I am a marketing consultant and I have a new client that is a very large company. I am trying to get them up to speed on basic site optimization. They have three major divisions in the company and each has its own site. To provide the user access to the three sites they have built a gateway page under their main url. So, when you go to www.company.com...you get... http://www.company.com/index/global.cfm.... then you choose one of three links on the page to go to the main sites...such as http://www.company.com/index/home.cfm. These links are text links. How much of a problem is this for the SEs to index? Or is it a problem at all? I appreciate any help here...I am not a tech person and I been researching this for days and have not been able to find any info that could give me insight on this. Thanks for your time.
No shouldnt be - as long as the link isnt diverting humans one way and spiders the other. or cloaking. But it might have an issue with PR, inbound links and Google to work out which the core page to hang PR on (the canonical root)
Thanks Umbertide. That actually helped me a lot. The client's main site has tremendous link popularity based on their product lines...so I have recommended that we focus on basic site optimization and start an effort to review links and work on optimization with anchor text. I think this wealth of links can help override any PR issues created by the gateway page. Thanks again...I really appreciate the response to my first post on the forum.