How can I create html files without the extension and how to deal with Joomla pages with long URLs?

Question

Extensions add nothing of value to the URL and are bad for search engine rankings. I know I can create a new directory with a index.html file but I have heard there are better ways to do this. How should I proceed to remove .html extensions from every pages on my website?
I do not want www.example.com/stuff.html
I want www.example.com/stuff
I do not want to create index.html files every times because these are bad for search engine rankings.

My website was built with Joomla. In addition to pages with extensions, I often have pages with ugly things in the URL such as "index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=6&Itemid=29"
How can I simplify this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

go to extensions.joomla.org and there are many SEF plugins. This meaning search engine friendly. It's a module that re-writes your .htaccess file to have search enginge friendly url's. The only problem i've come across is joomla with its stupid article id's. I'm sure there are tutuorials on those extensions as well.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You're right - HTML is the fundamental document structure of the web. I've seen a few exemptions in my time, but they weren't compatible on most browsers and certainly didn't work correctly. For instance, a friend of mine just uploaded a PDF with links to other parts of the PDF in it. In Safari 4 on a Mac, it displayed the PDF in the browser window and followed the links. In everything else though, it asked you to downloaded it to your computer first. So yeah, HTML is the core of the web, the one markup language that ALL browsers are designed to support. EDIT: To respond to the first answer, even Flash websites still need an HTML document to embed themselves into, else you are just viewing a .SWF file in your browser window, and who knows how that's going to react? For starters, it'll resize to always fit the window - not very good on mobile devices!

Answer 3

Hi,



there are many joomla components and extensions out there which solve your problem...



http://extensions.joomla.org/ would be a great start.. look for SEF (Search Friendly URLs) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

Answer 4

If you're on a Linux server, look into the syntax of .htaccess rewriting rules. If you're on a Windows server, my condolences.

Answer 5

tutorials-

http://mysqltutorial.info/