I'm creating a very large e-commerce site that's expected to eventually have tens of thousands, perhaps more, entries. It is for an industry that is heavily categorized, but every supplier has totally different categories, so they effectively become meaningless. So we're going to put it all together without categories, or at least without a category tree model. It's search engine only, baby. All those former categories are now keywords, effectively allowing one item to be in dozens of categories.
I'm worried about how sites like Google will index ours. Even if Google is a tree-free structure, they seem to depend on trees to find their way around a site. Without any hard links, are the spiders going to say "oops, there's only one page to this site" and move on? I'm assuming they're not smart enough to do searches within the site's engine. Do we create a few hundred likely searches and submit that to Google as a map? Do we develop some kind of bridge like eBay does so a Google search turns up keyword items? The client ain't rich and I ain't an SEO expert... yet... So any help is appreciated. Thanks! Den ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
