Content Architecture on wordpress

[bopeep]

I don't want blogs, but all my sites are built on WordPress.
I have a few questions on site structure.

If you have a website with called widgets - with several level of sub categories. Like Blue Widget - light blue widget - round light blue widget.
Simple example is say a directory of Walmart stores.

Top category is US - STATES - CITY till store level and have content at each level.

So far, I was doing blog posts with no containerization at url level

US/abc-walmart

instead of US/california/sandiego/ABC Walmart because you know shorter url

Also, every Walmart was a blog post and the post was linked from a parent page of San Diego which also had a parent directory (also a page or post) as California and so on.

This works, and I wanted to do pages as it is easy to two Sub pages, but someone once told me that it gets slow when you have thousands of pages because of how WordPress is built. Wise word. And posts are working. that was years ago and I am not sure if WordPress is more optimized for pages now.

But I want to try a proper parent child structure. So my current structure is still the best way to go or you have a better go to structure for large sites.

what do the big magazine and newssites running WordPress use?

Reason I am looking for a new structure is because I want to a add a blog in my new project and I will be updating the blog frequently.

My other thought was to install another WordPress on a subfilder. like site. com/blog

but not sure if have two installs is a good idea.

thoughts?

And please share best practices for on page.

And regarding the blog, I want to add a blog for Industry news. I would assume rewriting news would be the best way to go?

Anybody using a good news rewriting service that don't costs bomb. I don't want Indian writers, but these are not well researched articles I am looking for. just news rewrite and maybe some commentary to make it look unique. Also, Does news syndication hurt overall seo due to duplicate content? I won't but maybe I can start another new blog on a different domain. for juice. but not if the syndicates dupe Content issues.

 

[dresden]

Architecture / hierarchy does seem to be important for informational collation. If your site is narrow in focus, so too can be your architecture. A lot of WP sites just hang the posts off the root with no category slug, and then violate current working directory / tree issues when they have site.com/post-name-here/ and then the category rollup is on site.com/category/news/ or whatever.

I would seek to avoid that if you can, and nest things categorically if you can. A lot of big media / news sites do it for advertising sell through (RPM isolation on category / topic level pages) and because of technical architecture that prefers this type of thing for RSS generation, google news feeds, etc.

If you're asking about rewriting AP wires or similar, you can probably markov it to some extent, if you spend some time with it. Otherwise, plenty of sites do compete well in gnews with the wire autopost. I see it every day. If you have the budget, sure, take the ap wire, read it once, and use dragon to dictate a new version. Or get someone to do that for you. Takes like 10 mins per article.