Re: Does using index.php affect search engine rankings?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:59:26 -0700, Dynamo wrote:

> Not sure if this is the right group for this question but here goes anyway.
>
> Does using index.php instead of index.htm affect the way that your site is
> crawled by major search engines? Reason I ask is that I have 2 sites. The site
> using index.php has no other pages listed against it when you click on the "More
> pages from this site" link within Yahoo and Lycos. The site using index.htm is
> correctly listed.
>
> Apologies if this is the wrong group
>
> TIA
> Dynamo

Almost certainly not, is the answer.

If there are a lot of links out "in the wild" that point to index.htm and
zero links "in the wild" that point to index.php, well, *that* would
affect page ranks. But using .htm vs .php should not matter.

A site crawler can only crawl across pages that it can find. If there are
no links anywhere that point to "index.php" then the crawler will never
see it.

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