htm pages spidered and jsp pages ignored?

[rharri]

I'm pretty new to building a web site. All our important pages are *.jsp but we have a bunch of *.htm pages that contain small bits of information and user guidance.

Googlebot and other spiders seem to be indexing the *.htm pages and not the *.jsp pages. Am I correct that I screwed up by using this naming convention and is there some way I can direct the spiders to the *.jsp pages?

Thanks,
rharri

[agerhart]

rharri,

Google and other search engines do not care what extensions your web pages have, whether it be .asp, .jsp, .html, ,htm, etc.

We have been very successful working with .jsp sites, and I know that many others have.

You should analyze your website for other reasons that the search engines may not be reaching/indexing these pages.

[rharri]

All the files are in the root directory. All the htm files begin with the prefix "hnt" but the jsp files begin with varied letters. There is a robots.txt file but it allows all spiders and only excludes a few subdirectories. Perhaps I've not waited long enough? The root directory has ~ 80 files. Should a spider take them all in one fell swoop or should it take several passes?