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Anyone Have Any Experience Optimizing .CFM Pages?

Just wondering if having a whole site in .cfm will hurt SEO?

         

SumOne

7:47 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Just wondering if having a whole site in .cfm will hurt SEO efforts? Anyone have any experience with this?

bakedjake

8:15 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Google doesn't care about the actual file extension .cfm (or any extension, for that matter):

[webmasterworld.com...]

You need to be mindful of parameters to CFM files. I do believe that ColdFusion does have a magic switch that will let you turn question-mark parameters into folder-looking ones without any external software. Use that from the get-go if you can. Other than that, optimize like you normally would.

And welcome to WebmasterWorld, SumOne!

airpal

8:30 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have experience with very large coldfusion sites and they get indexed just as well as any other type of extensions. However, the more arguments (i.e.?, =, &) that you add to your URL, the less "inclined" googlebot is to spider your pages.

SumOne

9:03 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

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thanks for the responses, and for the welcome, bakedjake! the site doesn't have any?=&, just default.cfm, about.cfm, resources.cfm etc. hopefully i shouldnt have any problems, thanks again.