URLS that end in / or html?

Any weighting difference?

[badass101]

Hi all,

I use Drupal for my website and the articles all end up being www.widget.com/article1 rather than www.widget.com/article1.html

Do you think this makes any difference in search engine ranking and also in search engine indexing. I'm assuming the engines will think it's a directory, not a file.

Comments/thoughts?

Craig

[bill]

As long as your server is serving up the correct pages, then no, this wouldn't have any impact on SEO or the SEs. The biggest benefit of these cruft-free URLs you're generating is future proofing of your site. You could be using PHP, ASP, HTML or any other type of file but now there's no need to change file extensions.