Changing the HTML Suffix on your URLs

Your store can be configured to either include or exclude the .html suffix as part of category and product URLs. There are various reasons why people may choose to either use or omit the URL suffix. Some people believe that the suffix no longer serves any useful purpose, and that pages without a suffix are indexed more effectively by search engines. If your company has established a standardized format for URLs, you might be required to keep within its guidelines.

The most important thing to understand is that the use of the suffix is controlled by settings in your system configuration. The suffix should never be typed directly into the URL key of a category or product. Doing so will result in a double suffix at the end of the URL when the suffix is enabled.

Whether you decide to use the suffix or not, be consistent and use the same setting for all your product and category pages. Here are examples of a category URL with, and without, the suffix:

With: http://yourstore.zoeysite.com/furniture/living-room/couch.html
Without: http://yourstore.zoeysite.com/furniture/living-room/couch

You can change this in your Control Panel under Products > Settings > Search Engine Optimizations