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Re: What Filetypes will Search Engine Follow?

  • Subject: Re: What Filetypes will Search Engine Follow?
  • From: Ignoramus32489 <ignoramus32489@NOSPAM.32489.invalid>
  • Date: 14 Jun 2005 14:49:27 GMT
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
  • Organization: Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com
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Pretty much any extension will work, as long as the MIME type is
right. I have webpages with extensions .lesson, .solver, .wikipedia,
etc etc etc. (these do not actually map to the filesystem) It is all
indexed by google, thankfully.

i

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 04:52:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of questions which I could not find an answer to on the Web.
>
> 1. What files will search engines follow? I have seen Google descending into
> text files, files without any extension and even C files.
>
> 2. Will a site get penalised for links to images that do not exist or for
> broken images? What about files as in the above? Data files that no longer
> exist... should they be mended/removed for the sake of SEO?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roy


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