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Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline: Don't End URLs in .0
- ComputerGuru 18y agoI'd bet it's a line or two of code that, at one point, seemed like a downright brilliant hack/idea to the engineer writing it - and, like so many other "inspired moments," it's come back to haunt... Definitely weird, though!
- mojuba 18y agoWas Google trying to prevent UNIX log files from indexing? Maybe man pages? In any case this looks just weird.
- nirmal 18y agolog files was my first thought :).
- jcl 18y agoThere are also some file compression/installer utilities (Stuffit, Innosetup) that split their contents to file extensions like .0 (.1, .2, etc.). If Google avoids indexing things like .tgz and .zip, it would make sense to avoid these binary files as well.
- drawkbox 18y agoReally you should make everything lower case, dashed delimited and keyword based. /Latest_Fad_About_Web.2.0 should be /latest-fad-about-web-2-0 This format is expected as of 2007ish. It helps immensely in making your url packed with keyword goodness that works on all case sensitive systems and spiders.
- ComputerGuru 18y agoExpected by whom? If you're saying Google expects this kind of URI format, then they should probably say so :)
- wmf 18y agoFixed: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dont-end-your-urls-with-exe/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dont-end-your-urls-with-exe/