Hi All, I am promoting a website in ASP, and I am wondering if what I am doing is right. I want to change my .aspx extension with .html. (means redirect) I have recent pr 4 and most of the inner pages have pr 2. I have 1 back word links.And my website like a yellow pages, all data comes from database through .aspx. Just i want convert my .aspx url in .html Will it help me to get better rank? If i do then it is harmful to my PR or those pages (.aspx) are hits on google remove in google? and what about my traffic. Ofcourse in future i got good hits but I do want to make sure I am doing right thing for my website. If it right then suggest me some tips or if i am doing wrong. then describe me. Please suggest me.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters Who told you this that by changing the extension you will get better rank. Don't live in imagination. Off course it is the matter of smoothness but not of ranking. Yes PHP having a query can be somewhat difficult but it will definitely be index, crawled and ranked wheareas HTML is best because its the easiest code for google to understand and interpret. If you are still firm at your decision then no problem you can redirect you url with new html extension but do it permanent 301 redirect and then it will take some time again get the page rank. Don't be worry because intially your page rank will become zero or gray but after few crawls and page rank updation you be there where you are. Cool Mate and Enjoy your day Dashanan Sharma
If you planned for new website than you should make .html pages, next time take care of it. SE really likes static pages, Well now, you should not change the extension by rewriting url and by doing 301 redirection. There may be one benefit you are seeking, but will badly effect in many ways your website.
Sonal, check to see whether your server allows you to parse .html files as .aspx files (Apache can do it using a module called mod_rewrite, I don't know if IIS has something similar to this). Furthermore, the extension you use for your file names will have absolutely positively zero impact on your rankings, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong and also needs to step away from the computer and really learn their SEO. Once you've done that, then 301 redirect your old URLs to your new ones - you may experience a temporary drop in rankings, but this is normal and to be expected - it's just the search engines "cleaning up" after themselves so to speak.
I've never had any problems with the extensions. Google cannot discriminate your site for being on MS or Linux. So, it is only logical that the extension doesn't matter even a little bit.
It will - instead of losing PR from the old pages, the 301 redirect will transfer it to the new pages for you. If anything, any loss will be temporary at best.
No. As I've said both here and via email, the 301 redirect takes care of all that. It's like sending a forwarding address notice to the post office so your mail gets sent to your new address instead of the old one.
Sonal, Its quite possible that you might lose the PR in change process because everything would look like new to Google but that would be temporary. You will gain the same PR again. About inner pages, yes there is a possibility of losing PR for a longer period if the backlinks or visits are less to those new pages. Now coming to HTML or ASPX, its good to have HTML, so if its a long term plan then please do it now. But if you have a plan of launching a new site after 6-12 months than hold it now and use your ASPX. It doesn't hurt. It can be problematic if you have long query string trailing the URL, so make clean URLS close to the root and you get the same benefit of having html pages. Dan, is it correct?
He's kinda right. The file extension won't matter, and unless you're using cookie or session based IDs you won't have any problems. In other words, you can use PHP, .NET, JSP, ASP, MyDogLarry (ok, I made that last one up), and the search engines won't care because they'll still be reading the HTML that is generated by those languages just as easily if it were straight up HTML in the first place. 100% false. That, on the other hand, is correct.
Hi Dan, Then you mean to say I have to promote my website in .aspx language. The idea about convert my in .html pages, is wastage of time and loosing page rank and traffic. And not to do lots of work. Thank you,
That's not what I said. What I said is that they'll both work equally well. Just to pick one and stick with it.
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