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Let's put on a scenario for a Job Classified site,

So far the way we are handling xml sitemaps is in a consecutive number containing only ads historically:

http://site.com/sitemap_ads_1.xml

http://site.com/sitemap_ads_2.xml

http://site.com/sitemap_ads_99.xml

Those sitemaps are constantly updating as each ad is published, keeping expired ads but I'm sure there is a better way to handle them.

For instance we have other source of content besides ads pages, like those related to search results (Careers, Location, Salary, level, type of contract, etc) and blog content, but we are not adding them yet

So what I'm suggesting is to reduce the amount of xml sitemaps ads to just one, including just the ones that are active (not expired), add another xml sitemap based on search results, another one on blog content, another one on images and finally one for static content such as home, faq, contact, etc.

Do you guys think this is the right way to go?

Hi Rand,

I'll send the format to the IT team, and start working with the redirections.

However, my only concern I have left is titles, as more filters are used the title will eventually go over the 65 mark, but I guess is something I have to live with it.

Thanks again Rand.

I've been trying to handle URLs from a unfrendly folder format to a semantic one, the thing is by doing so I end up with a longer URL and therefore a longer Title.

Right now the format of my classified site for job seeking looks like this (folders):

site.com/search/category/sales/level/supervisor/location/seattle/company/acme/published/2-days-ago/type/full-time/q/salesman/page/2

format: Filter/Content where at the end q is the query people are writting

My suggestion is the following: Mixing Jobs with location, mixing category and level, and puting the rest of the filters at the end adding "--" between them. And adding 2 parameters, query (q) and pagination (pag)

site.com/jobs-at-seattle/sales-supervisor/company/acme/full-time--published-2-days-ago?q=salesman&pag=2

Any thoughts on how to handle URLs over 100 chararcters and titles that go over 65?, or maybe is ok to have "friendly" long URLs and long titles when it comes to classified ad sites since they are based on internal filters to help people find what they are looking for.

Sidenote: Is itok to have 2 parameters in the URL (Query and Pagination)

Thanks a lot.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find a way to give each post we are creating a quality status.

Since bounce rate on this case isn't really a viable option (Blog Behavior) since people could stay 10 mins reading it and then go elsewhere without interacting.

I'm looking for a way to focus on facebook sharing, lets say something simple like "Facebook Shares / Sessions" per each blog post, while I can have an idea on my own data, lets say my highest is 4.1% of all people that go to that post end it up sharing it.

But I wonder on average what would you consider a good engagement post, what would that percentage might be?

Thanks in advance.