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I have developed a site that has a magazine-style layout where every week there's new content. As of now I have everything in the current "issue" in the root directory and archives in other dirs labeled by their date.
example:
Current "issue"
index.html, page1.html, page2.html, etc.
Archive "A"
/20030220/index.html, /20030220/page1.html, /20030220/page2.html, etc.
I got to thinking that maybe I should have the current issue start in its own "dated" directory so that the links aren't broken when freshbot comes around and grabs new content. (Right now I am throwing the "old" current issue in a new directory and replacing the original files with the new content). Would the new plan be wise?
Second, would I be penalized (so to speak) for having an index.html which had all its links go to a subdirectory /20030227/ if that's how I proceeded or would that not matter? I'm still a little fuzzy on that after reading several posts on it.
Third, should I do this right now? I've never been indexed (i do have some Freshbot results). When they update, is that a process that spans a timeframe or do they just make recent crawl results active all at once?
Thanks for any help!
This forum is excellent!
I agree. You do not want to move the pages after they have been indexed.
>would I be penalized (so to speak) for having an index.html which had all its links go to a subdirectory /20030227/
Absolutely not. No problem there. Sounds like good structure.
>should I do this right now?
Yes! Because the update is coming soon. You will want the pages to be in their permanent folder before the crawl.
<offtopic>Also, just a thought that may be useful. Consider using external stylesheets and server side includes for your layout and presentation. This way, when you have 1000 pages and you want to add a new link to your menu, you will not have to hand code 1000 pages.</offtopic>
Sounds like you are on the right track. You should try to set everything up so it changes as little as possible in the future.
I'm changing them as we speak!
