Need help - URL structure of travel site

Hi,

Let me know which one url structure is better for a travel website.

Ending with .html is more valuable than the first one?

A) http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/paris-tour


B) http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/paris-tour.html

Your guidance needed. Thanks in advance

Regards,
Roger

 

There is no use for 'extentsions' in URLs anymore, so I suggest you keep it as clean as possible (without the .html)

 

Some browsers doesn't care about the extensions of the website - considering this you can take the first type of URL

 

I hope this tutorial helps you.

websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/rewrite/

 

Thanks for the article. Was of great help !

 

www.example.com

I think ending with .html is more valuable than the first one
A) http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/paris-tour
Search Engine Treats - FOLDER, because there is no extension and bot will be confused whether to treat it has folder or a page.

B) http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/paris-tour.html
Search Engine Treats - Page, because of its extension

 

If you don't add the .html you force your server to redirect to it. This causes the site to slow down and will have a (small) negative effect on your rankings.

The same happens if you write:
http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france
instead of
http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/
to point a link to
http://www.domain.com/tours/europe/france/index.html

 

You are right there monfis. The ones without extensions are treated as directories so it kind of redirect to the ones with extensions as you mentioned. However, I believe the difference is not that big an is almost negligible. The advantage of removing the .html extension is for flexibility and compatibility. Let us say for example you have a website having pages with extensions like page.html, page.php or page.asp. Then one day you decided to use wordpress or drupal or joomla. If you are using CMS the most advisable permalink is category/postname or /postname. In that case, you need additional plugin to put extensions on your pages. Take note that using plugin makes the site load slower plus you need to check it every wordrpess updates.

 

The trend is of extentionless urls (i.e. without extensions) but from performance point and to avoid redirects, adding an extension is better.

 

Thanks every one. I got it and will apply my site