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  • #595375
    Anonymous
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    Do search engines prefer certain extensions? For example:

    Is any one way better than the other?

    1. Name them .html
    2. Name them .htm
    3. Put the page in a folder with an index page (.htm or .html)

    Does it really make any difference?

    dalster44

    #697807
    Anonymous
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    It is my understanding that the extention doesn’t matter (at least not any of the common ones ie html, htm, php etc.) but that putting them in a folder does hurt the results. I do not fully understand why, or truely know if this is so.

    My theory as to why this may be true, if it is true: I could see g00gle considering something in a folder less important, or less related to the main topic of the website.

    I am no SEO expert (I ran my site for years without knowing what SEO meant, I used word of mouth in the real world to get sign ups) I am interested to see other points of view!

    #697832
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I agree that .htm or .html make no difference, however the folder may hinder seo.

    #697833
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Pokerlistings doesn’t use any extension at all on their subpages. I figure any site that is that successful knows what they are doing, and it might be a good idea to follow suit. Not that the other extensions are detrimental or anything. Just a thought.

    #697849
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    a folder reduces pr

    #697858
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    elgoog wrote:
    a folder reduces pr

    Interesting, is that 100% fact

    #697862
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Hello,

    We used many folders in out BG site xxhttp://www.onlinegammon.ws with the approach that we would like the URL of each sub page to have the “topic keyword”. Althought sun folder pages got lower PR (4 while the level 0 pages are 5) we get good traffic to the sub pages from google / MSN.

    Anyone know an article about this folder thing ? On the topic of successfull sites such as pokerlistings, I have noticed that xxhttp://www.launchpoker.com uses many folder and is very successfull. Any thoughts?

    #697863
    Anonymous
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    exacty as you stated, a new folder reduces pr with 1 point, but you can use a keyword in the foldername

    for me its a fact for over years
    do a search on webmasterworld

    ill be leaving now camping in France with my son

    cya all in 2 weeks!

    #697866
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    So if folders are not a good idea, is anyone using an alternative method to categorize or perhaps group their pages? As a site grows and more pages are added, I can see this getting a little out of hand with 100+ pages.

    #697877
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Just a thought if sub folders reduce the PR by one (1), does anyone have any ideas about using sub domains for this purpose?

    EG instead of using yourdomain.com/casino-forum/

    use casino-forum.yourdomain.com

    Years ago sub domains were some what frowned upon, however, I’ve seen a number of these aquire top (spot 1) SERP’s at many SE’s lately.

    Any one with any ideas?

    #697889
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I think the main issue with sub domains are duplicate content. In other words, if you have casino.yourcasinoportal.com with the same content as your main pages there would be a problem. Otherwise, I have seen many subdomains in google results.

    #697896
    Anonymous
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    occ wrote:
    I think the main issue with sub domains are duplicate content. In other words, if you have casino.yourcasinoportal.com with the same content as your main pages there would be a problem. Otherwise, I have seen many subdomains in google results.

    Granted the sub-domain content theoretically resides in a directory, but, it points to whatever.yourdomain.com I’d think then that it would be more favourable to use a sub-domain as apposed to a directory.

    #697897
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    dalster44 wrote:
    Do search engines prefer certain extensions? For example:

    Is any one way better than the other?

    1. Name them .html
    2. Name them .htm
    3. Put the page in a folder with an index page (.htm or .html)

    Does it really make any difference?

    dalster44

    Typically back in the old days (I’m talking mid 90’s) *.html was normally reserved for Unix and *.htm was for Win Boxes. These days I don’t think it makes any difference, though I’m not a Win box guy.

    #698014
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Subdirectories DO NOT reduce PR by anything,

    You could have domain.com/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/
    and if it has identical links to domain/foo/ – it will have the same PR.

    URL structure has nothing to do with it – (internal) linking determines the PR.

    #698099
    Anonymous
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    Nick0r wrote:
    Subdirectories DO NOT reduce PR by anything,

    You could have domain.com/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/
    and if it has identical links to domain/foo/ – it will have the same PR.

    URL structure has nothing to do with it – (internal) linking determines the PR.

    Yep. Subdirectories do have an effect on the SERPS – but nothing to do with PR.

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