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Re: The influence of directory size on SE ranking From Inachu on 12 Jan '01 replying to The influence of directory size on SE ranking posted by Nicholas Just as long as the links can be followed sometimes all can be indexed or sometimes the only the first 256 words will be indexed per page depending on the search engine. Following this logic you will want most important info ont he top of the pages. Inachu >Does anyone know if the number of files in a directory influences search engine ranking? > >That is, I have 150 HTML pages to put somewhere. I can dump them all in root/subdirectory/, or I can break them up into root/subdirectory/subsub1 ... subsub2 ... subsub3. > >Obviously it may be a bit more work to get them listed if they are on the third level down rather than the second. But will it matter to their eventual ranking?

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>Just as long as the links can be followed sometimes all can be indexed or sometimes the only the first 256 words will be indexed per page depending on the search engine. > >Following this logic you will want most important info ont he top of the pages. > > > > >Inachu >>Does anyone know if the number of files in a directory influences search engine ranking? >> >>That is, I have 150 HTML pages to put somewhere. I can dump them all in root/subdirectory/, or I can break them up into root/subdirectory/subsub1 ... subsub2 ... subsub3. >> >>Obviously it may be a bit more work to get them listed if they are on the third level down rather than the second. But will it matter to their eventual ranking?