including .htm on your pages? whats the benifits?

by entry

Posted: 15 years ago 5 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

There are 2/3 versions of your website pages which you can have:

including .htm ?
www . yoursite. com/Newpage
www . yoursite. com/Newpage/htm
www . yoursite. com/Newpage/html

I was woundering what the benifits are of including .htm ? whats the benifits for SEO purposes?

Whats wrong with just using this first version (excluding the /htm)...
www . yoursite. com/Newpage
dont the SEOs/google like this format?

is it seen as an unsafe link?
(compared to the www . yoursite. com/Newpage/htm)

??

#benifits #htm #including #pages

jasonl70

15 years ago

Yor examples aren't really that clear, but I will take a stab at them...

the first example looks liek its just a sub-directory.. the webserver will automaticly serve up the default file (usually an index.html) within that directory.

the second example is from back when microsoft only allowed 3 letters for it's extensions. They stuck with it for quite a while though - they like to do things that run counter to established standards.

the last example is the standard.

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Philarmon

15 years ago

I guess you meant /Newpage.html (not "/Newpage/html" as this makes no sense at all) ?

Well, i didn't followed it lately but like 2 years ago Google was so funny that it have deducted 1 PR point for each "subfolder" level of your website. Normally, if your main page had PR 5 and you have linked from it directly to a subpage, the subpage would become a PR 4 (this still vary on some on-page factors but it is (or was) a general rule. But back then if you have linked to a subpage like "mydomain.com/subpage" it would become a PR 3 - just because Google has (internally) converted this address to "mydomain.com/subpage/index.html", so there was a subfolder level in between. So it was better to add extensions to the end of your links: "mydomain.com/subpage.html" resides on the same level as your main page.

Like i said, i didn't followed this lately but i still do all my links in the old school style: mydomain.com/subpage.html

What extension do you have (.php, .htm or .html) really does not matter - it was just about the "subfolders". A few years ago Google had problems with some uncommon extensions, but i guess now they are indexing pretty much everything.

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biggerdunk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Philarmon

This has got me kinda worried as I tend to have a alot of subfolders just for my own organization really...is this still the case then that google demotes your page ranking if it it' in a subfolder(s)?