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With ver. BV5 is it possible to change the extension to Html instead of aspx?
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This has more to do with your server setup than the software. If you configure IIS to map .html extensions to the ASP.NET process you can rename the files.
My question is why do you want to change the extensions. Matt Cutts from Google and Microsoft's Search team have both stated that file extensions make no difference at all to search engines.
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All of my pages have Html extensions, if I were to change the extensions to aspx I would loose their positions.
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Hi Marcus,
I have Al's smart URL currently, would it work with ver. Bv5?
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Hi Marcus,
I've loaded BVC5 on my HD still have a question regarding renaming the "aspx pages to Html" can you define the method. Also, when I purchase this ver. do I get to choose a template from your selection of 20?
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John,
There are 4 themes that ship with the software plus the Sports Theme and Tech Blue theme available for free download.
To map .html to .aspx pages you should investigate using 301 redirects with a package like ISAPI rewrite.
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Marcus,
I'm unable to find the templates you mentioned, can you give me a link to them. Regarding the ISAPI rewrite, this might pose a problem with the search engines. You have within your BVC5 "Rewrite Url To:" is this the same as ISAPI? Couldn't I find and replace in the DB all of the files I would like to retain with .html extentions?
John
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John,
As you probably know, webservers run many different kinds of applications: ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, etc. For efficiency, the webserver maps certain extensions to each type of application. For example URL's with the .aspx file extensions are sent to ASP.NET for processing and requests to .php are sent to PHP for processing.
BVC5 runs within the ASP.NET space. Normally your webserver will not send URL's with the .html extension to ASP.NET. That means BVC5 will not even "see" those requests. So you cannot use BVC5's built-in rewrite feature.
You do have a couple of options...
You may be able to reconfigure the webserver to send .html requests ASP.NET. Your host may not allow it, but if they do, then BVC5 will "see" those requests and you could probably use the rewrite feature.
Or you could use ISAPI Rewrite (or similar). Why do you think it would pose a problem for search engines? |
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Hey John, if you have ISAPI installed. Toss this into the .ini file
RewriteRule (.*)\.html $1.aspx
If you keep the exact same URL names between both stores, that will fire out the .html page as a .aspx page while preserving the .html extension.
It works if you have on original Store 1: a-rewritten-url-name.html
on new Store 2: a-rewritten-url-name.aspx
A Caution Though - This will not rewrite the internal links that are programatically rendered in the HTML of the store. So you will still have products rewritten within the page as .aspx
Honestly, for the sake of continuity I suggest redirecting everything to .aspx. Done on it several site moves and in many cases has resulted in improved listings which I can only make an opinion based statement that the engines are saying "hey, this is fresh new content, we like fresh content..." :) |
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Hi Andy/Matt, I've used ISAP rewrite before when I moved from SF to BV4 and lost my positioning with Google, it took a few months before I retained positioning again. I now have 624 pages/products, business in marine sales is dead, the last thing I need is to loose what positioning that I have. I'm walking a tight rope. http://www.cyber-bridge-marine.comIs there a way so my Html pages still resolve to the Html yet have the SE's index the new aspx. pages? What do you recommend as the best course of action? John
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www.resposio.com is used to doing this all the time. Drop them a note. |
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+1 for Resposio. They are *the* experts at what you are asking. |
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