I have just finished my newest site home-loans-va.com and had a resource directory that was linked from the main URL and cached very quickly. A few days later I had a "bright idea" to organize the links and moved them to a sub directory so now all the links are home-loans-va.com/directory/real estate partners instead of home-loans-va.com/real estate partners. Its taken G forever to cache the pages. Usually G goes through my sites and caches within days. I have never done the sub dir thing before. I have had to put /directory/real estate partners pages linked from my FP of my main site, VML to get them cached. Obviously I can not do all 50 states like that.

My question is did I do it right and does G value the pages in sub cat's any less important and will PR suffer for those pages being in a sub dir? I am more than willing to move them back to where they were for the benefit of my link partners if it needs to happen but I see others that have the same set up and everything on their site seems fine i.e. cache and pr.

Input appreciated.

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You might want to ask this question at: www.highrankings.com/forum

The forum has a great group of people, and they're very knowledgeable, too.

Good luck.

Kathleen

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Greetings mtgman, I have clients sites that have both styles of directories. I have not noticed a difference in the amount that they get spidered. I also have not noticed that there is a difference in how often they get cached.

Thanks Jason,

I appreciate the input. Also, I do not know if you saw my email. I did not see the home-loans-va links on any of the sites you specified. Can you forward the exact URL's you placed my link? Thanks.

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