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Redesign - changes

I think my weblog is due for a major redesign.. this look is getting a bit old for me and I'm a person who needs constant change.. so I'll start working on that tonight (when I'm at home as opposed to at work waiting for weblogic to restart and a quick build to finish).

There is one thing in particular I would like to change and wish others would follow.. Mainly my archive sectioins.. right now I'm using the default style of archiving that Movable Type uses -- each archive (monthly, category, daily) is essentially a page with all the entries for that particular archive in their full-textual glory. I will be changing that to a relatively simple page of links to individual entries -- but provide some more information than just an entry title.. (category, date/time, perhaps keywords)..

The full text of each entry will have one place to live and one place only -- on their individual archive pages.. and of course on the main page when the entry is still fresh.

What's the point?

Google.

We all know how much google loves weblogs.. well that love extends to the archive pages and unfortunately that creates a massive misinformation base of searches.. Many of the searches that bring people to my weblog are a combination of words from several, unrelated entries combined together on one, long, lengthy archive page. The change to my archive pages ought to put a stop to that...

Posted by kasia on March 26, 2003 11:29 AM |

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That, in a nutshell, is one of the main reasons I did feedster. If you want we can see about feeding your archives into Feedster to have the full content be indexed.

Posted by: Scott Johnson | March 26, 2003 01:45 PM

Hmm. That's weird. Maybe Google should work on implementing a special mechanism for dealing with blogs as opposed to regular websites. Course that would make too much sense, except for the fact that there is no standard for how blogs are designed...

Posted by: Techie2000 | March 26, 2003 10:58 PM

There's a very simple algorithm google could use to fix the problem. But I'm not gonna tell 'em what it is quite yet...

Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny | March 26, 2003 11:41 PM