Google/SEs and linklist category pages...
 

I noticed that linklist with seperate category pages usually have something like:

and a different html page for each cat.

but some have

putting an index page inside folders created for each category.

Is there an advantage to one or the other...does an index page get any special treatment?

Just wondering...

The url has a certain weight I'm not sure that an index page has any weight. But you do want keywords in your url.

That's probably based on the "theory" that search engines like index.html pages.

The answer is really quite simple and it has nothing to do with SEO.



















Different types of link list software. Some create pages with category names (big-tits.html), and others insert an index page inside a category directory (big-tits/index.html). One would prefer to have a root installation and not put their link list in a sub directory at all.

Thanks for the answers...it doesn't seem to matter all that much. Useless, do you mean:

might be best? That does seem logical (for some reason :) )

Pretty much, yes. It's best not to bury pages of value in sub directories if you can avoid it, and naming your pages with keyword phrases is a positive SEO move as well.

I mix it up across domains; some months google likes subdirectory index pages, eg.
domain.com/big-tits/index.html (or rather the URL that you would link to would be domain.com/big-tits/ - better to leave off the index.html part).

other months they tweak the algo and like
domains.com/big-tits.html

So if you've got a mix across both domains it might help even out your total traffic over time in some small way.

btw Matt Cutts is on record saying that G does better when words in urls are separated by a hyphen (eg. big-tits vs bigtits), but that was some time ago.