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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
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!
I agree that .htm or .html make no difference, however the folder may hinder seo.
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.
a folder reduces pr
elgoog wrote:a folder reduces prInteresting, is that 100% fact
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?
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
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
