Posted by Rik on 01/03/07 04:04

David wrote:
> Does anyone know if all pages in a fairly established site are
> changed from .htm to .shtml or .php all of the search engine indexing
> will be lost? Other than the file type change everything else remains
> the same including file structure, linking etc..

Arrange a 301 redirect, and google understands, and the users that have
bookmarked parts of your site will thank you for not breaking their links.

If on apache, and mod_rewrite is possible for instance:

RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.shtml [L,R=301]
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Rik Wasmus

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