Hey guys, I believe that every blogger should have a very detailed and informative archive page. If your blog doesn't have an archives page on it, you should really look into making one Archive pages have many benefits for your blog. For SEO purposes, and for getting your old posts recognized being the biggest 2 reasons to have one. I wrote a tutorial on my blog recently about how to create a really informative archives page you guys may want to check out. Let me know what you think!
yes an archieve page should have excerpts with atleast 40 words and bigger thumbnail images to give a appealing magazine look and let the readers get a good quick idea of what all is there so that he may feel compelled to click and read more. Bigger thumbnails and excerpts appeal the reader to click and read more.