URLs and Optimisation

Bit of a newbie question

[Skylo]

Would anyone be willing just to tell me in terms of optimisation, if one has a site that has an URL that seems to change could you optimise for each page. I mean sometimes I will type in my URL and it will come up as widget.com/default.asp and other times it comes up as widget.com/ do you guys get my drift. Sorry for posting this but couldn't find anything on it<@:-)

[dmorison]

Not an answer to your question; but the differing URL "problem" happens when a website has a static menu system (or any internal link) that links directly to the default page by name, rather than letting the webserver serve the default document out of the root directory.

If your site is:

[example.com...]

Then a link within your site to take someone back to the home page should be:

<a href='/'>Home</a>

and not:

<a href='default.asp'>Home</a>

If you do not reference "default.asp" at all within your HTML then it could never be picked up by a search engine or appear in the users address bar.

[Skylo]

Thanks dmorison. I thought so. No someone at workasked me the same question and I had no idea how to answer it but you have straightened that out.
Cheers mate