Is it better to keep a glossary or terms on one page or break it up into multiple pages?
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We have a very large glossary of over 1000 industry terms on our site with links to reference material, embedded video, etc. Is it better for SEO purposes to keep this on one page or should we break it up into multiple pages, a different page for each letter for example?
Thanks.
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Thanks. That's what I assumed was the case.
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We have a large glossary on our site. In my opinion, 1000 entries is too many for one page. We break ours into alphabetical pages and still have a lot of entries on some of the pages.
These A, B, C pages each pull in some long-tail search traffic every day and they generate ad impressions from visitors who look at several glossary pages.
We also have links to reference pages, photos, graphics... 1000 entries is way too many.
A friend of ours has a large glossary with a generous amount of content for most of the entires. He placed each definition on a separate page and between 1995 and 2011 made buckets of money from search traffic into those pages. Then he got hit with a Panda problem, move to alphabetical pages and his site has recovered - still a huge income loss from those definition pages.
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Hi KenW,
With 1,000 glossary terms along with embedded videos would make for a very long page. This might crash some user's browsers, let alone take a long time to load.
I would opt to break it down into multiple pages. Not sure about a separate page per letter. Definitely add quick links on each page so that the user can easily find the letter/word they are looking for. At 1,000 glossary terms a custom search function might also be beneficial.
Regards,
Kevin
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