It's now safe to end your web page name with ".0"! (huh?)

Jun 14, 2008 at 1:49 AM
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Crazy!

According to Matt Cutt's blog, it's now safe to end a webpage name with ".0" (dot zero). Until today, a webpage that ended with ".0" (say, "mywebpage.0") wouldn't be indexed by Google. This wasn't widely known, and caused some problems when seomoz.org tried to post a page ending in ".0". When Google found out, they reconsidered, and made the changes necessary to allow Google to index those pages, too. Apparently, most files that end in ".0" are binary files, and Google tries not to index binary files. That's why those pages were originally excluded.

Along those same lines: It's still not okay to end a file in ".exe", ".tar", ".tgz" (and probably more) because these are file extensions for binary file types. Google won't index pages with names that end like that!

What's this mean to you? Stick with giving your web page file standard names like ".htm", ".html", or the extension to whatever scripting language you use...

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I have enough trouble wondering what the difference between .htm and .html is let alone bothering with other extensions (I do know what .exe is and a few endings that are automatic with various programs).

Sue Crutcher, Baby Steps to Success Expert

Interesting.
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Matthew Shields

Ummmm ok. I think I will just stick whatever extensions my website creator tool adds to the pages I create.

Sabrina Peterson

Personal Trainer and Weigth Loss Coach

There isn't any difference between .html and .htm -- it's just a matter of personal preference.

Sticking with what the web creater uses is a very good idea.

(I honestly don't know WHY anyone would want to use a .0 extension. That's weird. And, until yesterday, you were penalized by Google for it. That's a great reason to stick with what the web page creator tool uses!)

I never knew that, but then again, I thought every page had to end with a reference to the scripting language.

Also, I added your blog to the list on my website. I can't believe it wasn't there. If you have a website please let me know so I can link to that as well.

Steve Chambers
Sales Training Expert

Huh? Thanks......

as your romance coach and online dating coach inculcating for fun sexuality, i'm glad to hear it's safe to be BI anary with Google now.

All the best,

April Braswell
Romance Coach, Online Dating Coach

Andrew,

I hope I never have need to know this bit of information.

There is a lot of information that we don't have to keep in our brains anymore:

- with my cell phone, there are probably only about three people that I could call from a pay phone without checking my cellphone memory for the number (and those numbers were memorized before I got a cell phone)

- with the GPS, I no longer have to remember where anywhere I go is located exactly. I store them in favorites and they are there ready to go when I need them.

I wish I could say m brain is being used for more valuable things instead but it seems to be getting filled with Firefox CSS code mumbo-jumbo at the moment, and that is mighty painful.

Rob

www.corporateveilpro.com