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Here is a tip from Matt Cutts ( Google Engineer) latest talk. ?Cutts also revealed some important details about the way Google handles various things. For instance, does the file extension in your URL matter? Matt?s answer: no ? unless it is .exe. Otherwise, it will not affect your ranking in the slightest.
How about slashes in your URL? In other words, does it matter how many directories deep your page is? Surprisingly, Matt said no to this as well. So you no longer need to be concerned about this affecting your Google rankings. Matt did hint, however, that this might matter for Yahoo and Microsoft?s Live Search, so proceed with caution here, especially if you?re getting significant traffic from these search engines.?