Using sub-directories in a large site

(NOT sub-domains)

[DougW]

I have a large site, 5000 pages and growing. To make site management easier, I have created sub-directories to hold certain categories of pages resulting in urls such as: www.domain.com/dir1/page1.html, etc. I started doing this about 60 days ago.

The problem(?) is that now that the new pages have been spidered and indexed (at least by Google) the new pages are doing very poorly in serp/traffic. If anything, my new pages have better content that the ones in the main directory.

My question: Does using sub-directories have a negative impact with the major search engines?

[dougs]

Not that we see.

Make sure the good potential traffic pages have links form the front page.

Doug

[DougW]

I forgot to mention in the above topic. All the pages, old and new have the same "linking depth", meaning they are all 3 or 4 clicks away from index.html or sitemap.