Folder depth and SEO

[LD]

In organizing your sites and folders, is there an advantage to having your index page on a higher level...all things being equal.

Example:

would

mydomain.com/analsluts/index.html

be preferable to

mydomain.com/freesites/november2007/anal/sponsorxyz/analsluts/index.html

?

Just wondering if the placement of the index file has any influence on se jiuce...?

[JackDaniel's]

I've read once something interesting about this

http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/0155.shtml

I'm also wondering what you guys think about all this ?

[LD]

Originally Posted by JackDaniel's

I've read once something interesting about this

http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/0155.shtml

I'm also wondering what you guys think about all this ?

Interesting about the number of characters..which lead me to believe shorter folder names might have some benefit. "FS" rather than "freesite" for example. If the article is correct, then you could have lots of folders if you were careful and used short names.

[JackDaniel's]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Interesting about the number of characters..which lead me to believe shorter folder names might have some benefit. "FS" rather than "freesite" for example. If the article is correct, then you could have lots of folders if you were careful and used short names.

I think it would be wiser not to use so many shortnamed folders It would be better to use some good keywords like (freeporn, asiansex...)

Rankings can be improved by the use of good keyphrases in a URL!

[LD]

Originally Posted by JackDaniel's

I think it would be wiser not to use so many shortnamed folders It would be better to use some good keywords like (freeporn, asiansex...)

Rankings can be improved by the use of good keyphrases in a URL!

Thanks for that bit of advice! That's a little detail I had overlooked.

[Halfdeck]

is there an advantage to having your index page on a higher level...all things being equal.

Folder depth doesn't matter as long as your URL doesn't end up too long - and even then its not something I would worry too much over. Instead, many clicks-away-from-home / low internal link pop are things that can create problems for deep pages.

[suddenlysex]

But what pagerank factors? I have some sites that went to zero page rank from 4 (it scares me) recently. I know these sites have many reasons to leak pr from the link structure but I still get great search engine listings plus allot of deep crawling.