Does using a blank index.html in folders to prevent users from viewing a directory of the contents cause any problems with SEO etc? i.e. the file could be crawled by G and then be a drain on your rankings. Ian
You can put a link on it to another web page. Without an index file my log files have shown visitors to folders for which I did not want.. Shannon
Shouldn't cause a problem but if you are worried about it, use the robots meta tag: <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX","NOFOLLOW"> That way, it gets ignored by the spiders.
You could use Options -Indexes in your .htaccess file. That would switch off auto-indexing so the user would not be presented with the directory listing. I would guess that any such requests would return a 404 error, but I've never tried it so I can't be certain. cheers John