Have I screwed my site up?

 

It’s a bit complicated but in a nutshell, I’ve redesigned my wife’s small business site.

 

Original site pages had HTM extension.

 

New site uploaded with HTML extension and (for stupid and misguided reasons) duplicate HTM pages.

 

Realising the error, I’ve uploaded a 301redirect for htm pages to lead to the html pages.

 

I’ve also made and uploaded a sitemap which shows the latest page extensions (html).

 

At the moment, if you put “dog trainers in cumbria” into Google, my wife’s site (Cumbria Dog Training) is top. Clicking onto it you arrive at the htm homepage but from there on everything else is html.

 

( the homepage becomes html when linked from other pages)

 

Is there anything I can do to sort out this mess or will it be cleared up when Google etc does another crawl.

 

Thanks for any advice.

Paul

Have a look at 301-redirecting the .htm version to the .html version. That way, when a user clicks on the SERP listing, it directs them to the .html version and stops any duplicate content problems (the .htm and .html versions could be a mirror image and thusly look like two pages that are the same)

Have a look at 301-redirecting the .htm version to the .html version. That way, when a user clicks on the SERP listing, it directs them to the .html version and stops any duplicate content problems (the .htm and .html versions could be a mirror image and thusly look like two pages that are the same)

 

Thanks Jason

 

My 301 redirect was uploaded using .htaccess.txt

 

A couple of sample lines are:-

 

redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.cumbria-dog-training.com/index.html
redirect 301 /Training.htm http://www.cumbria-dog-training.com/Training.html

 

Have I got things right doing this ?

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Paul

Edited April 11, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design
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If it redirects your pages, then yup you got it right. There are various different ways of doing it, some are designed to be easy for dynamic changes etc

If it redirects your pages, then yup you got it right. There are various different ways of doing it, some are designed to be easy for dynamic changes etc

Many thanks for your advice Jason, much appreciated.

 

Paul

My 301 redirect was uploaded using .htaccess.txt

When you uploaded this file you did re-name it to .htaccess (removing the .txt part) didn't you?