Overhaul from .HTM to .ASP with Search Engines

Hello All,

This is the first time I have had to deal with redesigning a site that
has been established in the search engines.

The old site had all pages ending in .htm or .html

We have moved to .asp even with static pages.


What are your recommendations to accommdate the change over and avoid
visitors hitting dead links.

For example avoding the

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services


Our thoughts would be to have all the old page names like pageone.htm
, pagetwo.htm etc. with the same information or message stating they
have hit an old page and use the menu to see new site pages.

Is this the best solution?

Should metatags be changes or even included on these redirect type
pages?


All thoughts are welcome.

Thanks.

Previously in alt.www.webmaster, PinkBishop <pinkbishop@hotmail.com>
said:

> The old site had all pages ending in .htm or .html
>
> We have moved to .asp even with static pages.
>
>
> What are your recommendations to accommdate the change over and avoid
> visitors hitting dead links.

Don't change the page names at all. Tell the server to parse .htm and
..html files for ASP.

www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

Failing that, the best way would be to tell the server to send a 301 -
Moved Permanently response header when someone requests the old page.

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

"Mark Parnell" <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote in message
news:1iqm6g9wiysqe$.106vx0mc2of6n$.mark@markparnel l.com.au...
> Previously in alt.www.webmaster, PinkBishop <pinkbishop@hotmail.com>
> said:
> www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
>
> Failing that, the best way would be to tell the server to send a 301 -
> Moved Permanently response header when someone requests the old page.

Yes... the 301 I think is what google reccomends as well ...

also a custom 404 page in case of other issues, one other solution is
leaving all the old pages up and just change all the links on them, but make
sure (possibly a custom style sheet) that they all look different enough for
people not to bookmark them ...

Check your logs in and talk to any refferers you may have about updating
their links (from /index.htm to / )

G

PinkBishop wrote:

> HTTP 404 - File not found
> Internet Information Services

If you were using a *good* server, I'd recommend Googling for mod_rewrite.

But: http://www.isapirewrite.com/

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Toby Inkster wrote:
> PinkBishop wrote:
>
>
>>HTTP 404 - File not found
>>Internet Information Services
>
>
> If you were using a *good* server, I'd recommend Googling for mod_rewrite.
>
> But: http://www.isapirewrite.com/
>

IIS is a good web server.

SpaceGirl wrote:

> IIS is a good web server.

Teehee. You might have been able to fool me like that if I hadn't used it.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Toby Inkster wrote:
> SpaceGirl wrote:
>
>
>>IIS is a good web server.
>
>
> Teehee. You might have been able to fool me like that if I hadn't used it.
>



Well I use IIS6 (Windows 2003) and Tomcat (Linux) & Jbos (Solaris),
depending which projects I'm working on. I find Tomcat too complicated
for its own good, and IIS misses a few things that'd be nice. But
basically there's not much between them when it comes to usable
features. And IIS is one of the fastest servers if you are handling lots
of stuff. Java based web servers have too many layers of "stuff" going on.