Garrett
04-05-2004, 05:26 PM
How big are your web pages? If you're creating especially long, text-heavy pages you might consider breaking up your site into smaller pieces. Into 100k size pieces to be exact, according to GoogleGuy.
Mark Carey reported that GoogleGuy said (http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/google-indexed-first-101k-of-a-document.html), "we'll typically index the first 101K of a web page -- in practice, more content of a page can be indexed (e.g. PDFs), but if you keep your main content under 100K or so, that's the safest.
Remember that Google's not indexing your images (well, they are, but not in the same index as their web pages), so a page that's over 100k is enormous.
If your pages run over 100k without images you should find a way to break them up some. There's a good chance they're hard for your site visitors to navigate anyhow.
If you absolutely have to have more than 100k on a page, make sure the indexibles are above the 100k line.
Mark Carey reported that GoogleGuy said (http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/google-indexed-first-101k-of-a-document.html), "we'll typically index the first 101K of a web page -- in practice, more content of a page can be indexed (e.g. PDFs), but if you keep your main content under 100K or so, that's the safest.
Remember that Google's not indexing your images (well, they are, but not in the same index as their web pages), so a page that's over 100k is enormous.
If your pages run over 100k without images you should find a way to break them up some. There's a good chance they're hard for your site visitors to navigate anyhow.
If you absolutely have to have more than 100k on a page, make sure the indexibles are above the 100k line.