Indexing the .cfm or .cfml extension...

Concerns about FAST, Inktomi, etc.

[Canton]

I've recently read in a pretty good resource that FAST does not index .cfm and .cfml pages and that Inktomi will index them but won't follow links for a deep crawl...

I've actually submitted sites done entirely in Cold Fusion (.cfm extension) and had pages (or at least the home page) indexed in FAST, so I'm not sure the information I read is accurate.

For the most part, I'm just using .cfm extensions because that's what I like to work in, these aren't really dynamic sites and of course the URLs don't include symbols (?, &, =, etc.).

Any comments, information?

[agerhart]

Most search engines will index sites that use CFM, ASP, and all the rest of the extensions.

Some of the SE's, like Google, will even index the URL's with a ? in them, but only when the keyword search in not competitive. They will index them but not to the same extent.

[Canton]

Thanks Agerhart...my concern still exists though, due to the fact that sources typically note that "most" search engines will index such pages...is there a definitive list of which will not index .cfm pages? I ask merely because every site that we promote in the future will be in CF and have such extensions.

[EliteWeb]

My website used to be pure .cfm extensions and i was top of all engines. had no problems =)~

[jatar_k]

I have had a couple of client sites that are exclusively cfm be spidered and rank well for competitive terms