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Post December 15th, 2003, 2:11 pm

Will SE's pick up pages that have shorter roots and list them better and more quickly?

i.e.

http://www.mysite.com/

vs.

http://www.mysite.com/folder/

vs.

http://www.mysite.com/folder/folder
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Post December 15th, 2003, 2:11 pm

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Post December 15th, 2003, 2:44 pm

It may have some affect on smaller engines, but no, I really doubt any of those would make a difference. There are more important things search engines use such as how sites link to you, the number and quality of sites linking to you, the and amount of content on your site.
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Post December 16th, 2003, 5:14 am

homer simpson wrote:
Will SE's pick up pages that have shorter roots and list them better and more quickly?

i.e.

http://www.mysite.com/

vs.

http://www.mysite.com/folder/

vs.

http://www.mysite.com/folder/folder



A few people think so, my personal opinion is that it is not the depth of
the directory structure, but rather the depth of the linking structure.

Usually, pages that are deep are not linked directly from the homepage,
and I think that is what makes the difference.

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Post December 19th, 2003, 4:12 am

I think depth has more of an indirect influence rather than being calculated as a particular factor by Google. I think Google is quite happy to crawl a site that is many pages deep, as long as the site has a high page rank and is linked to from many sources. For instance, a direct link from an external source into the depths of a website will get crawled more frequently than a page without any external inbound links that takes a few clicks to get to from the homepage.
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Post January 14th, 2004, 8:57 am

pompei is right on the money
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Post January 16th, 2004, 6:33 pm

Although...I don't really see many sites popping up high in the search rankings that have long url's in site/directory/after/directory
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Post January 17th, 2004, 9:03 am

That could be the correlation between link and directory depth.

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