The use of subcats, and sub-subcats....

[vkaryl]

Little philosophical question here: due to my anal need to organize to a fare-thee-well, I tend to want to sub-subcategorize. Of course, sub-subcats don't show up on the index.

For instance, I have SeeSouthernUtah! at the top of the category tree, then I have Destinations as the subcat, and under that I have Entertainment which includes Theatre, Concerts, etc; and Outdoors which includes Hunting and Fishing, Camping and Picnicking, and so on.

Now this setup satisfies my "neatnik nitnoid" attitudes, but is this a bad thing? Should I loosen up my organizational habits? Anyone have any thoughts about this?

[Jim_Westergren]

It is fine but I recommend not too many empty cats and have a link to your sitemap in the footer on each in page in which you have a link to all the cats and their subpages, like that you ensure their SE spidering.

[kickass]

Great Advice Jim! Now, to add that to the list of nitpicky little jobs to do on my own site . . . I think it's number 742 . . . would the googly sitemap thingy pick up on this? If you have it cronjobbed?

[Jim_Westergren]

Hi Kickass,

Nice you liked the idea - basic SEO actually.

Now sometimes these site map genarators goes crazy on this PHP LD and starts to generate 10 000 URLs when you only have 200.

I am using a software for free from sitemapbuilder.net that generates the Google site map and there is an option to get the links as HTML as well.

Then I have another program that search and replace code to make a proper list of URLs.

To only list the URLs with the cats and cats subpages you need to delete any URL that contains the following elements:

?s=P>
?s=H
?s=A
submit.php
index.php?p=d
index.php?p=h
PHPSESSID
rss.php

Then you reduce the URLs to about half as the ones with sorting alphabetical, by hits etc. are not so important.

I can do it for you providing I get two links in that sitemap to my sites, deal?

I can get it done now.

[Jim_Westergren]

Hi Kickass :D

I did the job for you!


Here you have for download the Google Sitemap with your 231 URLs:
http://www.jw-webbdesign.se/kickass/sitemap.xml

Here are the handfiltered 76 URLs that are your cats and subcats in an HTML file to use for a sitemap:
http://www.jw-webbdesign.se/kickass/sitemap.html

I made two links at the end there also but if you don't like that I can have them there, then well. Fine.

Good luck!

[kickass]

Thanks, Jim!