That's an interesting approach indeed. Thanks Niphlod :) Well, in the end my company hired a SEO consultant and our conclusion was that we need to build a drill-down navigation instead of one page containing the whole tree.
E.g. : *country* - administrative_area_level_1 - administrative_area_level_1 - ... Then if you click on any of the leaves : *administrative_area_level_1* - administrative_area_level_2 - administrative_area_level_2 - ... And so forth. As you said "a webpage holding 200 locations and requiring 800 queries is not a webpage a user would need". Search engines know that and disregard pages holding more than 200 links, so a clean routing and drill-down navigation is the right answer for this SEO issue Hope this helps other people :) On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 5:26:01 PM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: > > mind that there's even another "angle": given that usually a city resides > in the same place (same goes for regions, countries, etc etc etc) you can > carefully cache the "computationally expensive" resultset and update it > once a week (or once modifications are made). > That's what we - dba - call as "materialization" process: something huge > to compute, read often, modified rarely...can be computed rarely and stored > somewhere with the most correct structure that is "read-safe". > > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 1:27:29 PM UTC+1, Louis Amon wrote: >> >> a webpage holding 200 locations and requiring 800 queries is not a >> webpage a user would need. >> >> >> That’s actually a very good point ! >> >> This page is actually designed for SEO, but even SEO doesn’t go well with >> hundreds of links. >> >> I think I should build a navigation architecture that maps the drill down >> I want to build. >> This way I solve both problems : the DAL query will be much simpler & the >> result in terms of SEO will also improve ! >> >> Thanks Niphlod for helping me clear that up. Not all answers need to be >> technical :) >> >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
