URL SEO Structure

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Amateur

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Currently I am optimizing the URL's on my site for SEO and wondering what is the "best" way to structure an optimized URL. I have seen several different ways such as below and I am curious which is the way search engines like the most.

http://www.website.com/category/name-of-page/
http://www.website.com/category/name_of_page/
http://www.website.com/category/name-of-page.aspx
http://www.website.com/category/name-of-page/23/default.aspx
http://www.website.com/category/name-of-page/23/
http://www.website.com/name-of-page
http://www.website.com/name-of-page.aspx

Any ideas/views?
 
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glengara

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Ending filenames with a / allows for future changes from say .html to .php without G treating them as new pages.......
 
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Tom

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Just wondering, whats the reasoning for having no .aspx or .html ?
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As Glengara says it's great if you want to change file types in the future and it also makes it shorter and simpler so it's easier to read and say over the phone or put the link into an email etc. The simpler and shorter the url the better, not just for seo but for visitors to your site too.
 
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Lads,

Apologies to re hash this topic but I have moved on to a new project and have a couple questions.

I am creating a dynamic site for an auctioneering firm and have 3 classes of pages handled via a CMS. I have bolded and ranked what I believe is both the best and technical possible for me in each category and wondered if everyone agrees with me.

A normal page handled via a CMS (id of 3):
http://www.url.com/page-name/
http://www.url.com/page-name/3/
http://www.url.com/page-name.html
http://www.url.com/page-name-3.html
http://www.url.com/page-name.3.html

A property category page handled via a CMS (id of 3):
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale/
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale/10/
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale.html
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale-10.html
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale.10.html

A property details page handled via a CMS (id of 20):
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale/2-shamrock-road-birr-co-offaly/20/
http://www.url.com/property-for-sale/2-shamrock-road-birr-co-offaly/10/
http://www.url.com/2-shamrock-road-birr-co-offaly.html
http://www.url.com/2-shamrock-road-birr-co-offaly-20.html
http://www.url.com/2-shamrock-road-birr-co-offaly.20.html

I know I am probably re asking the same question, but I appreciate yer opinion.
 
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