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| Re: Advice please htm or html file names Hi Roy Please forgive me for the bad explaination I am new at this, I ahve taken you advice and put all the file names back to .htm so that when they click on a page found by the search engine,they go to the page and not to a 404 error because I changed the file extension to html. Many thanks Ian "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message news:d4vfjq$1o36$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk... > Ian Harris wrote: > >> Hi >> I have updated a site that is already listed in the search engines . >> and gets high ranking but this is based on .htm pages >> The problem is the prevoius site, had page file names like this index.htm >> and >> products.htm >> The new site has page file names like this index.html and products.html . >> do I need to change the html back to htm page file >> names >> >> Regards >> Ian > > I suspect that you are being a paranoid here. Search engines couldn't care > less about the /extension/ as long as the file complies with the proper > /format/. > > Your explanation was not clear to me. I don't understand what you mean by > "update" and "previous site", which imply different things. If you change > the extension of an existing file in an existing (static) domain, then you > can lead visitors to 404 error pages. If you have migrated your site to a > new domain, however, there should be no problem. > > Roy > > -- > Roy S. Schestowitz > http://Schestowitz.com |