say, pertaining to a specific niche, where things can be found down the a specific level. If the directory was categorized in such a way that each main category had the same sub cat structure, to keep it strict and specific to that particular main, would that be overkill? opinions please? Rob
I think a lot depends on content and usefulness and traffic. Having tons of categories that receive no traffic might be one way to define overkill.
I immediately think of DMOZ here. Obviously DMOZ is huge and has to have a ton of sub cats, but some are so deep I wonder if anyone ever finds them.
Thanks David for the reply. In terms of depth, The structure I'm particularly speaking of would only be about 4-5 deep per main category, but there would be aout 60-80 main categories. I think keeping a parallel type structure for main categories to sub catergories would be useful to the end user because when searching for something within another main category, they would already have the feel for how the directory is structured and works. what do you think?
Ok, so i've decided to skip out on what would have been a good night for me(i'll kick myself in the ass later for it), to get a sample going of what I mean. I'll post an example as soon as i can get it everything categorized corectly and uploaded. The site is currently in shambles, but I'm working on it slowly but surely. Then I guess as seeing an example, maybe others can give their perspective opinions as well. Rob edit: an as usual, i'll be putting phpld to the test with this again
Ok, here is an example of 2 main categories. broken down to the way i want the directory to be... and yes, the amoutn of categories/numbers you see are indeed correct. FSBO Home Real Estate - Directory Now, is it overkill or just a well structured directory, specific to its respective main category, detailing an efficient breadcrumb and outline on how the directory and each category runs? thoughts/opinions/something damnit! Rob
That is pretty deep But I actually like it from a seo point of view, to get some real targeted SE deeplinking hits. For the "human" browsing its to deep for me, but thats just a personal op.
I also think it works from an SEO point of view. I really like that you've insured that my listing isn't on a page with a couple hundred others. But I have to say that when I saw the category numbers at the bottom of the page, I damn near spilled my morning coffee.
Is that really too deep? ex. http://www.fsbohomerealestate.com/a...tments/california/orange-county/laguna-beach/ basically 4 sub categories off the main category which resides on the front page. so only 4 levels deeps, but accurately categorized. Main Cat -- Sub Cat --> State --> County --> City -->[source] Also, I wrote a deep link MOD for my directories. If you goto www.activeweblinks.com and surf 3 levels deep and then click on submit, take a look at the 'html' you need to copy for reciprocol. I think the categorization can be justified, but you gave me what I was looking for I definately needed some opinions on this because if i have something like 10-12 million cats up and running, it's not like I can just turn back and start over. but just imagine shold this particular project take on high PR on all of those pages. i'm trying to get it right from the start, which can really be a pain in the a**. Thanks for the feedback. Rob edit: hahaha PP, you definately gave me a much needed laugh after a long night To be honest with you, I had 2,580,000 running last month. I just wanted to wait for the upgrade, and I may switch over to more secure hosting, as dreamhost has quite a few losers running garbage scripts killing resources. (i have direct contact with them now though bwahahha) the site will probably be slow for most of the day as i hammer away at the db gettting the rest of the categories up there. i'm guessing if all goes accordingly, there will be about 3.2million and that is only for 6 main cats. there are roughly ...well.. alot more hahaha
Dude, your PHPLD is likely to come up with an error message, something like, "Uhh, I know you didn't!"
not to deep, but I wouldnt go much deeper though if you want the human eye and brain to follow along, and repeatiative keywords/content (google view). But I'd have to say it looks pretty sweet right now. Im sure you are gonna get some succes out of all you category work gl with it!
dreamhost will probably kill my process, but watch the categories slowly but surely, up up and away they'll go. (but seriously, don't even try to load the page, i have about 500,000 inserts running. god i love shell access ) Rob oh, dirfreak, i have another set of categories in the works as well. lots of em' too. those are non-locational. those are geared more for directory of miscellaneous, like awl. i also have finished a *real deal* regional. 45,000 + worldwide locations. (including the USA format you see on fsbo)
I wish I could URL map easy with ASP/VB.. 550k categories..hoho. I would certaintly instant kill my databases with that amount
hahaha dreamhost did in deed stop the run from earlier this morning. (bastards!) anywho... coming up on 1,000,000 categories within the next 5-10 minutes. the only thing slowing the site down now is the YPN ads. otherwise, it's pretty much 1 second clicks switch to get from category to category. Rob
I take it you will have to remove the category drop-menu in the submit page to get it too load for the submitter (well, for it to load in under a week).
nope. I wrote a deep link mod that takes care of it. www.activeweblinks.com actually has the MOD in it(check the submit page. no drop down ), there just aren't a million+ cats in there. If i did drop millions of cats into awl, it'd integrate seemlessly. Rob