does asp pages rank less than htm pages with search engines?

Just wondering if what i heard was true, i don't know much about asp currently, but i heard that it ranks worse than htm pages. True or False?

 

That's not true at all..

 

Its incorrect, you just have to keep mind few things while designing your pages, like taking care the viewstate of your pages appears in the bottom not top as in most the websites, because they hinder the path of google search bot. There are many more, just search on net. Hope it helps

 

nope, it does not

 

thanks guys for your input!!!!

 

It would be useless feature of seatch engines, imho. It's nevermind if document has either .htm or .asp extension. With the same result we can assign MIME-type for .htm so it will be executed as ASP-script by IIS engine.

 

I don't think so.

 

No, like for like it's untrue.

But a site with urls like "product.asp?id=117" will be slightly disadvantaged over one with urls like "bluewidgets.html"

But that's a design issue you can fix with urlrewriting if you're worried about it.

 

But be careful while using URL rewriting in ASP.NET . It has a bug which makes the pages unreachable by google

 

Hi the URL of the page matters a lot for google like search engines. Like for instance if you page URL is 'refridgeClean.html' it will be less recognized by google than a URL like "HowTOCleanRefridgerator.html"

extension of page does not matter in my opinion, whether its html, asp, aspx, cfm, jsp etc
Thanks