I’m thinking about a good SEO Url strategy for a blog application. I’m not sure – and maybe it’s just the same – but what is better? With or without .html
/blog/entry_permalink_name.hml
VS
/blog/entry_permalink_name
What do you think?
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I’m thinking about a good SEO Url strategy for a blog application. I’m not sure – and maybe it’s just the same – but what is better? With or without .html
/blog/entry_permalink_name.hml
VS
/blog/entry_permalink_name
What do you think?
To answer directly you question, without the HTML is better SEO-wise. The search engines take keywords from the url into account. Now the more words or characters there are in the url the weaker the power of a given keyword.
It follows logically that there is no SEO advantage in adding ‘.html’ at the end of the url.
Similarly removing the blog bit would enhance the power of the keywords in the title but if you want to use ‘blog’ as a valuable keyword, leave it.
Keep in mind that the url is just one of many factors of optimization of a page for SEO, and not the most powerful at that. The common thinking here is that none of these optimization tricks make a substantial difference by themselves but they do cumulatively.