Such Great Heights posted the following in the "When you look at a new customer's site... " thread: What is considered to be excessive folders? Wouldn't folders with keywords be good too? Like domain.com/keyword1/keyword2/keyword3.htm? Thanks
The deeper your folder structure goes, the more link popularity you need before search crawlers will hit it.
Spiders work from the main page as far as crawling the site goes. It has nothing to do with folder structure. In a hierarchical sense, the main page is considered the root and all the other pages branch from it. As far as seo goes, there used to be a boost in terms of keywords in the url but that trick doesn't work very well any more. The best way to structure your site is to do so in a way that is meaningful to you, or the viewer. Use a keyword or two when creating folders but don't overdo it. E.g. www.sitename.com/keyword/pagename.html rather than, www.sitename.com/keyword/keyword-stuffing/more-keyword-stuffing/pagename.html Untrue.
Is it prefferable to have subdomains rather than folders? I'm wondering which is best for preserving page rank and getting indexed...
Thanks guys. My link popularity is pretty good (PR4 on most important deep pages), but I think I might make some small changes to my redesign to make things a little flatter.
I don't know I've been seeing a lot of spammy subdomains recently. If that trend continues users will become weary.