Thread: Forwarding a webpage

Hi guys, I need some help.

I have just taken over a website from another company so I can maintain the website myself but the thing is I am using websites which end in .php and they used pages ending in .htm because of this when you search certian key words we come up on google but it would say http://www.bigandbold.net/cefa.htm , is there a way that if someone clicks on this it forwards them through to http://www.bigandbold.net/cefa.php ?

Thanks,

Not really.

You can forward the "site" at the Domain level (simply forward the Domain at where it resides to another, completely different Domain) to a replacement "site" that you maintain (in the different page format), but since all SEO values are based upon destination pages, you will lose any acrued values based upon the presence of the previous site altogether.

Some are mistakenly fascinated with 301 re-directs (the alternate manner in which to "forward" an exisitng page to another published page), as they fail to recognize a 301 is intended only as a temporary re-direction, and does not create portable SE valuations site-to-site let alone page-to-page.

Since there is a matter of page content duplication (a .php page mirroring a .htm page previously published/cached/valued), I would simply accept the natural processing and look forward to the anticipated elevation of your "replacement" .php pages.