Question regarding indexing - changing from .php to .html

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We have a site built quite some time ago using PPCRiches. It created a silo site, and all the pages are .php (the app uses embedded scripts).

The site was essentially "forgotten about" until just now. Surprisingly, it had about 70 pages indexed and ranking very well for some very competitive keywords.

Now we want to "resuscitate" the site and take advantage of it via Adsense.

The plan was to re-create it with Xsitepro and build it out further. We would copy the content and title tags of the original pages.

Here's my question. The pages that are indexed are all .php - if we change them to .html, will they "lose" their indexing and ranking, meaning would they then be seen as "different" pages?

Thanks,

Mark
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  • Hi internetmarketer99,

    You can certainly change them and not lose your listing in the index as long as you do a proper "301 Moved Permanently" redirect.

    You might also want to consider using canonical URLs that hide the technology by leaving off the extention.

    hxxp://www.sample.com/contact/

    Instead of

    hxxp://www.sample.com/contact.html
    hxxp://www.sample.com/contact.php
    hxxp://www.sample.com/contact.aspx

    This will future-proof the url so that if you change technolgy in the future your urls will be fine.
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