Which is better for SEO - /contact/ or contact.html

[scanreg]

For marketing and user-friendliness, it's nicer to have:

/contact/

But, what about SEO? Is it better to go with:

/contact.html

I'm not sure if it matters to Goog or others

Thanks :)

[subseo]

It doesn't matter for search engines.

[jinomjoseph]

No matter with somename.html and /somename/ Search engines will index both.

www.topindiandirectory.com (http://www.topindiandirectory.com)

[Simon Gooffin]

I do also think there is no (great) difference in these both URL types. Each one is pretty good and indexed well by all SEs.

[Manish Mathukiya]

Guys, What is better according to you? Subdomain or Subpages?

[scanreg]

Thanks, All :)

[subseo]

Guys, What is better according to you? Subdomain or Subpages?
IMHO nowadays it's down to just a personal preference.

It's like that slightly older question: blondes or brunnettes? :fingal:

[Simon Gooffin]

Guys, What is better according to you? Subdomain or Subpages?
Personally I like subpages more :) You can see this yourself analyzing our site. We could make forums, demo, directory using subdomains. Instead we installed them in subdirectories. I can not say there are certain reasons for that. We just like this more :)