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Blogger DeIndexing Archives?

If I’m reading the Note at the bottom of this Blogger support page correctly, Blogger no longer plans to support an archive index file. Not good. An archive index is the necessary focal point of a weblog archive, whence stem all links to past archive pages. While including a full archive index on your front page may give more immediate access to weblog archives, the larger archive list of a longtime weblog can take up precious resources, slowing down page loading, increasing bandwidth usage, and lengthening sidebars. I hope Blogger reconsiders on this; I wouldn’t want to be tied down to an archive list that couldn’t stand on its own.

4 Comments

  1. Could you repeat that in English and tell me how it would affect me?

    Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 12:28 pm | Permalink
  2. Paulo wrote:

    You seem to be maintaining your sidebar archive links fairly well, so I don’t think it affects you at all.

    Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
  3. Whew. Good. Thanks!

    Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 12:59 pm | Permalink
  4. Gordon wrote:

    Ohhh they can’t do that!!

    I’m just about to switch to an archive index, for precisely the reasons you outline. I’m off to Blogger to lodge a query.

    Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 5:20 pm | Permalink