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by Douglas Clifton.
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I'm not a big fan of either really long pages, or the paging of results. Who goes past the first SERP on Google? I do fairly often when drilling down, plus you can find some real gems if you don't give up so easily. But there is a damn good reason why Web site owners want to land on the first page given a certain set of keywords—because most people don't even bother going past the first five links.
In my case, the PHP category of my Web Developer Resource Index was getting ginourmous . I mean out of control, practically unusable. Not to mention the download time. Which is a real shame, considering it is one of the most popular pages on my site. Something had to be done I tell you!
But rather than spending the time and effort to implement paging, I took another approach. And that was to get down to specifics. This was really a taxonomy problem, and the key was to break the page up into a top-level (general) category, and then divide the rest into sub-categories.
The first of these was, as you might have guessed, PHP Frameworks. Now I'm not listing every PHP framework on the planet, there are some pretty good ones and there are some really bad ones. In addition, the page has links to articles and other resources. And I can add more without thinking "oh crap, yet another PHP resource to add to a page that already has close to 100 of them!"
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I'm not a big fan of either really long pages, or the paging of results. Who goes past the first SERP on Google? I do fairly often when drilling down, plus you can find some real gems if you don't give up so easily. But there is a damn good reason why Web site owners want to land on the first page given a certain set of keywords—because most people don't even bother going past the