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Directories - Not like Yahoo...

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

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0 posted 2001-04-04 10:42 PM

My query: Doing a site redesign, and want to change my directory structure a bit - How does that affect current SE rankings, if at all, outside the help they possible give from the naming?

Thanks,

C

Ron

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1 posted 2001-04-06 02:50 AM

For most search engines, it won't matter. There are a few, however, that don't like to crawl "too" deep, though no one seems to be able to agree on just how deep is too deep. I would recommend having no content pages more than two directories deep; i.e., countlesshorizons.com/dir/dir/page.htm would be as deep as I would go.

Christopher

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2 posted 2001-04-06 07:08 AM

Ron - Thank you! That answers my question completely. I was worried that a change would hurt existing rankings.

Ok - with that answered - would you like to go into a more detailed description of exactly how directory naming/etc. affects rankings?

Peace,

C

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