Which type of mod rewrite is better?

Well i have to mod rewrite a site which is using a custom PHP Script. What kind of URLs should i go for. -

1 http://www.sitename.com/page-title/
2 http://www.sitename.com/page-title.html
3 Both has same value

Suggestions are needed for this !!!

regards
aditya

 

I would say that they hold the same value.

I'll try to dig up some literature on the subject and will post it here.

 

I don't know in terms of spiders and SEO, but "normal" users like pages with .html more imo.

 

I prefer the .html ones.

 

i prefer too second options because search engines like html extension pages

 

I think both have the same value, the length of each url is the same so each keyword in both urls would get the same amount of 'relevance'.

 

I think they both have the same value. I would go with the former if you are rewriting dynamic pages. Include the trailing slash in your links to those pages.

Just be sure not to change the URLs of existing pages without 301 redirecting the old URLs to the new URLs or you will lose search engine value on the site.

 

I also prefer the .html one. single level deep pages.

 

i prefer .html but it should be correctly done.
If you have a product-category/ it should be a list of products (index.html) and direct product-category/name-of-a-product.html should be a detailed description. That's what i prefer.

 

i prefer .html page instead of deep linking like in /folder/