Chetan
There was recently a buzz regarding the web 2.0 award held by Seomoz.org after which the PR7 page got completely de-indexed from Google and the PR7 changed to a complete gray bar. First there was no reason that strongly could hold the answer for it, but then the SEO’s after some research could just conclude that it was the “0″ ending in the URL that led to the penalty.
Then Jane from Seomoz had kept in touch with Google and they have finally come to a conclusion that URL ending with a “0″ will not be in the index of Google and that’s why the web 2.0 awards pages were penalized. Later, Matt Cutts said that they finally are allowing and crawling pages with 0 ending URLs.
Here is what Matt says -
Even though urls ending in “.0? are often binary and therefore end up getting dropped later in our indexing pipeline, it’s always good to revisit old decisions and respond to feedback by running new tests. So just in the last day or so, we switched it so that Google is willing to crawl pages that end in in “.0?. This will help the small number of pages out on the web that want to serve up HTML pages with a “.0? extension.
But still, Google will not be able to crawl web content that ends with extensions such as .exe or .dll etc. as that all has binary data which can not be entirely crawled and so they are just termed as “Meaningless blobs” according to Matt, and so they don’t get indexed at all.
Better to use some other extension in your URL to make Google crawl them better.
How to see whether Google crawls a particular extension -
As its the filetype that you are going to check, whether it gets indexed or not, so you just have to enter the search as “filetype:.exe” to check whether .exe extensions are being indexed or not. You would see no results for that. The same goes with .dll too.
So be careful when uploading some binary files on the web, by bettering their URL extension with some other ones which are actually getting indexed.
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Thanx for infrmation, I don’t know that!
I really liked the flexibility Google is incorporating with their search. “They switched it On” sounds cool.
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definitely. I haven’t seen yet any google search result with .exe format
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I haven’t seen you on any blogs that I normally do. I can see your still posting, so that is good.
Great info! this kind of extensions are mostly binary ie not-very-indexable files, so avoid URLs ending with binary files extensions.
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Good info found Chetan .. Thanx for Sharing
Didnt knew about this, nice news about google not indexed some kind of extentions!
Good info but you’re wrong. The search string is actually “filetype:exe” there’s no period. You will see that there are quite a few exe and dlls indexed (filetype:dll)