Hello. I was talking with my friend about friendly URLs and then we came up to a question, which URL is for search engine better when we are trying to optimize site for higher SERP. Examples: #1: www.domain.com/topic.html #2: www.domain.com/topic/ Or is there any better option. What do you think? Thanks for sharing your opinion or / and explanation.
I think no.1 is better cause it shows exactly that it is html page. Just my sense, no facts #1: www.domain.com/topic.html
OK, I hope that SEs say tha same. Thanks. If anyone have anythink to say about this topic, feel free.
Just build your content for the users and worry less about the little things. In the end, the SEs will follow the users.
I came to this question, because I have all sites like #2 example. But a friend told me that he prefers #1. So, like I told him... there is no big difference.
a directory would have a default page such as index.html that gets served. Is file extension .html rather than .php or .asp better or is that BS too?
They're both pretty equal. Search engines are getting smarter though and soon there won't really be a need to rewrite URLs, unless you're trying to benefit the end-user (so that they can remember the URL). My argument and the evidence lies within Digital Point forums, even though Shawn has a pretty l337 customized archive optimized for search engines.
It's been argued that .html pages are indexed faster than .php and .asp pages simply because search engines don't recognize the coding/extensions. I think that's true, but I don't think one is indexed more efficiently, or better than the other.
I don't see any difference here really but I'd prefer pages rather than indexes for a page. Like interesting-content.html rather than url/index.html, urlagain/index.html
I've noticed that my directories are ranked higher than my .html (or whatever extension) pages when I do a site: search on Google. That's the only evidence I've seen that directories *may* be better, though all indications to me are that there really is no difference.