.html or /example/ which is better?

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Is it better for SEO and pagerank purposes to have your domain like this

www.example.com/dogtrainingtips.html

or

www.example.com/dogtrainingtips/

Does it look better to google or other engines if you use a directory style for your pages?
#search engine optimization #html #or example or
  • Lets do a couple of test:

    Test 1 - go to google and do a search for Thomas Jefferson. Out of about 16,200,000 results, the top 3 results are:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
    whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/thomasjefferson
    monticello.org/

    Notice that none of the first results have the .html extension.

    Its not until about the 5th and 6th result that we see the first .html result.

    brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html
    sc94.ameslab.gov/tour/tjefferson.html

    But then the results go back to the / without the .html extension

    etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
    memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/
    millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jefferson
    jefferson.edu/

    Out of 10+ results for Thomas Jefferson on the first page of google - news, images, websites,,, only 2 had the .html extension.

    Test 2 - A search for George Washington shows similar results, with only 1 page in the top ten with .html.

    Test 3 - a search of google for the word news - not a single result on the first page uses the .html extension.

    Do your own test with popular keywords and draw your own conclusion.

    But it appears to me that / outranks .html.
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