.html or .htm extension which is good for search engine? Please Help! Hi, .html or .htm extension, which is good for search engine? Please Help!. What is the difference between .htm and .html. Please Help? Regards Ramki
If you haven't started to use any yet, I would recommend not using any extension at all. instead of: www.xxx.com/page.html use: www.xxx.com/page
Why? I would say that .htm is correct... but this has all to do with good standards rather than good SEO. The reason? HTML is what you have used to markup the text of the page. .htm is the extension.
The only problem is that if you change your default page to be index.php, then you have to mess around with redirects. THat won't be a problem for many though.
I kinda disagree. Search engine may find a file as 'page' and not showing it because it will try www.xxx.com/page/ without an index.htm(l) in it. www.xxx.com/page.htm is not www.xxx.com/page can be www.xxx.com/page/index.htm Otherwise, no difference...
Yea, it does'nt matter which one you use, both have the same effect with search engines. I do not recommend that you use xxx.com/page.
There is absolutely no difference between .htm and .html . To not have either means that every file needs to have it's own directory - that's just stupid (and absolutely not necessary either).
it makes no different, however when remembering urls, i remember .html better then i do .htm for some reason.
Okay, it seems like I was a bit fast here... What i understood with the question above was what kind of link is good to show search engines? right..?? I have tested with both. I recieved higher rankings with www.www.com/page then with www.www.com/page.html or htm or PHP. I'm not saying that you should build up your entire site like this. But if you are using a CMS system with PHP, and use an .htaccess file it's not a problem to define how the prefix should look like. Search engine may find a file as 'page' and not showing it because it will try www.xxx.com/page/ That happens when you give same names to more files.... After all it all depends on what you are able to do with your CMS system.
I agree, if you are talking about building up page manually. But if you are refering to CMS systems, then you are way off, sorry...
There's no difference for Search Engines .... but for Apache servers, by default, DirectoryIndex directive is set to: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm default.htm index.php index.php3 index.phtml index.php5 index.shtml mwindex.phtml Apache will look for each of the above files, in order, and serve the first one it finds when a visitor requests just a directory. If the webserver finds no files in the current directory that match names in the DirectoryIndex directive, then a directory listing will be displayed to the browser, showing all files in the current directory .