page endings from a mod rewrite

mod rewrite and page endings

[carminejg3]

Hi I wanted to know what is the best way to end a mod rewrite....

/filepath/filename/

or
/filepath/filename/index.html

or
/filepath/filename.html

also does it matter in the engines how a page is ended?

[bill]

I prefer:

/filepath/filename/

This future-proofs your site to some degree. You could be using PHP today and ASP tomorrow, but your links will look the same.

[carminejg3]

Hi Bill,

Do you have any trouble with the serps?

[bill]

No trouble with the SERPs on those sites. What sort of trouble would you expect? Your website's home page is listed on all the SEs as http://www.example.com/ so why would http://www.example.com/product/ be a problem?

[carminejg3]

true...

but my www.example.com/filepath/filename

seems to not have a pr anymore, so I was curious what was up. Granted this is in an image gallery, just use to have pr. Also some of my other sections that only use

/filepath/filename/ and still lack some pr. So this sparked me into checking it out.

[bill]

You do realize that the PR toolbar is not to be taken at face value, if at all... It's hoplessly out of date and is only meant for entertainment purposes. ;)

[carminejg3]

yes, but when you click that magic button and view "cached snapshot of page" and nothing shows, something is up, when it use to.

I'm curious is g thinks the pages are either spam or since they are mostly pictures that there is littel content so they register as dup content with the page headers and footer taking up the most "Text" space.

[4string]

Be warned that Yahoo and MSN have a nasty habit of leaving off the trailing slash. All of my pages end with a trailing slash and I get many 404's from yahoo and msn SERPS when they drop it. It's getting better lately. The SERP link now uses the trailing slash, but the url is still displayed incorrectly.