HTM or HTML?

[Verbal]

Does it matter which extension (HTM or HTML) you use in regards to optimizing your site for the search engines?
I always use index.html for my index page, and name everything else as .htm.
What do you guys think? |juggle|

[Surfn]

It doesn't matter, either one.

[Cleo]

I always try to link to directories and not pages if I'm able.

[Greenguy]

All the category pages on link-o-rama.com are .htm pages & I'm still getting SE results, so it probably doesn't matter as far as the SE spiders are concerned.

[DangerDave]

As long as Googlebot can find your default index.. it can be called anything you like

This will depend on your server setup and the way you link to sites/pages.

htm/html/shtml etc makes no diff...

As GG said.... Most of my pages are .shtml and all are ranked

DD

[Chop Smith]

I believe the only difference between .htm and .html is that Billy Gates could not handle a four letter extension.

[Verbal]

Nice, thanks. :)

Just one of those weird naming things I never knew if there was a standard for.

[Greenguy]

Originally posted by Chop Smith
I believe the only difference between .htm and .html is that Billy Gates could not handle a four letter extension. Chop - oddly enough, my original pages were designed partly on an old Windows 3.1 machine which of course meant they had to be .htm pages :D

Ahhh...the good old days of editing in Notepad :D

[Chop Smith]

Greenguy, when did you start wearing eye glasses?