My site classified as a directory

It's not, as far as I know, what to do?

[fearlessrick]

I just checked some diagnostics in Google sitemaps and got this message:
"Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions"

My site is not a directory. Now I know why my Adsense earnings have been garbage for so long. I'm quite upset just thinking of what my earnings should be, but what can I do?

I'd love to hear opinions on what constitutes a directory and what does not. (the main focus of my site is a price guide for certain periodicals... is that a directory?)

I am sending an email to Google. These guys have way too much power and don't use it fairly IMO.

[tebrino]

They probably mean server directory, not web directory...

[fearlessrick]

What does that mean? And why should that affect my listings on Google and Adsense ads?

[tebrino]

Why do you think it has anything to do with your ads? I'm not an expert, but I believe that you have directory on your site that has no index page

[Rodney]

by directory, they just mean "folder on your server".

Like example.com/directory or example.com/folder

Different files in that directory may be set to not allow spidering and some files may be set to allow spidering.

I don't think that is telling you there is an effect on your earnings, just an effect on google's ability to crawl your site.

[fearlessrick]

I don't know, but judging by the thousands of blog posts, message board posts, etc., complaining about Google's indexing methodology, I think I've gotten a little ahead of myself and was having a paranoic fit (not unusual).

The gist of it, without being too specific, is that my price guide includes index pages (say the particular year of a periodical and prices and - if available - a link to indvidual issues ON MY SITE) and individual issue pages. My feeling is that google is viewing these index pages as a directory and penalizing me. I am probably incorrect in that assumption, though I believe I would be better served making one kind of page and not the other.

Let's leave it at that. Thanks for your insights.

[executell]

That just happen to me.
I noticed in my site-map.txt I forgot to add the .htm to one url line.
Thus it looked like a directory (folder)
I resubmitted with the correction

[executell]

I take that back
I ran every page thru and I get the same error for each one.
I have a subdomain setup and for some reason it doesnt like it and considers it a directory?

[fearlessrick]

I think that's my problem as well. I have one large subdirectory which I would actually like to dispose of, but I am concerned that changing it over into the root directory might result in a loss of traffic or duplicate content penalty.

Any suggestions on how to go about this?