SEO implications of a site redesign

[Elizabeth25]

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Hi,

Just wondered if anybody could help - I am in the process of redesigning my website and moving from asp to php.

Does anyone have any idea of how I can maintain my current SEO and what I should watch out for when I move over?

Any help would be greatly apperciated

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[Andrew Starr]

I take it your pages are currently .asp and will be changed to .php ?

If you 301 rediect all the old the the new, there may be a short term drop, but over the slightly longer term it shouldn't cause any issues.

of course this depends on what other changes you will be making if any.

also, I suppose you could switch to php but keep your .asp page extensions the same, so there would in effect be no noticable difference

[Elizabeth25]

Thanks for your help.

When you say keep the page extensions the same what do you mean?

Thanks again

[Andrew Starr]

say you have a page like this mydomain .com/some-page.php

instead of saving the page with the .php extension, you could save it with the .asp extension and then create a (or edit your current) .htaccess file with this as the first line

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html .asp

this would allow you to create php pages with the .asp extension (or any other extension that you wish)