BOK file

What the heck is this?

[SEOMike]

Hello. I've got a client that's using the filetype .bok. I have never heard of that before. Could someone fill me in? I've done a bunch of different filetype searches on Google and dug around elsewhere, but I can't find much information on this filetype. I also can not find another single page indexed by Google that's a .BOK.

Example:

widgets.com/some_dir/some_page.bok

Any ramifications with SEO from using this filetype that anyone knows of?

[iamlost]

The common use of the .bok extension is with Kurant StoreSense e-commerce storefront.

If this is your client's template system of choice it really really can benefit from SEO. Heavily overcoded, etc.

In the past I have renamed their dynamic urls from .bok to .html, etc. to ease SE indexing (haven't worked on such a site for a while). If the file extension still MIA in SERPs probably still a good idea to rename.

[SEOMike]

Ok. That's kind of what I thought. I have searched all over for that filetype and can't find a single file in the SERPS. Maybe I'm missing something, but I doubt it.

I was thinking of renaming the files to htm. I'm not familiar with this shopping cart program... will renaming the files cause any loss of functionality?

Also, the code behind those pages is HORRIBLE! I am very optimistic for the SEO improvements there, but the file name thing has me a little troubled.

[g1smd]

You can call your pages whatever you want, use whatever extension you want, even omit the extension - just as long as the page is served with the correct "text/html" MIME type in the HTTP header.