http://example.com/widget/ VS http://example.com/widget.html

Using default pages on your server

[imstillatwork]

Easy to read, easy to organise and a good long term plan for large websites is to use
http://example.com/widget/
http://example.com/red-widget/
http://example.com/blue-widget/
as your url for your widgets page.

typical, standard, 'normal' method would be http://example.com/widget.html
http://example.com/red-widget.html
http://example.com/blue-widget.html

Do search engines seem to care about this because technicaly, the folder only method will put you one level deeper on a lot of your urls. however, a lot of major site do the folder only method.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 1:20 pm (utc) on Aug. 13, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified URI References [/edit]

[goodroi]

Today it doesn't really matter. In the past it used to be helpful to have your files closer to the root.

[imstillatwork]

So for a site with very concise organisaion, the folder method is acceptable? I generaly don't do it, but this time I am, it just makes sense for this web site i'm working on.