Help: Google forgot ".htlml" in my site? or is it me?

The easiest solution is to do a 301 redirect from bad to good.

Problem solved. But only for that one page.

Then you can do a little deeper digging.

Are you using wordpress? You may have some settings that
are leaving the extension off. You need to change the
permalink structure to add the .html.

Google will most likely index whatever wordpress does,
whether or not the real page has the .html or not.

If you recently fiddled with them, and have them right, the
problem may go away.

Paul

".htlml" NICE!

Fix your 404 to send them somewhere.

Your problem appears to be that Google is indexing multiple URL's to specific pages.

Canonicalization.

This is now an old article: SEO advice: url canonicalization

But worth reading. If your page is appearing with multiple URL's you need to figure out where the problem is and fix it. You can also "suggest" to Google which page is correct in a couple of different ways including Tags in your Header and Google Webmaster. Best way is to fix in your Software and be consistent.

Would be easier to give you an answer if you posted your real URL.

You probably have done some SEO work w/ the mistyped URL.

The 301 redirect is the easiest fix.

Then, continue to build backlinks to the correct URL and google will update it accordingly.

I think paulgl has hit the head of the nail. But you should also check google webmaster tools and see if you have any crawl errors. Then investigate further.

Guys,

Thanks a lot for the input. Checked the permalink its
/%postname%.html/

So its correct right?

The SEO is correct and I'm sure of that. Because I put all the links I used in 1 folder "Day 1 - site etc etc" to keep me organized and I need this so I can index 95% of the links. So I have my own record of my backlinks as in All of them and none has the has the problem with the html.

I also tried a 301 redirect via hostgator and the site doesn't load at all. Can you help me with this Paul?

I investigated further. And got into webmaster tools.. The keyword have 3500 impressions and when I click on it It has the same problem. .html missing. I have not uploaded any sitemaps here cause I'm using a All in one Sitemap on Wordpress.

Anything yuou can suggest to me after all these facts?

Thanks a lot for everyone who replied! Thanks a lot!

"It's not google indexing multiple urls.
That's no problem anyway."

Clearly this advice is BAD... BAD... BAD

This is straight from the mouth of Google. Google can and does index multiple URL's leading to the same page. Thus the Term Canonical URL. But if you want to spew bad advice go for it. That's what is found in most reply's in Forums.

Q: What is a canonical url? Do you have to use such a weird word, anyway?
A: Sorry that it’s a strange word; that’s what we call it around Google. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:

* IANA — Example domains
* example.com/
* IANA — Example domains
* example.com/home.asp

But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, we try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set.

The most common occurrence is the choice between www. or not.

And speaking of BAD ADVICE

"IMO get rid of the .html (you don't need it)."

While you may not NEED it, it's advisable because not everyone uses CMS'. You have to think about how the average person would create an unsolicited link back to your site. Many people would link using the .html extension because it's a common practice. There is no penalty for including it. Back links that are consistent matter.

This is my preferred custom permalink structure. And it works, and my sites rank. But you can choose to believe what you want. Most of these people do not understand beyond a superficial level what they are doing, and even less understand why they are doing it.


/%postname%.html