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Maybe itīs a stupid question but I canīt find anything about it through searching the net and W3Cs HTML references.
Can it have influence on SE indexing if a URL change from lowercase to uppercase?
The first URL goes to a page where the second URL lead to another page again.
1. http;//www.somedomain.com/word-someotherword.asp
2. http;//www.somedomain.com/Word-Someotherword/Word.htm
Can this have some influence on the ranking and indexing of the page that link number 2 lead to?
Sincerely
Nano
I don't think you will find any difference with SE impact, but OS impact is a different story. Some OS are case-sensitive while others are not. I use lowercase for all directory and file names just for consistency and platform portability.
With Apache, only the exact same case for each individual letter, matching exactly what the file is actually called on the server, will result in the page being served. That is much better. It avoids the duplicate content problem inherent in IIS.
You want each page of the site to only have one canonical URL that can be used to access it. If you fail to do that, then you will have "duplicate content" problems to contend with, and especially so with Google.
