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sde · 02-12-2006, 12:28 AM

I was working with XSLT and wondering what the difference would be for search engine ranking between .xml and .html files.

Both pages could render the same to a user's browser, but would the engines favor a .html page? I can't think of many times I've got .xml pages in search results.

It seems like it would be easier for an engine to read through. Of course you could make it a .php page and set the content-type to text/xml, but I'm pretty sure they judge the content type by that and not the extension.

I'm just wondering if I were to launch a new site, if it would be smart to use xml/xsl or not.

02-12-2006, 12:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,489	XSLT and search engines I was working with XSLT and wondering what the difference would be for search engine ranking between .xml and .html files. Both pages could render the same to a user's browser, but would the engines favor a .html page? I can't think of many times I've got .xml pages in search results. It seems like it would be easier for an engine to read through. Of course you could make it a .php page and set the content-type to text/xml, but I'm pretty sure they judge the content type by that and not the extension. I'm just wondering if I were to launch a new site, if it would be smart to use xml/xsl or not.