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Anyway, I just launched a new site. Rather than be put into an old-fashioned server with www directories, they put my site on their new system. It's called Plex (moderators, if you have to delete that, I'll understand).
At any rate, my pages are now in a directory named "httpdocs," rather than "www."
Just looking at the directory hierarchy made my head spin.
If it's confusing for me, wouldn't it be confusing for the bots as well?
I realize that the domain name servers point to the same IP. But I wonder if the bots navigate this structure as easily as they do with the formerly conventional directory structures.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
At any rate, my pages are now in a directory named "httpdocs," rather than "www."
The only content accessible to spiders (and indeed the general public) are in a separate folder within your hosting account. So there will be no change to spiders if that folder is called something else.
Unless you want to have files not accessible to the public, then you only need to worry about what's in the www/public_html/httpdocs folder. Different servers have different default names.
You probably have folders like error_docs (for 404 pages etc.) private (for personal files not accessible to anyone else) etc. But these are of no concern to search engines since they only access the public stuff.
