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

Never use a link to index.htm(l), use / instead. (or constructions like ./
.../, etc).

If you changed the extension, and backlinks point to the old extension, use
mod_rewrite to 301 redirect to the new extension. You can check your
error_log if this happens a lot (e.g. 404's for the old extension).

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