Question regarding subdirectories and SEO

Hi,

My website itself is very basic, just 5 or 6 pages (although I am working on making them dynamic). However I link from my homepage to several (and an ever increasing number) of blogs....each that has a lot of content and that is being updated daily.

Is there a particular way to link to the subdirectories to have them crawled by the google bot?

ie is it best to simply link to the subdirectory or should I link to the index file in the subdirectory?

Regards

Sam

I'm not sure I understand. I assume these blogs are external to your site?

In any case Google will follow the links unless you have a nofollow attribute set. The more times you link (and the higher your page's PR) the more time the links will be followed.

Hi, yeh i didn't really word my question too well!

My cause for concern was just that I am not linking to an html page per se, i am linking to a whole subdirectory and i didn't know if it made any difference?

They are my blogs and all part of my domain....can google follow links that are encased in javascript? My understanding was that it can't/it doesn't?

I suppose i was just getting a little paranoid that my linking techniques were wrong!

Aslong as you don't make them really hard to read in the JavaScript Google will pick some urls out of them if it is allowed to index it.

I personally wouldn't relie on it TBH, the same with urls in flash files.

When you link to the subdirectory do you get a page returned or a 404/500 error page?

If the page is returned and has html links off it the pages should get indexed.

If you get error pages then no they will not get indexed.

Just create a html site map thus you will have no problems with indexing.

Jaza