From index.htm to index.php?

I just changed my site from index.htm to index.php.

Some search engines still se my index.htm, I made a 404.shtml file, yet I wonder if there is a way to put a .htm file and have it redirect to the php, but as SEO friendly as possible. Or just tell the seach engine to forget about the .htm and only see the .php?

 

Make a 301 redirect:
in .htaccess
redirect 301 index.htm http://www.website.com/index.php

 

Do you mean something like

DirectoryIndex   index.php
RedirectPermanent /index.htm http://www.site.com/index.php

Code (markup):

 

thats correct aswell.

 

Lol who change to php?? html is better as more search engine will go to html

 

It makes no difference as any crawler and search engine can read .php extensions and .html extentions. Please learn more on the subject before "Lol"ing in threads.

 

Crawlers can view php just as well as html

 

You can use modrewrite so that your urls are still indexed by engines as htm.

 

How can I do that?

 

More to the point, WHY would you want to do that?

 

If he has preexisting pages that are ranked and indexed, modrewrite is a good way to switch to php without any downtime in serps.

Here's a DP thread on modrewrite.

 

I didn't see that posted...

 

It was my impression he had preexisting pages since he stated "I just changed my site from index.htm to index.php."


Btw, are ya hanging out here to jab at me, or did you actually want to share some ideas???

 

Not at all. I meant what I said. I really missed it. Got the 'flu so head is fuzzy.

No "jab" or other sort of offense intended.

 

Ahhh...okay. I thought you still hadn't seen it (or had gotten a different impression from his post).


Sorry you're fuzzy! Fuzzy heads are no fun. :-(

 

Have a look on this

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

 

this is what I would do..I think it would work best for you and the spiders!

 

That's exactly what I did on one of my sites as well.

 

You should use your HTML file and then send your visitors to PHP. Even their is no diffrence while you talk about search engines in php and html. But you shouldn't delete your old page.
You can make your html a welcome page with very less content and enter your site on php