Ok.. here is another question... How far will the Search Engine drill down?? We are going to start a huge site from scratch and it is eventually going to be too big to have all the pages in the root directory and still be able to maintain with any easy... Lets take a furniture site for example: you can organize one of three ways... index.html, contact etc.... in the "root" then link internally to either: 1. /furniture/couch/this.htm /chair/that.htm /flooring/hardwood/this.htm /concrete/that.htm OR 2. /furniture/simmons/couch/this.htm /chair/that.htm OR 3. I guess we could go as far as creating a "subweb" and having it "stand on its own" with index files, etc... but them we lose internal pages... that is IF the search engine reads 1 or 2... if they don't, then I guess we wouldn't lose much.. and IF this was the only way to go ... do sites like: http://www.mycompanyhere.com/furniture/simmons/index.html get anything? or do we need to go farther and say http://simmons.mycompanyhere.com? I don't know which one is ideal for organizing, I guess it depends on how your mind works...BUT This would give the ability to organize files without having to remember "oh this was here that was there".. does that make sense? We don't want to do this and not get any ranking because we don't know how far they drill down? So does anyone have any ideas?
I would say avoid having to many subfolders /furniture/simmons/couch/this.htm Possible solution /furniture/ /furniture/?simmons/couch-this.htm will pass on PR better.
i agree. use a sitemap with one-level deep linking if you want to rank 100 pages or more.