Hello everyone! question from a newbie so please be gentle .... which one do Search Engines prefers? i hear SE likes html files but also that it like deep links, I am using http mod_rewrite so can go either way. thoughts? www.site.com/my/something/ or www.site.com/my/something.html rgds, Tim
personally i dont think it would make a difference. obviously static content does much better than dynamic, so as long as your pages are static then I would use naming conventions that are best for my technology infrastructure, not SE's.
Personally, .htm and .html would probably get indexed faster. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter in the long term, because trailing-slash or non-trailing slash also get indexed.
I personally use .html on all of my pages, but I'm old school. As for indexing purposes avoiding the supplementary index would be more of a consideration than whether to leave it trailing or not.
Why not use .googleplsindexmequick? J/K I like .html better, but don't really have a reason to. I think they should both be the same as for SEO.
yes your write in terms of HTML, that SEs do like its crawled by bots not unlike in CSS, javascript and flash design. but in deep links its so hard for search engine spider to crawl the deep links thats why other use a sitemap because of this other reasons. ya your write for mod_rewrite its for redirections. theres also other redirections it depends on the error but the common redirection is the 301, 302 and the 404 error using .htaccess. i hope you get my explanations..thanks
I use slash for category/sections and .html for content items. I just like its look. I think it is more logical but i dont know google's engineers' viewpoint but i dont think they will add any noticable weight to one of these choices.