I'm in the process of building a travel site which will have about 100 pages of content and will hopefully grow in the future. This is my first site. In planning for the future I can see a potential problem arising if I redesign the site and external links to my site become broken. Broken links mean lost traffic and page rank. Can anyone with experience in this area offer some opinions or suggestions on how I should plan/manage taxonomy so that it is flexible for the future? Any advice on common mistakes, do's and don'ts, things you'd differently if you had your time again etc would also be enlightening. thanks in advance gavin
Its good to see you have foresight. When I first experimenting with taxonomy I created too many sections. Too many sections meant more work. When planning your sections, keep them broad enough to cover a certain subject but not broad enough to cover everything you would post. Surf around similar websites and try to imitate what they did with their taxonomies. Remember the KISS principle.
Thanks, The planning thing means that the launch of my site has been delayed a bit but I want things to be easier in the future not harder. My tec friend has also convinced me that a CMS (drupal) will make life easier in the future although it means more work upfront. I don't really understand it all at the moment but I can see drupal can be powerful once you've learnt it.