Hey all, would it be better to have extensions in url? .html maybe? I've seen almost all scripts that use mod_rewrite have .html at the end. would http://domain.com/keyword.html be better than just http://domain.com/keyword for seo?
It does not matter for SE's . for which extension you are making page. it will be treated the same. Well i have seen many sites, for which page actually made in .php or .aspx and redirected to keyword or keyword.html... you can choose any one out of both...
But it can make a difference For example, lets say that one of your keywords is 'tv', you can rewrite your URLs so that they appear as website.com/category/file-name.tv
It will affect a bit but not a lot.. this additional bit will not contribute if your content does not contain and 'tv' keywords..
I don't think it matters, the /nodename is probabliy jsut as effective as /nodename.html Search engines often consider it a directory. Since Search engines read keywords from both folders and files it should be just as effective. Search engines now days read dynamic urls(not as pretty) so I wouldn't worry about adding .html, I think its usually ignored anyways. you could put /name.kvnfvfd and Google would be like mmm just another extension.
i actually dont see a difference even with a dynamic url(with few proper variables) and a .html as i have got good results with a site which i made the dynamic urls like .com/hotels.aspx Town=London .com/reservations.aspx?Hotel=Albany-Hotel
Thats because Google and Yahoo have better technology these days than they used to. I still like doing the mod rewrite because it makes the urls look a lot cleaner, plus it gets better support from search engines that don't know how to read dynamic urls. However for some stuff, like plugins I just add a get var, for example: /hotels/London/?page_hotels=2&page_news=1 It doesn't matter if the page_ vars are there because it just looks at the first few slashes. There are no significant keywords after the last /'s.