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Originally Posted by Mattinblack
It still is fine to use index pages in subdirectories
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This is a personal call, but keep in mind that linking to "www.domain.com/index.html" and "www.domain.com/" will usually result in Google indexing both urls, in some cases causing one or the other to go supplemental. This is similar to the www/non-www supplemental issue resulting in dupes. In the worst case scenario, the duplicates may lower your ranking in the SERPs; in the best case scenario they merely make a mess out of your Google listing by inflating (doubling) the number of pages listed in Google. As you know, supplementals can be a bitch to get rid of --- a good enough reason for me to take extra measures to make sure Google listings link to me using / and not /index.html.
One way to avoid the problem of course is if you link to "www.domain.com/" and never to "www.domain.com/index.html". You can also 404 /index.html, or use a base ahref= tag.
For free sites with multiple doorways, index.html, index.htm, warning.htm will probably be seen as unique pages (due to unique recip tables, provided you link to enough LLs), but say if you submit a teen-slut/index.html url and link from your hub to that page using /teen-slut/ or if your malicious competitor links to you using both urls, then you're going to end up with a supplemental listing in Google.