Is changing all my pages from .php to .html a good idea?

Is changing all my pages from .php to .html a good idea?

 

Yes, but neither of those "Yes" options are correct. .html extension is preferred for SEO, it has nothing to do with hacking or looking professional.

 

i dont think it matters a much at the end of the day .html is mainly for static sites and now people are slowly moving away from it unless u mean to do this via mod rewrite

 

No. Any extension is preferred for SEO, there is no difference at all;.

 

Okay, but I read in a .php security page that changing the pages from .php to .html could deter 1% of hackers (every little bit helps ) or at least make it harder for them to hack the page because they don't know which coding language to start with.

 

I really doubt that it would be any deterrent at all

 

i prefer using ht,l than using php..it's more familiar for me

 

i prefer delete .php only
without adding .html

 

Belive me, there are ABSOLUTLY NO DIFFERENCE on doing it. Oh.. yes... maybe you will have to wait 6 month to get google to re-index your whole site.

 

I can't see any benefit at all of doing this.

php is much better as you can do much more with it. I have hundreds of .html pages on my site and I wish that they were php pages now as it is much more flxible!

 

No. index.php?category=Testing&page=2 is not preferred over /testing/page2.html


OP. if you mean you have page1.php, page2.php, page3.php, etc... without passing any parameters in the url, then there is no point in moving to html. I was assuming you meant mod rewrite to change the .php extension to .html.

 

Depends on your personal opinion, I personally think that a URL like questions.php?answer=123 looks pretty ugly compared to question/answer/123.

 

But if I just change the extension and add a rule in my .htaccess file, it shouldn't affect the way my pages are parsed right?

 

It's hands down a yes, but as mentioned by someone else; those reasons don't really cut it. Mainly this is done for SEO. Search engines love static content (.html). However, if you are a frequent updater, I suggest you *trick* the search engines and use ModRewrite (apache module) in an effective way where every page can have a unique PAGE_NAME.html and grab it's truly dynamic content. However, it appears static which is all that matters!

Regards,
Dennis M.

 

Yes, I agree with Dennis.

 

If I change my pages to .html search engines will still parse the php code in the pages right?

Like:

<?PHP
if($foo == 1)
}
//do this
else
{
//do that
}
?>

Code (markup):

My most of the urls I am planning to change are not like: www.mysite.com/file.php?y=139DAsd9312&va=3019OOP They are just like www.mysite.com/file.php So they are basicly static already with some php code mixed in with the html for querying databases and including file contents.

 

I have said "no", because everything and anything google has ever taught me says that it does not matter, and their algorythms are smart enough to work around it.

If I didn't listen to google, I would have said no.