Depth of files

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by star2323, Dec 22, 2005.

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    I know it is ideal to keep your file structure as flat as possible for the spiders.

    Does that mean your link structure or the physical files in your wwwroot diretory?

    For example:

    wwwroot/articles/a/whatever/article.html

    index.php links to article.html

    So article.html would be 1 link deep right?

    Not 3 deep like it is in the wwwroot directory.
     
    star2323, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  2. star2323

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    What rules do other people follow when setting up their file structures and link structures?
     
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    Keep your site map in the root up to date and try not to nest too deep. Make sure all the internal links work and keep an eye on the external ones. SE spider bots hate broken links.
     
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    What exactly do you mean by too deep.

    For example:

    index.html links to page1.html links to page2.html links to page3.html links to page4.html

    So page4.html is 4 links deep.

    So what if index.html links to page4.html? Then it would only be 1 link deep right?

    What if you page4.html is in the directory:

    root/articles/one/two/three/four/

    Does that effect anything?
     
    star2323, Dec 23, 2005 IP