Images in Posts
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Is it possible to have the images we attach to posts appear on the front page of our blogs where the posts are?
In another words I’m using Inuit Type theme, and the images show only when you click the post to read it.
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@joer223
I want to share with you why I do not want set my blog up which is also in the Inuit Types theme to display thumbnails on the front page. One of the reasons I selected to use this theme is because there are no links being displayed in the excerpts of posts on the front page. The second reason was that I could choose not to display images in those same excerpts.Some search spiders will cease indexing content when they experience more than about 100 – 115 links on any given page. Front pages are resplendent with links to static pages and child pages, as well as, links to each and every sidebar item, and every post title is also a link.
I do not want to have linked images in the excerpts on my front page so I can keep the number of links on that page under 100 links.
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Thanks for your input Timethief! I know you have prolific knowledge about such things.
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Time Thief……… that is very important info that you gave up there about the Search Engines ceasing to index content when they experience more than 100 – 115 links on any given page.
On my Home Page, I have some tabs that contain many links, which takes away from the number of links that the posts can have before the Search Engines give up.
Given that fact, is it a good idea to set one “page” to have fewer posts?
~LK
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@lornakismet
The issue isn’t one about posts per say it’s about the number of links to posts or to pages. I choose to limit the number of links on any and all pages in my blog, including those on my front page, to less than 100 links. Don’t forget to count into that number that all links in your sidebar(s), which load with every page load of your blog, and all links to static pages in the horizontal menu, and the Blog Title and RSS feeds links. -
That’s what I was thinking about last night when I read this: The sidebar. My sidebar has some Pages with many links. And when I said that maybe it would be a good idea to have fewer posts in one “page” I meant that, since the Sidebar itself has a bunch of links, and since my posts always have links, sometimes many, then maybe adjusting to have fewer posts per “page” would keep me safer —– not excessive in links.
-Lk
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@lornakismet
Re: reducing the number of links in your sidebar.As the most recent posts on my blog are on the front page of the blog, and as the theme (Inuit Types) supplies navigation links at the very bottom of the front page to ← Older posts I do not use the Recent Posts widget at all.
I have 8 excerpts of posts in 2 columns on my front page. All have title links, of course, and links to the Categories and Tags to which they are assigned. By removing the Recent Posts widget I got rid of 8 redundant links from my front page.
I do have a Categories cloud widget and I keep my number of categories on my blog low in number. I eliminated the Tag cloud widget because I could see no evidence in my “Clicks” stats of visitors clicking on them. It contained 47 links!
I also reduced the number of comments I display in the Recent Comments widget after I realized this redundancy – every avatar is a link to the commenter’s blog just as their user name is a link to their blog.
If you look at my sidebar you will see that it’s not cluttered at all. I don’t post any badges or awards or many little chiclets because little every one of those is also linked, and because I consider them to to be useless distracting clutter that draws the readers’ eyes away from my content.
I don’t use a Links (Blogroll) widget and instead use a static page so that removes all those links from my sidebar as well.
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