Hello every one ,
I had some work for a client done redesigning of his entire website around 30 pages,

and the site was a CMS before with URL's like this: domain.com/somestuff/andandand (with no .html or .htm , they had some script running or used htaccess, not sure)
but now I remade the whole site in plain HTML/CSS and of course I have URL's like this domain.com/somestuff/andandand.html (with the .html)

Now I am scared to loose the SE rankings that site has archieved (its ranking well), I have kept all the urls intakt but the small difference is the .html ending...

There is one solution to this problem, I could just make a folder for every site and create a index.html in it but I would have to update a bunch of links and its kind of messy in itself...

Can I leave it as is and will Google consider .html and no .html the same and keep the sites ranked or do I need do something about it?

I don't want to use redirect too...

Thanks in advance
mohamed elgharib

Can I leave it as is and will Google consider .html and no .html the same and keep the sites ranked or do I need do something about it?

No, No and Yes.

I don't want to use redirect too...

Hard luck then

Google does not consider .html and no .html the same because they are not the same. There is no way you could have left them as they were even though you changed the site to HTML\CSS, without using redirects?

Originally Posted by melovemoney

Google does not consider .html and no .html the same because they are not the same. There is no way you could have left them as they were even though you changed the site to HTML\CSS, without using redirects?

Wrong!


html, htm, php, asp, cfm, pl, aspx, shtml, phtml and no extension at all ARE ALL THE SAME when delivered to the search engines or any other user agent.

Don't give up yet, Mohammed. Why is the site highly ranked? Longevity, great SEO, quality/quantity of backlinks, lack of competition...