Naming the HTM file

index.htm or relevant.htm?

[madmatt69]

Question - Someone was telling me the other day that by naming an htm file 'index.htm' makes the spiders crawl it as though it's the beginning page of a new site, and somehow that helps your rankings.

But I've also read that naming your page with a keyword i.e if you have a page about baseball on your site, you'd call it baseball.htm, then the spiders will look at the title as another keyword.

So what I'm asking is, in this particular instance, would it be better to name a file "mysite.com/baseball/index.htm" or "mysite.com/baseball/baseball.htm"??

Thanks for any suggestions - Hope I made the question clear :) Cheers

[agerhart]

Madmatt,

If the page in question is the start page, it is better to name the file index.htm, default.htm, or home.htm.

When digging into the site, it is helpful to name files according to the keywords that you are targeting.

[Macguru]

It is true that robots and browsers will look for index.htm, home.htm or default.htm at all directory level of a site. But internal site linkage rarely end with a "/" and spiders rely a lot on internal linkage to find new pages.

Try to diversify your keyword in URL a little, such as:

mysite.com/baseball/bat.htm
mysite.com/baseball/ball.htm
mysite.com/baseball/glove.htm

Put all baseball related pages into the baseball directory.

P.S. keywords in url are not as good it used to.

[madmatt69]

Thanks for the info guys - Good to know!