.PHP pages and SEO

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by madmn, Apr 19, 2008.

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    I need to have my index page be a PHP extention so I can run most recent blog posts on. Is this going to hurt the overal search engine optimization of the home page?
     
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    No, but if your changing them after web pages have already been indexed you need to do one of two things...

    1. Parse PHP to *.html files (allows you to run php code inside *.html files) by adding the below code into your .htaccess file.

    
RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html
    Code (markup):
    2. 301 redirect old URLs to the new URLs by adding the below code for each URL into your .htaccess file

    
Redirect 301 /oldwebpage.html http://www.newsite.com/newpage.php
    Code (markup):
     
    astup1didiot, Apr 19, 2008 IP