[blinki bill]

i'm with MeatPounder for that one, i actually use that structure for more than two years and the reason why he wants sites be like that is quite simple if you use mirror indexes leading to the same main page SEs will most likely delete all the indexes or leave only one of them so there is big chance he will lose his recip link back, in other hand like that you are not gaining a lot of it too; If the whole site is in a different directory (the html pages is enough the images can be at the same place) you have an entire different site and SEs will see it like that if you take your time to make each page title and description different, make some changes in the texts and all the alt tags and so. So you'll end up with like 5-10 compete different pages instead of one, all the link lists will have their link back so it's a winning deal for all. Many will say that it's easy to just clone the index and especially changing the titles and stuff takes too much time, but the free sites are not galleries; if you care of the quality of your free sites and not the quantity you may end up with less submissions and more sign ups with better ratios....

just too many people are doing free sites the same way they are doing galleries and for me that's not the right way...