Does having a file type on the end of a url affect rankings (example www.fourcolormagnets.com/business-cards.php VS www.fourcolormagnets.com/business-cards)????
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Does having a file type on the end of a url affect rankings (example www.fourcolormagnets.com/business-cards.php VS www.fourcolormagnets.com/business-cards)????
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The bad things about programming extensions, php, pl, asp and others are:
- that you are telling people the code on your site
- that you are adding one more thing that people need to remember
- you are obfuscating your link name
As josh says, it doesn't make any difference to the search engines, but the lack of the extension is cleaner.
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Thanks for the quick response.
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I can tell you from experience that it doesn't matter. In fact, Matt Cutts suggested (quite some time ago, mind you) to keep the extensions. I almost never keep the extensions myself, and have not been given a reason to think it matters.
Here's the vid from Matt Cutts:
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