On search engines like Google there will be an adverse effect on optimization when using coldfusion. Remember Google is a "Hypertextual Web Search Engine"
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
I was ignoring this thread as off-topic, but this brings up an on-topic point.
ColdFusion outputs html. As does PHP, JSP, ASP, shtml, and all the rest. Google and other search engines do not look at the file extension, but at the MIME-type that is delivered; ColdFusion is sent as text/html.
The reason they watch the MIME-type is that those are standardized, whereas file extensions are merely conventions. I could serve all my pages as .jpg and my images as .txt, and only a couple foolish browsers would have a problem (you are free to guess which).
In fact, I serve all my ColdFusion pages as .html because I migrated a static site to ColdFusion and it was easier to tell Apache to send .html file to ColdFusion than to change all the extensions and links.
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