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I have a quick question regarding site structure that I hope some of you guys could share your opinion on.

I watched a white board friday from Rand a little while back where he explains that you need to try and make the site structure as flat as possible. He was saying try having no more that 3 links from the home page to get to the desired location.

My question is this. I am looking at a site that has a pretty complex structure that I am trying to clear up as much as possible without making any of there rankings suffer.

So they have

www.domian.com/general-category/district/town/

and sometimes

www.domian.com/general-category/district/town/item-specifics

Now i know it is not good as it is, but they are dubious about changing too much as they have some serious traffic coming to the site.

But, my question is that all the pages can be found from the home page through the menus/sub-menus. But do these count as a direct link from the home page. Also a problem is that because of this mozbot has detected that there are too many links from the home page and suggested that it should be below 200. But should I make these menu links no index or no follow.

Obviously, by doing this, if the link does count as direct from the home page it wont after doing this.

Thanks

Jenson

Signed up Zippykid this afternoon for 1 site to see how well it works out. Already the backend system is 100% better to use that wpengine.

now 12.5 hours and counting for an answer from wpengine...shocking!

Quick update for anyone considering using WP engine

It is such as shame because they have fast servers, polite staff BUT the slowest support of any host I have ever come across. At $105 per month for my package I would expect at least a chat function but 9 hours wait for an urgent ticket is unacceptable. I stayed awake until 3am trying to sort a problem then at 8am there was no update. The night staff actually get back to you quicker than the day staff. Now 12.15pm and no update since 3.30am.

Backend software is the most confusing I have ever come across and migration is near on impossible, so much so that even there support staff wiped my site back to standard wp install and then said "fixed".

Luckily I am on a free trial so I can bail but wasted 2 days now trying to do something that with any other host would take an hour.

They claim to have a phone number but if you can get anyone to answer then you are doing better than me. I am in the UK so I am not going to hold for hours on end to a US number.

Thanks for that really detailed reply. It has given me a lot to think about. Also just seen the mozperk for 4 months free which is great as it will give me a chance to give it a good run out before deciding whether or not to shift my money sites there or not.

Thanks Again

Hi Guys,

I wonder if any of you have used / are using WPengine. I am had thought about using them before and was really impressed by there load speeds. They are pretty expensive though when compared to others.

Now, I already have ok hosting but everything is run through a cdn and S3 for streaming HD Videos. Is it worthwhile shelling out for WP engine (pro) or is it better to just stick with an OK host and cdn.

Opinions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jenson

hi,

I hope some of you might be able to give me a few pointers here. A friend of mine has started a web hosting company in the UK. Not an affiliate but actually owns a data centre, Now he has a great deal of experience in running hosting in other countries but all his work came from large corporate companies and not from the net.

The UK hosting he wants to promote from online sales as well. Now I know his site needs considerable work (http://www.cloudwebsters.co.uk) but I want to be able to give him some advice on the best ways to get started promoting his site.

Obviously content is a key to success, but not sure how he can incorporate lots of content into the site as it is effectively e-commerce.

Looking at sites such as UK2.net they have a lot of pages on the site but they are all minimal content. such as http://www.uk2.net/glossary/moreuk2/ which only has a couple of sentences on them. Is this really the way to go for the site, my feeling is no as it does not offer any real quality but your opinions are appreciated.

Thanks

Jenson

Hi,

I hope someone can help me with this. I am working on a site for a client who works at a video production company. They want to have a fair few HD videos on there site but also for the site and videos to be viewable on mobile devices.

I have got a responsive wordpress theme and the site is beginning to take shape. I am wondering however how I can best get the videos to display on mobile devices while maintaining a good load speed.

Until now I have been using amazon S3 which stores and feeds the videos and I use Easyvideoplayer to embed the videos. The problem is they do not appear to show up from mobile devices when using wordpress.

can anyone suggest the best way for me to still feed the videos from S3 but get them to display on mobile devices. oh, they are private videos so they cannot be placed on youtube.