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ARQseo
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2004-Apr-21 16:35
Hi everybody
I just change the extensions of most of my website pages including the index. They used to be .asp and now they are .html, I also remove some pages that don’t work any more so on my server if some one try to go there will be redirect to the index. Some of those are ranking well but I really want to now if that will be a problem with the SE.
Thanks
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Superchaos
Joined: Jun 04, 2002
# Posts: 9
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Posted: 2004-Apr-21 23:13
The SE may find a 404 error on this type of change. I would suggest updating the links on the asp pages to include the new links of the html pages and a meta tag of
META name="robots" content="noindex, follow"
so at least the SE will update their links without showing duplicate content and you losing customers or placement.
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
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Posted: 2004-Apr-21 23:16
If you are changing the file extensions, the only way is to have them return a 301 permanent redirect. When they request an html page it should return a 301 permanent redirect to the new .asp page.
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spiderbiologist
Joined: Nov 13, 2001
# Posts: 87
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Posted: 2004-Apr-21 23:25
What's up ARQseo?
I agree with bhartzer, that would be the most appropriate and honest way of handling the migration of your pages. You're telling the search engines that you made a change and that they will find the new pages in the new direction.
As for the pages you deleted, make sure you delete all links to those pages from your site (so they don't show up as broken links).
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ARQseo
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2004-Apr-22 00:32
Ok
My understanding (from IT Department)is that 301 only works for a domain as a whole not for internal or unique pages within the site.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Apr-23 00:21
Incorrect, I believe.
You can use it to redirect anything to something else.
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josh_1
Joined: Apr 06, 2004
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Posted: 2004-May-05 23:30
What about backlinks? I'm having the same problem, and I just left both file structures active, so that any links to the old dynamic structure wouldn't be broken if we shut it down -- so the html pages are up, but so are the old jsp pages.
Since doing this, google has indexed a lot of the html pages, but in a lot of cases continues to prefer to index the jsp page instead, even though the html pages mostly have a better page rank...
-- if I do a 301 redirect instead of keeping the jsp active, will it kill the value of any links to the old jsp page?
-- do you think google will at some point decide to prefer my PR5 html page over the identical page with jsp extension and a PR of 3?
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