Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline, URLs that End in .0

[Bluey]

Found this an interesting read this morning.

Heres a couple of points that stood out amoung many in this article.

SOURCE: Unwritten Google Webmaster Guideline (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unwritten-google-webmaster-guideline-dont-end-urls-in-0) - by seomoz.org


Google would prefer not to make an official or public comment, but they did give us permission to share this tidbit. Naturally, we investigated deeper, and found that it's not just inadvisable, but literally impossible to get a URL indexed in Google's engine if it ends with a .0 (similar to how Google won't index file extensions ending in .exe or .tgz).


Out of Google's Index (but in Yahoo!):

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_4.0
* drupal.org/drupal-5.0
* keznews.com/3799_Vista_Transformation_Pack_8.0_Final_-_VTP_8.0
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_8.0
* drupal.org/drupal-6.0
* en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.0
* www.shopping.com/xGS-Illustrator_11.0
* www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_11.0
* www.shopping.com/xGS-Suse_9.0
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.0
* en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.0

In the index:

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
* drupal.org/drupal-5.0-beta1
* http://keznews.com/3799_Vista_Transformation_Pack_8_0_Final_-_VTP_8_0
* drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta1
* www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.3
* www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.2
* en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3




The rest of the article is an interesting read.
B.