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I think (98%) that the pages will be seen as the same. If you have both on your server google will only list one.
Before I knew better, I used the format "domain.com/Widgets.htm" - with the capital letter.
However, some of my inbound links use the format: "domain.com/widgets.htm" - with lower case.
Until about a month ago, Google knew that they were the same page. But now I'm noticing that, in some cases, google is showing both pages separately in the SERPs - one following the other. I'm hoping that this is a temporary glitch, since I have some concern about these being considered duplicate pages.
I'd like change all of my pages so the names are all lower case, but I'm not sure if that would result in some unexpected complications. If anyone has any ideas about this, please let me know.
Beth
When I took on the nfp site I'm cutting my teeth on, it had a variety of file name structure such as ALLCAP.htm, only-small.htm, Mixed_Case.htm and even name split.htm (renders as name%20split.htm)
Not knowing any better at the time, I started out doing the same with new pages. Then I learned from folks here and elsewhere that, well, ick.
I've been converting file names over, as time permits, to
all-small.htm or allsmall.htm and doing permanent redirects
in htaccess. Seems all the se bots get a fair grip on the new name fairly easily save one. That one does find the new pages, but also comes around trying to slurp up pages that are long since gone. I have seen some lessening of the twilight zone hunts though so I presume it just takes it longer to purge than other bots.
Thanks for the help! I'm a dummy about redirects, but I know there's a bunch of info about that on this site. So I'll go take a look.
Beth
Maybe why Google sees them as different.
Editted: Thought about this a bit: Should read Apache and Zeus on UNIX systems treat different cases as different files. It is UNIX that causes this.
[edited by: PCInk at 11:21 am (utc) on Sep. 11, 2003]
Do craps in title count when searching on Google?
If so, there's no reason to put caps on titles as no one would put caps in their search queries.
Hey irock
I know spelling is not an issues but be careful what you wright :)
I believe in the older days of search engines CAPS did make a difference but I don't think anymore.
:)
When the changeover was finsished I noticed a huge increase in 404's due to the caps or no caps in the url's. I solved the problem with a custom 404 and have now changed all the urls to lower case only.
keyword_one_two_three.html
OR
keyword-one-two-three.html
?
How do you decide to name a page in singular or plural form?
ie. keyword.html versus keywords.html
The question you need to be asking yourself is;
Is keyword-keyword1-keyword2.com/keyword/keyword-one-two-three.html better than brandxyz.com/keyword.html?
