Hi guys..I'm using apache's mod rewrite to eliminate funky urls in my website.
So that it is easier, I"m using regular expression, and all links that have the imaginary file extension .jwd should redirect to a PHP file...
I'm wondering that since .jwd is imaginary and is not a real web application extension, will that freak Google and other search engines out, and make them not index those .jwd links?
I would think that it's to risky to us a file extension like that. This is because if it's just made up then Google probably won't index the pages with them file extensions.
I would imagin that Google would have a file that lists all of the extensions that it allows it's search engine to index.
These include things like:
.php
.htm
.html
.cgi
.asp
etc.
I would imagin that if they didn't use some sort of system like this, then you will be seeing other files listed within the Googles search results like images with .gif and jpg extensions, word and excel documents etc.
If Google doesn't know about your file file extension, then they won't include it into their file that are allowed to be listed.
thanks....I wanted to use .jwd so that it won't conflict with any other extensions in the directory...but now i guess I'll just use .asp since I don't have any asp file in my directory
DAarkskys are you kidding me? Not only did you leave out htm, html, php, aspx but:
eBay uses .dll and they get indexed without a problem. .dll is a made up extension just like yours. Also check this site out, it uses .dll and is indexed 3rd on google:
It will index them, only I don't know if it will be higher ranked then a regular .html. I myself don't know about that, but I do know major sites change their ext to .html so .html must have some kind of impact.
