Creating Content

worried about overloading my site

[Event_King]

Hi,

I'm a bit worried about overloading my site with too much content. Is it possible to be penalised by some SE's. It's just many of my pages don't get picked up, and I'm a bit concerned that if I add more, what do I do if it don't get indexed. I would have wasted cash on creating new site areas etc.

What are the reasons for certain pages not being indexed? Non-PR page? Non listable pages?

Any ideas.....

[hunderdown]

How can you possibly overload your site with too much content? Are you repeating yourself? Or saying the same thing in only slightly different ways? Is the content poorly organized?

I would suggest taking the time to look at your site from the point of view of a visitor. Not from the point of view of a SE. Can they find the information they want? If they can't, why not?

I recently reorganized my site by adding a number of sub-category pages, to make browsing for an article easier. Traffic is up significantly, and I am concluding that the SEs like what I did for human visitors.....

[danthewhaler]

Like the previous poster said, can't see how a SE would penalise you directly. It might dilute particular keywords if they're what you're chasing specifically, but that's not a penalty as such.

I do see some webpages that are overlong with dense small text and I have to use the Google Toolbar to find what I'm looking for - many surfers wouldn't do that or even know they could. So you could penalise yourself by having too much difficult to read content and making navigation and layout a pain.

As a rule of thumb, I don't have any content pages longer than about the real-world equivalent of 2 sides of A4, if they get bigger than that I split them and spin off another page.