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Does Google Penalize for .html

by Wealthyclark
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I have a blog that started with my post url being something like this
www.mysite.com/dog

I changed all post to an html extension so now that url is
www.mysite.com/dog.html

I changed it because I needed to verify my site for Google webmaster tools and couldn't figure out how to do it any other way. I know I'm not very technical at all.

Ever since I changed over to .html my new post haven't been getting indexed. Before I switched over, my new post urls would get indexed the same day after being bookmarked and getting a few back links.

I build back links everyday from different places and my home page which does not have the .html extension moves up the rank everyday as my sub-pages also did before but now the sub-pages stay put or sometimes even move back when linked to.

My home page has a couple of first page spots for a few of it's main keywords.

My question is, does anyone think it is possible that Google may be showing me less love do to my sub-pages using the .html extension and if so or not so, does anyone have any advice or thoughts on this.

Thanks to everyone in advance for their help!
#google #html #penalize
  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    Maybe put a .htaccess 301 redirect to your new page 301 .htaccess Redirect Trick
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  • Profile picture of the author Amy Bass
    They wont penalize .html I think the problem was that you were indexed one way, had backlinks, etc... then suddenly changed the permalinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Amy's` right, you essentially changed the entire construction of your site so now you have to start over with the SE's and they will have to re-index your site.

      Though I don't understand why you would need to do something like this to get verified ... What was your site B4 - .PHP?
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      • Profile picture of the author Wealthyclark
        Originally Posted by Eric Lorence View Post

        Amy's` right, you essentially changed the entire construction of your site so now you have to start over with the SE's and they will have to re-index your site.

        Though I don't understand why you would need to do something like this to get verified ... What was your site B4 - .PHP?

        I don't know what I was using, like I said I'm not very technical at all. I use word press to build my sites. Google webmaster tools gives you two ways to verify you site, I could not make the seemingly easier option of putting the code in the head and this is what I could figure out that worked.
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        • Profile picture of the author A Bary
          The Best way to verify a blog for Webmasters tools is doing the following steps:

          1-Open the "edit" panel of the theme (under themes=== editor).
          2-Open the header.php file
          3-Copy the meta tag from your webmasters tools account and paste it inside the file, you'll find a couple of meta tags, paste it just after them.
          4-update file
          5-Click verify in your account

          That's it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Taylor
    If you are using Google Analytics, it should be placed before the </body> tag at the end of your HTML code, not in the header.php file. On all the Wordpress templates I've used, this tag is near the bottom of the footer.php template.

    This is from Google Analytics' help file on where to place the tracking code:

    Add the tracking code to your pages
    The code contained in the text box on the Tracking Status page must be copied and pasted into all of the web pages you will be tracking. It should be added immediately before the </body> tag, and can be added by hand or through the use of templates or includes, if available.

    How do I track a new website? - Analytics Help
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    • Profile picture of the author A Bary
      Originally Posted by Michael Taylor View Post

      If you are using Google Analytics, it should be placed before the </body> tag at the end of your HTML code, not in the header.php file. On all the Wordpress templates I've used, this tag is near the bottom of the footer.php template.

      This is from Google Analytics' help file on where to place the tracking code:
      He is asking about Google webmaster's tools, not Google analytic,
      Plz don't confuse others by misreading
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  • Profile picture of the author DKS404
    like others have mentioned - adding a 301 redirect from your old pages to your new pages should help your pages return to the search engines. Make sure its a 301 and not a 302, a 302 redirect will not help you in this case.
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    • Profile picture of the author WareTime
      Google penalizes for poor quality content and poor quality back links.

      What technology you build your site in and what he file extension is or isn't mean absolutely nothing. All that matter is that they can crawl your content. The the quality of the code of the pages means crap too. Again, as long as the bot can crawl the page.
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