Will Republishing My Pages as html hurt search engine rankings?

[BCFC]

I have a site that is getting pretty good search rankings for certain words. I want to republish a lot of the pages as html pages. They are currently in php format. If I republish, will it hurt my rankings as the extension will be different, will the search engines read them as completely different pages?..........any thought or advice would be appreciated....thanks

[Karen Mac]

Re: Will Republishing My Pages as html hurt search engine rankings?

YES.. it will hurt.. Id leave them as php... you could REDIRECT THEM but id leave them as php if you can

Karen

[BCFC]

Re: Will Republishing My Pages as html hurt search engine rankings?

thanks karen......i thought as much.....it is just i changed my forms on the pages to autoresponder forms so didn't need them as php anymore..........i have just gone through all my pages changing links and page properties...to html........but didn't publish yet (thank god)......have to go back and chnage them back again now..............what an idiot i am Thanks again.........one more question..if there are no PHP elements on the page though like forms, is it ok to keep them php?

[Karen Mac]

Re: Will Republishing My Pages as html hurt search engine rankings?

Yes.. php is HTML in that its code is embeded into the html. The only difference is the execution of the scripting. So.. it wont make any difference to the html elements whatsoever.


Karen