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    Is it Google or Yahoo??
     
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    Yes I am totally agree with this concept because domain name on search engine is not case sensitive
    Example : if you write xyz.com or XYZ.COM both are same because you defined these things on your server from .htaccess file
    On Other hand these things are not applicable with your sub-directory or your site pages
    Example : If your site has two different page names xyz.com/deepak.html or xyz.com/DeePak.html on this deepak.html and DeePak.html both are diffrent html pages not same.
    So that's why google consider both have diffrent.
     
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    Well I am no expert in SEO, but this might help:

    "Well, it seems if your page is hosted in Windows, links will get to your pages regardless of capitalization (or lack of it). So if the search engine indexed your page when it was www.example.com/page01.htm, it will still find it even if you renamed it www.example.com/PAGE01.htm (but read on, as there ARE ways that capitalization might effect you).

    In a Linux or Unix-based environment, things are a little different. The good news is that the base URL (www.example.com) will resolve correctly regardless of capitalization. The (potentially) bad news is that the other pages will not. So if your site is hosted in a Linux/Unix environment and you rename your page www.example.com/PopularPage.htm to www.example.com/popularpage.htm, you could suddenly find yourself facing a drop in traffic as people clicking on the search engine link get a 404 error telling them that the page can not be found! Of course, search engines do crawl through the web and update their indices from time to time, so your page would probably get corrected in most search engines ... eventually. In the mean time, however, you lose traffic, potential revenue, and possibly links from other sites, all because people just gave up on your page when they got a 404 error. (And of course any existing user bookmarks or links from sites other than search engines will have the same problem as the search engines and might take longer ... or forever .. to get fixed).

    So what's a webmaster to do? Well, ideally decide on a "case convention" you can stick with at the start. Think long and hard before changing the case of a page, particularly if it draws a lot of visitors who come directly to it from search engines/links/bookmarks. If you feel you must change the case of these pages, you might want to make sure that you have a custom 404 error page with a link to enable visitors to find your main index page and perhaps links to several of your other important pages as well. For a really important page, you might want to create another page with the URL in the original case, giving your visitors a link to the "new" page, perhaps automatically forwarding them there. (www.example.com/PAGE01.htm forwards to www.example.com/page01.htm and so on)."

    Source:http://www.coolnotions.com/Articles/Article_02.htm
     
    nab, Jul 10, 2010 IP