Adding index.html to links, Good or Bad?

Is adding index.html to links, Good or Bad?

[SoftwareLab]

Hi,

I just discovered this great site. Thanks to all those who help out us less savvy people. :-)

Someone recommended that I add index.html to all of my links. Let's say my homepage has a link to /business/. If I change it to /business/index.html then Google might give me a penalty because I will no longer have any links to /business/

What do you think? Should I take the risk?

Thanks,
Paul

[pageoneresults]

What do you think? Should I take the risk?

No! You've formatted the links properly for a root level URI. There is no need to add index.html.

Someone recommended that I add index.html to all of my links.

Who told you that? ;)

You can link to either or. The preferred method would be

/business/

[SoftwareLab]

Thanks for the fast reply pageoneresults! Someone at [snip] made that suggestion, but I'll definitely take your advice. :)

Paul

[edited by: pageoneresults at 9:22 pm (utc) on May 3, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed URI - Please refer to TOS, thanks. [/edit]

[JonR28]

yeah, I don't think it really matters either way. Most people don't include the index.html though.

[sniffer]

it helps to have the format

/business

if you are referring people to that page away from the computer eg in a paper advertisement. I think it looks better and there's less room for error too