Need Opinions From SEO Gurus

MadMax · 2005-02-22, 12:30 AM

This is kinda longwinded but it boils down to a simple question at the end.

When I first started Fetish Philes I had the site set up to display 50 links per page per category, i.e. the script would generate additional pages at 50 links each when cats had more than 50 links in them. I discontinued that a few months ago and decided to make each category one page, period.

The problem is that some of my cats now have several hundred links in them, and I'm trying to decide what to do from an SEO point of view on this. I don't really want the SEs to see my high submission categories as link farms so I'm considering breaking the cats back up into multiple pages. Plus, those cat pages are starting to get pretty weighty (some up to 190k) and I don't want to alienate my dialup surfers. I've also always heard that in general SEs tend to like bigger sites with more pages.

I also like to rotate how the links are sorted to give older links some fresh traffic from time to time. If I rotate the sorting on multiple pages, however, all the pages for a given cat will change every couple days and I honestly have no idea if that's a plus or minus from an SEO standpoint. Since Google is finally starting to give me some real love, I really don't want to fuck that up.

I use X Power Links, so in addition to everything above with multiple pages for a single cat I'll have my cat hard link trades displayed several times, and I don't know if that will dilute the value of my incoming links by essentially linking back to every link partner 4 or 5 times instead of just once.

So really I'm trying to figure out if breaking the cats back up into multiple pages is likely to fuck me.

TIA for any thoughts on the subject. I've been thinking this over for about a week now and frankly my head's about to explode

2005-02-22, 12:30 AM	#1
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Need Opinions From SEO Gurus This is kinda longwinded but it boils down to a simple question at the end. When I first started Fetish Philes I had the site set up to display 50 links per page per category, i.e. the script would generate additional pages at 50 links each when cats had more than 50 links in them. I discontinued that a few months ago and decided to make each category one page, period. The problem is that some of my cats now have several hundred links in them, and I'm trying to decide what to do from an SEO point of view on this. I don't really want the SEs to see my high submission categories as link farms so I'm considering breaking the cats back up into multiple pages. Plus, those cat pages are starting to get pretty weighty (some up to 190k) and I don't want to alienate my dialup surfers. I've also always heard that in general SEs tend to like bigger sites with more pages. I also like to rotate how the links are sorted to give older links some fresh traffic from time to time. If I rotate the sorting on multiple pages, however, all the pages for a given cat will change every couple days and I honestly have no idea if that's a plus or minus from an SEO standpoint. Since Google is finally starting to give me some real love, I really don't want to fuck that up. I use X Power Links, so in addition to everything above with multiple pages for a single cat I'll have my cat hard link trades displayed several times, and I don't know if that will dilute the value of my incoming links by essentially linking back to every link partner 4 or 5 times instead of just once. So really I'm trying to figure out if breaking the cats back up into multiple pages is likely to fuck me. TIA for any thoughts on the subject. I've been thinking this over for about a week now and frankly my head's about to explode