Results of an experiment. I'd like to hear others experiences as well. I have a site about airplanes. To break up the long page, I split it into 4 pages, naming the pages airplanes.htm, airplanes2.htm, airplanes3.htm, airplanes4.htm. I would have named the pages differently, but they really were all about the same thing, just an extension from the first page, so this kept things clear in my head. But the search engines don't seem to like it at all! Nowhere has indexed any more than the airplanes.htm. My advice, don't name your pages this way. Name the pages something, anything, just don't use the same keyword followed by numbers.
Yea , I always use unique urls and titles on each page, that airplane 123 thing , is not like I would have done something like information-on/airplanes information-on/keyword/airplanes and so on, Just my thougts
They're more to it than that, unless you're linking to all 4 pages identically (and I doubt you are) then it's plausable that you don't have enough backlinks to justify crawling your site that deep. airplanes airplanes1 airplanes2 airplanes3 airplanes4 Including your homepage... you've got to go anywhere from 3-6 links deep to find them. Gotta have some strong backlinks to crawl 6 links deep and index a page. What about heading and title tags? We're they all identical, or did they say "Airplanes, Page 1). If they were all identical that would hurt too. The file names really make no difference. This thread here at DP has a file name of showthread.php?t=114000 ... do you really think that 114001, 114002, 114003 and 114004 won't get indexed now?