Over 10,000 page site structure

How to get all 3 levels deep

[JamaicanFood]

Hello suppose I have 10,000 pages to add how do I do this and keep at least 3 levels down from the home page.

So. www.example.com - article page - Articles.

Whats the best way to do it.

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[mack]

Using a pyramid structure for your site is always a good idea when you intend to grow your content.

Home page
www.example.com

from the homepage you have links to your topic pages.
www.example.com/topic

The topic page will have general information about the topic with link to yet more detailed info on specific area of the topic
www.example.com/topic/subtopic

The subtopic pae will ten link to articles and pages that are related to the subtopic, but are very specific to one very specific subject.
www.example.com/topic/subtopic/infopage.htm

Using a structure like this allows you to easily add new content when ever required, whilst retaining a logical site structure.

Mack.

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[Jim Catanich]

There are two points of view here. Ease of site design or maximize Google PR.

Ease of site design

On the home page you place 100 "topic" links pointing to 100 sub directories:

home
/topic1/
/topic2/
...
/topic100/

Now on each of "topic" directory index.html pages, you place 100 "sub-topic" links pointing to 100 sub-sub directories.

home
/topic1/
/topic1/subtopic1/
/topic1/subtopic2/
/topic1/subtopic3/
/topic1/subtopic4/
...
/topic2/
...
/topic100/

Now on each of the "subtopic"directory index.html pages, you place 10 recipe links.
(100/100/10) = 10,000 recipes.

and now place all 10,000 urls in a txt site map and Google will index it.

But...
The above does not maximize for Google PR. To do this, create a (12,100,85) scenario where:

the 12 topics link (i.e. texmex) to their associated 100 subtopics (ie.e Appetizers)
the 100 subtopics link to their associated 85 recipes

Then have the back links as followed:

the 85 recipes link to the root only (maximum PR) and/or link to their subtopic page only (no cross linking)

the 100 subtopic pages link back to the root only (maximum PR) and/or the subtopic's index page. (Again, no cross linking)

Just remember, Google wants a link count on a page to be around 100 (~120 max).

Then create a Google Site Map (txt type) with the "absoulte URL" of all the pages. This will help Google deep index the "full tree" of urls.

Hope this helps,

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[topr8]

>>Just remember, Google wants a link count on a page to be around 100

googleguy once said here that googlebot only followed the first 100 links on a page, there was never a claim that the ideal was 100 links on a page.

personally i feel sure that less (much less) than 100 links is better

[Jim Catanich]

I agree with you that Google wants the page links to be less. But in this scenario, the request was to do 10,000 pages within 3 levels(tiers). To do this he must minimize the top tier (topics) (the home page has other link requirements), then maximize the subtopics so that there is still room to add recipes to a subtopic.

Clean navigation of 10,000 pages that Google will index is hard to do. Sending someone off in the wrong direction will cost them time and a great deal of redesign.

As for a "best practice" recommendation, I haven’t see any. Have you? We tell our client to stay within the 60 range (internal and external) but that's for growth reasons only.

And the argument about Google can not index over 100 links that is BS. Google Site Map - the txt version, does this all the time. Last time I used it was over 4,000 links.

I believe Google for once has set a "best practice" level for one of the major design issues of large site navigation. Thank you Google.

Jim Catanich