How Many Weblog Posts Are Too Many On Your Front Page?
Matt Perelstein, guest blogging on Easy Bake Weblogs asked:
I have typepad. I can set it to show between 1 and 100 posts on each page. I have it set to 100.I figured that the max setting would show people plenty of info, would be good for SEs ’cause content is king and there’s more content that way, and I thought Hey, once people are here, let ‘em scroll away. Besides, the delivery of Typepad blogs is extremely fast, so 100 doesn’t take any more time to load than a lesser setting.
but there’s got to be better reasoning than these.
What’s best in your opinion?
I think one hundred posts on your front page is too many. To Google, one of the defining characteristics of a weblog is that it is constantly being updated with new content and outgoing links. In Google parlance, this is “Freshness.” I like to maximize this quality by only showing as many posts as I regularly make in one week on my weblog’s front page.
There is also some question as to how much of a long page Google will read. Take your weblog for instance:
Right now on your front page, there’s a post from December 16, 2004 titled “Quotes on Lack”. If I do a Google site search that title, Google returns your front page, and the permalink for that entry (in addition to other pages on your site that might be relevant.
But, if I scroll all the way to the bottom and repeat the exercise for the last post on the page “Are You Mentor Material?”, Google doesn’t return your site’s front page, only the permalink. IMHO, this means that Google is ignoring the content on your long page after some point. Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly where that point is, but with some experimentation, it’d shouldn’t be hard to find.
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