Allowed index endings and flash banners
 

two quick questions

I submit to 24 ll's and currently use index.htm \ .html for that...but I want to increase the number of sites I submit to so I was wondering which other index.* endings are allowed \ accepted?

And my other question

Are well designed flash \ animated banners (not the large loud screaming type) allowed for advertising your sponsor on your freesites?


thanks in advance
puffz

You don't need to find new extensions for your index files, you can use just index.html but place it in different directories, something like: http://www.yourdomains.com/free-site...sex-free-site/, http://www.yourdomains.com/free-site...sex-free-site/, http://www.yourdomains.com/free-site...sex-free-site/ and so on.

Answer to your other question: yes.

Using extensions other than htm & html will automatically put you on watch list - its not commonn and not welcome I belive.

I also higly recomend NOT using flash banners - most likely you will get rejected everywhere. Animated banners (gif) are fine

I'm not that concerned with either issue. If the site looks good, loads fast, has quality content, etc... I'll list it.

You could use .htaccess and mod_ReWrite to 'simulate' the use of .htm/.html files.

To use .php extensions as .html put these lines in your root .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^thisfolder/thispage.html$ /thisfolder/thispage.php

That way your thispage.php can have php script running, but be named as thispage.html without impacting the server performance with other .html extensions

I'm not recommending it as a way of avoiding being blacklisted for using scripts, but as a way of being consistent with your page extensions.

Question 2:
As long as the flash banner doesn't take an age loading (most are smaller than animated gifs anyway) and it doesn't distract from the content on the page, then there would be no problem with me. Bear in mind there are a few users that cannot see flash animations, whereas 100% of people (with images enabled) will see the .gif files