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Old February 23rd, 2006, 11:21 PM
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Does having a file extension matter?

I've just started rewriting my links for SEO, and currently there just persudo directory format - without a html extension at the end - and I was wondering whether that makes any difference in terms of SEO?

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When I see blblb/blbllb/bbjb I would assume that the last string after the / is another folder, and in such I would think there to be an index.ext

If you specify the exact url, you have just that an exact url.

In SEO terms there isn't much of a difference in which you do, unless there is a file in the folder that is different than the file you want to link to.
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When I see blblb/blbllb/bbjb I would assume that the last string after the / is another folder, and in such I would think there to be an index.ext

If you specify the exact url, you have just that an exact url.


Ok, well thanks for pointing that out, I think the average user would be familar with a target .html file. And I can imagine google might assume index.ext which could direct users to a "Page Not Found"
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the .ext (.xxx) was for any extention like it could be .php, .html, .xml those kind of things.
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