SE and .html Question

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by lappanion, Mar 8, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi there,
    I had some work for a client done redesigning of his entire website around 30 pages,

    and the site was a CMS before with URL's like this: domain.com/somestuff/andandand (with no .html or .htm , they had some script running or used htaccess, not sure)
    but now I remade the whole site in plain HTML/CSS and of course I have URL's like this domain.com/somestuff/andandand.html (with the .html)

    Now I am scared to loose the SE rankings that site has archieved (its ranking well), I have kept all the urls intakt but the small difference is the .html ending...

    There is one solution to this problem, I could just make a folder for every site and create a index.html in it but I would have to update a bunch of links and its kind of messy in itself...

    Can I leave it as is and will Google consider .html and no .html the same and keep the sites ranked or do I need do something about it?

    I don't want to use redirect too...

    Thanks in advance
    Toni
     
    lappanion, Mar 8, 2010 IP
  2. lappanion

    lappanion Well-Known Member

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    #2
    does anyone know??
     
    lappanion, Mar 9, 2010 IP
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    pipes Prominent Member

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    I would do nothing and leave it as it is.
     
    pipes, Mar 9, 2010 IP
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    youssefedwardsaber Active Member

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    i think you want to use a file extension to be executed as another extension. for example .html may be executed as .php. this can be achieved fro the htaccess file using the addtype or addhandler command. check your documentation for your server.
     
    youssefedwardsaber, Mar 10, 2010 IP
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    lappanion Well-Known Member

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    would it really be that bad to just not change it?

    what would you do?
     
    lappanion, Mar 11, 2010 IP
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    I would honestly just leave it I think google will still recognize it.
     
    pjamesmg, Mar 12, 2010 IP