Does using index.php affect search engine rankings?

[Dynamo]

Not sure if this is the right group for this question but here goes anyway.

Does using index.php instead of index.htm affect the way that your site is
crawled by major search engines? Reason I ask is that I have 2 sites. The site
using index.php has no other pages listed against it when you click on the "More
pages from this site" link within Yahoo and Lycos. The site using index.htm is
correctly listed.

Apologies if this is the wrong group

TIA
Dynamo

[JDS]

Re: Does using index.php affect search engine rankings?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:59:26 -0700, Dynamo wrote:
[color=blue]
> Not sure if this is the right group for this question but here goes anyway.
>
> Does using index.php instead of index.htm affect the way that your site is
> crawled by major search engines? Reason I ask is that I have 2 sites. The site
> using index.php has no other pages listed against it when you click on the "More
> pages from this site" link within Yahoo and Lycos. The site using index.htm is
> correctly listed.
>
> Apologies if this is the wrong group
>
> TIA
> Dynamo[/color]

Almost certainly not, is the answer.

If there are a lot of links out "in the wild" that point to index.htm and
zero links "in the wild" that point to index.php, well, *that* would
affect page ranks. But using .htm vs .php should not matter.

A site crawler can only crawl across pages that it can find. If there are
no links anywhere that point to "index.php" then the crawler will never
see it.

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