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willem01
Joined: Mar 27, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Mar-27 17:07
hey guys, I've recently redone my parents site which had been online for about 5-6 years. I'm having a problem with google bringing up the old website which was hosted as .htm Even if I put in quotes that only my website has, I get the old website which does not exist when I try to access it through google's link.
Is this something that will correct itself or should I put those pages back online and have them point to the new site?
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Quadrille
Joined: Nov 15, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Mar-27 18:10
It will take a while for the new pages to get into the index - and renamed pages are treated as new pages.
It's usually best NOT to rename pages without very good reason.
But if you feel it's vital, then 301 the old URLs to the new.
If renaming and fairly minor changes is all you've done, it may settle down in time.
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willem01
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Posted: 2008-Mar-27 18:15
Well the url's are essentially the same with the exception of the file extenstions, that's where I'm having the problem. they went from htm to html. The text on the pages are the same but the site is completely redesigned. Do you think I should put them back to .htm?
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Mar-27 18:21
To Google, it's a new file in place of an old one; as would be changing one character but NOT changing the extension!
If you did it very recently, I'd go back to htm - there's really no advantage (or disadvantage) in one compared to t'other.
But as well as confusing Google, you will probably lose a few links to the old pages.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Mar-28 02:06
Change back to .htm immediately, and set up a 301 redirect from .html to .htm to avoid confusing Google.
Use a HTTP header checker to confirm that it really is a 301 redirect, as a 302 redirect would be a complete and total disaster.
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