Hello all,

I have a client that would like an index page for each product they sell. I'll give you some examples.

This is what I recommend:
www.sample.com/products/bluewidgets.html or
www.sample.com/products/redwidgets.html

This is what they want:
www.sample.com/bluewidgets/index.html
www.sample.com/redwidgets/index.html

They would like to change it like this for all of their different products, so that means they will have somewhere around 200 index.html pages, but in different folders. I don't think this is a good idea. Can anyone give me some advice or evidence on how this could be a bad idea. The designer says this is something that he heard about at an SEO conference and I have never heard of anything like this. How would a search engine see all of these different index.html pages.