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Is there a disadvantage to limiting each category page to 10 articles in Wordpress?
For example, if I have 30 articles in 1 category, when the visitor clicks to that category they get 10 articles and then a 'Previous Entries' to the previous 10, and then another for the 10 before that.
Is this bad for PR/SEO/Indexing in Google?
Would it be better to keep each category allowing up to 100 articles so that the site isn't so deep?
Is it just a case of building PageRank for better indexing? Currently Google will not index more than 10 pages of my site. It's around 3 months old after I aquired the domain, put a site up and had it officially reincluded in to the Google index.
I'm wondering if increasing the number of links on the category pages will ensure more of my posts are indexed, or if it's ok having 3-4 pages with 10 posts on each.
Your input is appreciated.
Regards,
Pete
I'd say that you are right - it's mostly a question of the relatively young age of your site and the low PageRank (limits deep spidering). There's nothing wrong with going up to 100 links per page, and it might be more user friendly, too. But with out some backlinks and a little more history, it's not likely to get you deep spidering.
You may also be interested in this thread - it's relatively old now, but still has plenty of food for thought about Wordpress:
WordPress And Google: Avoiding Duplicate Content Issues [webmasterworld.com]
