paynt - 1:31 pm on Aug 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

are directories containing just one page at a disdvantage?

not in my experience. I set every page separately in it’s own directory as an index.htm. Never have any problems and doubt I ever will from that. Nice clean structure so I love it. I can see no reason to change a structure set like this. Can’t think of any benefit of changing things but I can think of lots of potential problems.

In message #9 WebGuerrilla is right on with why duplicate content could cause a problem. Otherwise, I have never had a problem. Run a search for canonicals here at Webmaster World. I’ve weighed in many times with this.

I have no problems with sub-domains (canonicals), not with Inktomi or Google or Alta Vista, etc. It’s not the canonical but the way again that people use the canonical that gets them busted and then of course they blame it on the canonicals. With Inktomi they were going after some big bad spammers who happen to use canonicals.