View Full Version : Changing site over to ASP - what effects will I notice?
jewboy
06-13-2005, 03:12 PM
My client's website is in the process of changing over from HTML to ASP.
All of the file name extensions will be changed from .htm to .asp. I've never encountered a situation like this, and was wondering how it will effect my site's position on the SERPs (if at all). Furthermore, will all my pages lose their pagerank value due to their new names?
Thanks! :)
In simple terms you will lose all rankings, at least for the short term. I find it difficult to manage a mass switch of filenames and I find the results to be a little unpredictable. Of course you don't have to change the filenames at all, that would be my prefered option.
jewboy
06-13-2005, 03:19 PM
Thanks for the prompt reply!
The design firm insists that the file names must be changed due to the structure of the site. Is there a way to keep the existing file names, while migrating over to ASP?
>Is there a way to keep the existing file names, while migrating over to ASP?
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Yes, you can process any extension through the asp engine, just a setting to do takes seconds. If its a shared server there maybe some objections but a site on its own box there can be none.
seomike
06-13-2005, 07:32 PM
Get a rewrite module for your windows server
Then you can use mod rewrite to keep the same urls with a simple rule.
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm $1.asp [L]
Windows mods are a dime a dozen but a few lines will allow you to keep your .htm extensions and let you run them as asp on the back end. ;)