Thread: Does having .asp hurt

Hello another question for you guys/girls.
I have a template site powered by Top Producer.
My home page is my website address /home.asp
Does this hurt my page rank or Search Engine Position with google?

It seems when searching for a keyword phrase-Milford CT Real Estate- some (a Lot) of the websites that rank higher then mine (I'm #93) are not very good some have a lot of ads and no content. Just wondering if this was bringing my site down.

I'd suggest that you get rid of the "home" part of that. the .asp doesn't matter IMO.

Secondly, if you go to http://tools.seobook.com/ you can get a free tool which puts an icon in the bottom right of your screen. You just click on it to activate it...when you do a search you get a wealth of information.

1. Milford Connecticut Real Estate. Homes for sale in the Milford ...
   
   Milford Connecticut real estate agent website designed to help you find homes for sale in Milford and New Haven County, Milford CT Coretti Homes for all ...
   corettihomes.com/ - 12k - Cached - Similar pages
   #83 | PR: 0 | Google Cache Date: Sep 6 2008 | Age: - | del.icio.us: - | Y! Links: 400 | Y! .edu Links: 0 | Y! .gov Links: 0 | Y! Page Links: 375 | Y! .edu Page Links: 0 | Technorati: - | Alexa: 9,941,639 | Compete.com Rank: 0 | Compete.com Uniques: 0 | Trends | Cached: 45 | dmoz: 0 | Bloglines: 0 | dir.yahoo.com: 1 | Botw: 0 | Whois

You can compare your stats with who is in #1 place.

1. Milford Homes for Sale. Real Estate in Milford, Connecticut
   
   Find the Milford, Connecticut Homes for Sale that you're looking for on homes.com. Search our website to locate your Homes for Sale in Milford, Connecticut.
   www.homes.com/Real_Estate/CT/City/MILFORD - 38k - Cached - Similar pages
   #1 | PR: 1 | Google Cache Date: Sep 7 2008 | Age: 02-1997 | del.icio.us: 165 | Y! Links: 403,000 | Y! .edu Links: 144 | Y! .gov Links: 10 | Y! Page Links: 17 | Y! .edu Page Links: 0 | Technorati: - | Alexa: 6,130 | Compete.com Rank: 887 | Compete.com Uniques: 1,645,260 | Trends | Cached: 1,150,000 | dmoz: 14 | Bloglines: 0 | dir.yahoo.com: 21 | Botw: 219 | Whois

Thank you for the helpful hint!!
If I get rid of the <home> then I lose the tab to navigate home from anypage.

Just rename all your .asp files into normal .html/.htm, whilest inserting
AddType application/x-httpd-asp .asp .htm .html
line into your .htaccess file.

If I were to rename all files it still puts an .asp at the end of the page. Its a template site from Top Producer/Realtor.com

Some template sites limit how much you can change the coding. Whether pages end in .asp, .php or .html shouldn't affect your ranking.

It actually does not matter what the extension is for the page. Some pages are generated with html, php, or asp. I have a website for my wife that uses .asp for the file extension for the pages themselves and this does not affect the search engines. I just built a page which focuses on a property that a long trail spans the entire Pinellas county area. As you can see the URL for it is .com/pages/PinellasTrail.aspx and while the "pages" part of its name is not helpful, it is well titled to suit the content of the page. This is ideal for page naming convention.

it does not matter

.asp is active server pages