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My site home page is www.abc.com/new/root1/index.php
Is this is bad in search engine point of view.
Pls help
Thanks
In my experience many SE's only index upto 3 levels of your site...so I would say that your URL is just about SE friendly.
If possible though it would be a good idea to lose one of the directores however if you have existing pages indexed in the SE's I wouldn't bother as these SE links would no longer work!
Hope that helps!
In my experience many SE's only index upto 3 levels of your site...so I would say that your URL is just about SE friendly.
Years ago, this may have been an issue. Nowadays, the depth of the URI is not that important. What is important is the linking structure of the site and how many clicks it takes to reach the URI destination. If that URI were linked from the home page of your site, it is one click away and will carry much more weight than if it were two, three or four clicks away.
Your goal should be to keep the URIs short and sweet. Make them as user friendly as possible. Make them easily remembered. If your site has a high rate of return visitors, they will appreciate the simple URI structure and the ease of navigation that comes with it.
Your goal should be to keep the URIs short and sweet. Make them as user friendly as possible. Make them easily remembered. If your site has a high rate of return visitors, they will appreciate the simple URI structure and the ease of navigation that comes with it.
Could not have said it better myself! There is often too much emphasis put on what the search engines want and not the users.
Consider this phony example(it's a stretch...) Search engines prefer black backgrounds and white text. Sites with this color scheme rank 50% higher on average. So now Johnny SEO goes through and "Optimizes" all of his pages, and the traffic starts coming in. However, now his sales fall by 75% because nobody can navigate his "Optimized" site.
