, here is that map)
any ideas?
thank you in advance
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I would limit content screens to two screens.
It keeps it clear for the visitor as well.
Often webmasters use bookmarks to help the user navigate through multiple screen webpages. If the visitor is somewhere deep down after clicking on a bookmark and clicks the regular "back", the visitor basically leaves the page.
Splitting content into sub-content webpages gives you the advantage of extra titles, headings and linktexts which should help the Googlebot and the Googlealgo focus on your main subjects. It can dilute Pagerank throughout your site though.
Just keep in mind that if you publish subcontent pages, you still keep all relevant wordings around those sub-topics on page. If you do not have enough relevant information to fill a page you are going too far..
