FLUID-6485: Hide file extension(.html) on every url

Description

For SEO, there is a need for pretty URLS.Stripping off html extensions from deployed files move towards achieving it.
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Environments

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Node: 12.13.1
Chrome: 80.0.3987.122 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Comments

• Justin Obara commented 2020-04-08T07:08:44.497-0400

  @@Bate martins, which site(s) is this for?

• Bate martins commented 2020-04-08T07:26:26.040-0400

  Justin Obara its for the infusion's documentation site https://docs.fluidproject.org/infusion/development/

• Gregor Moss commented 2020-04-13T16:11:45.465-0400

  Thanks for filing this, Batey. I've taken a quick look at your PR as well.

  Google says that having file extensions at the end of URLs doesn't actually affect their search results. Stability in a site's URLs and the accuracy of them is more important. For some more info on this, here's a Q&A video from one of Google's employees that addresses this question: https://youtu.be/xMIW3i37YeY

  With that in mind, I feel we should defer discussion of this work until we start the transition to another static site generator.

  More generally, trying to do SEO work is a little bit like an arms race against Google; it's better to make sure your site is easily navigable by any crawlers. Good accessibility and using semantic HTML goes a long way towards that goal.

• Bate martins commented 2020-04-14T15:08:31.411-0400

  Thanks Gregor for pointing it out.Added to your statement, from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-john-mueller-says-parameters-urls-not-matter/246675/ it also says "In fact, removing file extensions from URLs may even harm the site.". Though 90% of web searches happen on Google,does this hold true for other engines like Bing and Yahoo ?.

• Justin Obara commented 2024-07-18T07:44:47.247-0400

  This appears to have been completed. Probably with our move to 11ty.