Will removing “.html” from my URLs help my site? - SEO Snippets

In this episode of SEO Snippets, John Mueller gives you the quick answer on whether removing ".html" from your URLs actually helps your site. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

[xxcybercrashxx]

Thank you so much for this. Indeed something I have always struggled with in my head and went back and forth with it. THANK YOU

[karlanders]

Hi, We've a #1 ranking business website with a 7 year old url with the format city-keyword-keyword.tld, we've a new service & cover many more cities which means this url is not great anymore.

We're thinking of switching to our actual business name which is 29 characters long & not keywordy. What would you do? Almost everyone in our industry has keywordy urls (we know we need to change backlinks etc and it will be a lot of work)

Please advise. We're in a market with tough competition but the url is no longer as relevent to our business but we don't want to lose our rankings or business due to this.

[YTscoddy]

You often talk about redirects. Is there a time, how long to use those redirects?

[djmarceloastorga]

Great! .html is not necessary. Thank you for your videos !.