Move to php: Naming files, search engines, and indexing
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:33 am
I'm updating my online store with some php.
Since php is so prevalent now.. why not give all html pages ".php" extensions (even if they don't contain php) so that when they are indexed by robots you won't have a problem renaming files and ruining "index paths".
The problem I have now is, all my pages are indexed by google as ".html" and they will soon all be ".php". I can do a re-direct to the new .php pages, but again, why not just name them php to begin with? Even non-php html files.
Just wondering....
Since php is so prevalent now.. why not give all html pages ".php" extensions (even if they don't contain php) so that when they are indexed by robots you won't have a problem renaming files and ruining "index paths".
The problem I have now is, all my pages are indexed by google as ".html" and they will soon all be ".php". I can do a re-direct to the new .php pages, but again, why not just name them php to begin with? Even non-php html files.
Just wondering....