Interesting points Adi.
This is why you should stick to whats working. >1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSG6C33GwsE, Matt cutts saying somewhere you should have a extension, so some extension is better than no extension Hmm, I hear him say it more from a point of view of confusing users. Not really in relation to SERPs. In fact, he specifically states "it won't have an effect on your core ranking" near the end. >2. Even though Google might not care, you get traffic from other sources aswell, having a standard extension is better in getting crawled, indexed and ranked by other search engines Can you explain why? I get curious when I hear someone say it's just "better". >3. Do a search for "site:arstechnica.com" in google, you would find all pages for arstechnica site, there URLs are modded to use .ars, notice how the .ars pages actually start to appear in its index after 60th page onwards I'm not sure this is a very accurate example of any particular problem with modded extensions. The .ars pages you refer to all seem to be 4-5 years old. I did the same listing on the original poster's site, and there are more .logic pages higher up than .html extension. All that said, I don't even know what sort of ranking the "site" list outputs. I would have thought it would have been in order of index date DESC. >4. When a user sees your page in search engine result as http://www.site.com/page.html vs http://www.site.com/page.modurl, they are more likely to click on a known URL format, unless you expect a lot of techie types who don't care. This is true indeed. And as time goes on will only become more true. Really only applicable to modded extensions rather than no extensions at all. >5. When was the last time you searched for something and saw a modded URL ranking for your query? True dat. >6. Do you want to be Google Ginnie pig? Google says we index text in flash, do you start to put all your content in flash without considering how effective they are at doing so? Again true. Dropping extensions would really be classed as being a ginny pig however. It's been done for yonks. >7. What is the advantage or URL modding? I take it you mean extension modding. URL modding has huge benefits. Extension: None apart from a nifty effect really. Aaron -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
