so I was wondering if making sections of your website load under just a directory name such as yourname.com/blah/........yournmae.com/blah2/ and creating an index file for each directory.


does this help with SEO or am i just wasting time?

I would just name the html file the keyphrase of whatever you are targeting, and not worry about adding additional directories with seperate index pages.

Also, hyphenate the url with the keyphrase. example: www.widgets.com/blue-round-widgets.html

I did this with a clients site http://slotsforsale.com and they have jumped way up in Google with more specialized searches because of the product urls being in this format.

Hope that helps :)

You don't have to do that manually. Rewrite engine can do that for you. But honestly, I don't really see the point. As Mitac said, normal, *.html type urls should be fine.

I would just name the html file the keyphrase of whatever you are targeting, and not worry about adding additional directories with seperate index pages.

I agree with Mitac. Just use a descriptive name .html

Make sure you name the file by the keyword you want to use.. For example, if you want the main keyword for that web page to be "widgets", name the file "/widgets.html"...

Using directory stacking as opposed to calling files into an HTML page is indeed search engine friendly.

For example, if you have a page called shop and the url to it ended in index.php?page=shop a search engine will only trawl through the content of index.php (without the page shop having been loaded).

Whereas with /home/shop/index.htm you allow a search engine database access to read all of the information stored on that page.

This is why a lot of CMS now give the option of 'search engine friendly URL', so you can join the PR battle even if you're using a pre-made software.

If you are to write your pages within each directory, that would take a lot of time. Try htaccess mod_rewrite

htaccess mod_rewrite

Again, not search engine friendly :(

why is that not search engine friendly? Care to elaborate? If done correctly, no search engine will even know the 'original' links. For example: we've launched firstclassentertainment.nl and it has a great description of the current path in the title and subjectname.html as page names and within 8 days all pages were indexed in Google and now its topping the search engine results on most keywords (names from artists and attractions) for example google.nl/search?q=Max+Musette