Google/SEs and linklist category pages...

[LD]

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

domain.com/linklistdirectory/asian.html and a different html page for each cat.

but some have

domain.com/asiandirectory/index.html 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...

[teenrave]

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.

[Greenguy]

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

[Useless]

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.

[LD]

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

domain.com/bigtits.html?

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

[Useless]

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

domain.com/bigtits.html?

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.

[asianslave]

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.