Does This Make Sense?

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simmonsmike7

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Jun 29, 2008

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• Nov 3, 2008

• #1

I want to know if there is a difference between these two in the search engines eyes.

1. http://www.mywebsite.com/KEYWORD

OR

2. http://www.mywebsite.com/keyword.html

I need to know asap - because I am building a site with oscommerce and am having some issues.

Thanks.

 

aliskorn

Regular Member

Apr 21, 2008

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• Nov 3, 2008

• #2

Yes it is. 1 is a folder . It actually looks like this: www.mywebsite.com/KEYWORD/index.html

 

hade

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Jul 25, 2008

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• Nov 3, 2008

• #3

Yeah, the search engines will treat them differently, even if they display the same page.

 

sqlbyte

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Sep 22, 2008

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• Nov 3, 2008

• #4

I am not an expert, but i think that you can redirect website.com/KEYWORD to show up just like that, no need for /index.html
And that is OK for SE.
Or i am wrong ?

 

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disinfect

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Jan 22, 2008

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• Nov 3, 2008

• #5

There's no difference except how the URL looks like.

I think it's better to use a folder with an index file. It looks better in the URL bar and in the search engines. Just remember to link to your folder and not the index file.