Hi,

I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
advice?

Thanks,

Jez.

On 2007-10-27, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
> Obviously the URL's are going to be different.

Why "obviously"?


> What would the advice be
> on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
> 1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
> its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
> content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
> advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jez.

Ignoramus2057 wrote:
> On 2007-10-27, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>> Obviously the URL's are going to be different.
>
> Why "obviously"?
>

Why isn't it obvious to you?

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:19:28 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
>on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
>1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
>its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
>content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
>advice?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jez.

Hi Jez,
Would mod_rewrite work for you ?
It's not my field, but think it would be better than 301 every page.

Why the change anyway ?

plh
Paul

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The Gobbling Goblin wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:19:28 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>> Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
>> on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
>> 1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
>> its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
>> content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
>> advice?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jez.
>
> Hi Jez,
> Would mod_rewrite work for you ?
> It's not my field, but think it would be better than 301 every page.
>
> Why the change anyway ?
>
> plh
> Paul
>

It's a site that was running on a really basic script and the only way
to move forward with it was to have a total change of script.

I think I might have a workable solution now anyway.

Thanks Paul,

Jez



Jez

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:19:28 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
>on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
>1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
>its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
>content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
>advice?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jez.

Isn't there some magic by which php files can be configured to appear
as .htm files?
Other than that, my advice is, don't do it.

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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:47:59 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:

>The Gobbling Goblin wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:19:28 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>>> Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
>>> on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
>>> 1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
>>> its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
>>> content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
>>> advice?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jez.
>>
>> Hi Jez,
>> Would mod_rewrite work for you ?
>> It's not my field, but think it would be better than 301 every page.
>>
>> Why the change anyway ?
>>
>> plh
>> Paul
>>
>
>It's a site that was running on a really basic script and the only way
>to move forward with it was to have a total change of script.

ah, I see.

I am re-writing one of my sites. Still got over 4000 pages to do :/

>I think I might have a workable solution now anyway.

Phew!
I just need more hands myself <G>

>Thanks Paul,

nps

plh
paul

>Jez
>
>
>
>Jez


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____/ Jez on Saturday 27 October 2007 10:19 : \____

> Hi,
>
> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
> Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
> on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
> 1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
> its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
> content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
> advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jez.

If you're good at coding or the CMS (I assume you will use one?) permit this,
it's worth writing some rules. Incoming links may otherwise be lost (never
mind Google's crawling). You can hire someone like John Bokma if you don't
know how to do this yourself. It can be just a single line to shove
into .htaccess.

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Jez wrote:
> Ignoramus2057 wrote:
>> On 2007-10-27, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>>> Obviously the URL's are going to be different.
>>
>> Why "obviously"?
>>
>
> Why isn't it obvious to you?

It should be pretty simple to put the php code in the existing URL and
instruct your web server to run those pages through the PHP interpreter.
(it's usually based on file extensions).

On Oct 27, 10:19 am, Jez <j...@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
> Obviously the URL's are going to be different. What would the advice be
> on the old pages regarding google? There are too many to 301 (over
> 1,000). Should I just do nothing and let google drop the old pages in
> its own good time? I suppose there is the possibility of a duplicate
> content issue in this period but I don't see a good way around this. Any
> advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jez.

Hi Jez, I don't know if you are "google autority" in any keyword. But
if you are, use the 301 for these pages. Otherwise you could loose
your status. And as it was writte befor: try to use mod_rewrite (on
PHP) or ISAPI_Rewrite (on ASP or ASP.NET). It works perfectly, and if
you once are used on it, its a quick an mighty tool. You can hide any
database and any extension by this.

Greetings,
Ben.

On 2007-10-27, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
> Ignoramus2057 wrote:
>> On 2007-10-27, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a site that I am switching from static html pages to PHP.
>>> Obviously the URL's are going to be different.
>>
>> Why "obviously"?
>>
>
> Why isn't it obvious to you?

Because I have done it, converted a lot of pages from static HTML, or
embedded perl, to mod_perl, but kept the URLs.

What you do is use mod_rewrite, to say that, if, say, a page
http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html is requested, your server should
return http://yoursite.com/yourpage.php instead.

A lot of people do it and it is no problem.

i