Optimizing a Large Web Site
Most of us are running small sites with maybe a few hundred pages. Some are running sites with a coupel of thousand pages and a few of us have sites with hundreds of thousands of pages.
The issues connected with optimising these larger sites are not entirely the same as for the smaller ones as we sometimes find from forum posts.
Today I read an article from WebPro News which starts to explore some of the issues and solutions. I'd suggest a shufti at the comments as well as the main article. Perhaps the article may give some ideas for those of us facing large site challenges.
The two biggest takeaways for me were the use of tiering – placing search terms in order of priority to enable a manageable workload and secondly the use of XML sitemaps to aid the indexing process. My experience has been that getting pages indexed at all is oneof the toughest challenges and using XML sitemaps may be a way forward in providing a partial solution in an automated form.
Filed under Ideas and Tips by on Dec 2nd, 2008. 
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