Re: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Erika L. Rich
:P :) Every time I say "period" I get flack from the UK contingent LOL So now I say full stop ... :) On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Vivec wrote: > > FULLSTOP guys! . > > FULL. > STOP. > > roarsies > the Ewika has spokens > > . > ~

Re: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Vivec
FULLSTOP guys! . FULL. STOP. roarsies the Ewika has spokens . On 24 March 2011 17:29, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Ditto. > > Search engines rank pages. Not directories. If the content is rank worthy, > it doesn't matter how deep it is, it will be ranked ... full stop. > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 a

Re: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Erika L. Rich
Ditto. Search engines rank pages. Not directories. If the content is rank worthy, it doesn't matter how deep it is, it will be ranked ... full stop. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jacob wrote: > > From an SEO prospective, does not make that much of a difference. > > ~~~

RE: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Jacob
>From an SEO prospective, does not make that much of a difference. -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:leviat...@darktech.org] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:20 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: seo and subdirectory depth > The guy I'm talking to didn't want any subdirectori

Re: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
site.com/news/ or site.com/blog/ definitely inform search engines as to the type of content they contain. /category/ or /tag/ does not help search engines afaik, but they do inform readers as to the taxonomy of the site, and help them form a cognitive map. from a pure readership standpoint, /pre

Re: seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Justin Scott
> The guy I'm talking to didn't want any subdirectories or as few as possible. > He has a bunch of categories and he wants a page for each category in the > site root. I'd put them all in a categories subdirectory. "The Art of SEO" from O'Reilly (October 2009) advises on page 210: "A URL should

seo and subdirectory depth

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm having a small disagreement with someone over subdirectory depth and seo. My understanding is that subdirectories are to give contextual descriptions and grouping to their content. A subdirectory of news would lend it's name ('news') to the content of the directory, enhancing it's 'news-ness'.