Page naming for Google - does it matter?

[cutmoney]

I was just wondering if there is any better format to name pages in order to increase my Google ratings. For example, does it hurt that I have a page named "[phone].html"? It is very useful for customers since it is our phone number, but I'm not sure if this upsets the Googlebots.

Most of my pages and directories are named with some relevant search term, but this page serves a different purpose. However, this is my second page on the site and contains quite a bit of info. Please let me know what is best here, thanks!

[walrus]

If it would'nt take long to change do it, would be more beneficial named something on topic, not sure if Google counts filenames but many of them do.

[moishe]

There is no doubt that Google looks at file names as part of its' algo, what weight they carry is a whole other story. It would seem that for what you are doing you would want to put the phone number first in the page title, then it shows up top left on the visitors browser. As to search benefit, how likely is it that someone will search Google for your phone number, it seems that you would want to provide people with your phone number once they have found your site rather than try to make it easy for people to find your site by entering the number in a search box.

That being said, concentrate your key word efforts on terms that people are likely to search for. If your site is about blue widgets in Texas, help them find you that way, then give them a number to reach you.