Does anyone know exactly which style is seen better by the top search engines(g,y,msn) ? 1) dmoz style: host/directory/subpage/ 2) wikipedia style: host/wiki/something 3) normal style: host/blabla.html To me it seems that yahoo and msn dislike style #2. Google seems more flexible. Does anyone know more and have arguments?
I believe the general consensus is the closer to the root directory the better. But, I dunno how much it matters.
I agree with that, but one exception would be you can get more keywords in the URL with a longer directory structure.