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using .htm pages

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:55 am
by Chris Hadden
I am considering this software. My current site is ranked well on quite a few .htm pages. These pages must remain with the site or my traffic would disappear. My old site was built with Frontpage and ST***F***T. Can I still use Frontpage? and keep my htm pages?

Re: using .htm pages

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:58 am
by mazhar
You can put those HTML pages along with able pages and link them to AbleCommerce pages for navigation purposes.

Re: using .htm pages

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:59 am
by dappy2
Build your pages into the AbleCommerce software (with .aspx pages) and just do a 301 permanent redirect. Google will keep the pagerank and eventually just replace the .htm pages with .aspx pages. Site visitors will never know the difference.

http://www.highposition.net/301-redirect-tutorial-iis/

Either you or your host should be able to set it up once you go live. It is really really easy.

Re: using .htm pages

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:02 pm
by mazhar
dappy2 wrote:Build your pages into the AbleCommerce software (with .aspx pages) and just do a 301 permanent redirect. Google will keep the pagerank and eventually just replace the .htm pages with .aspx pages. Site visitors will never know the difference.

http://www.highposition.net/301-redirect-tutorial-iis/

Either you or your host should be able to set it up once you go live. It is really really easy.
I second the idea.

Re: using .htm pages

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:46 pm
by kastnerd
mazhar wrote:
dappy2 wrote:Build your pages into the AbleCommerce software (with .aspx pages) and just do a 301 permanent redirect. Google will keep the pagerank and eventually just replace the .htm pages with .aspx pages. Site visitors will never know the difference.

http://www.highposition.net/301-redirect-tutorial-iis/

Either you or your host should be able to set it up once you go live. It is really really easy.
I second the idea.
I also vote for 301 redirect. This way if search engines or users try and use the old url they get sent to the new url. The search engines will quickly use the new url. But other sites links may never update so you would want to keep the 301 alive.