Quick URL Structure question

[md_doc]

hello I'm developing a site and was wondering what is the best way to structure my URL?

say www.xyz.com is the website im developing and I want to point it to a certain car

http://www.xyz.com/dodge/grand-carav...d-caravan.html

or

www.xyz.com/dodge/grand-caravan/

or is there a better way I'm not thinking of?

I don't even know if this matters, but can some1 answer? also any other kinda basic quick tips you can give if possible..
thanks

[BigAlReturns]

The second way is definitely best. There's no advantage to repeating keywords within an URL, and your first way would smack to me of a webmaster trying to manipulate search engines - not good!
As a general rule when writing URLs, what's best for the user is best for SEO. If I was a user of xyz.com, looked at an URL like xyz.com/dodge/grand-caravan, I'd immediately know what to type in to get to say, a Pontiac Firebird. Repeating things that don't need to be repeated confuses things for your users, and they're ultimately what matter most.

[ryanhellyer]

There is also no point in using .html in your URL's. That is just a file extension used by operating systems to determine what type of file you are using. Web browsers don't care about the file extension and neither do search engines.

[BigAlReturns]

Originally Posted by ryanhellyer

There is also no point in using .html in your URL's. That is just a file extension used by operating systems to determine what type of file you are using. Web browsers don't care about the file extension and neither do search engines.

Good point - for a discussion of how to change the URLs you're using see this post.