Strange listings after going from php to asp

Trying to get my pages listed, odd things

[vanillaice]

I have a strange thing happening to me. I have two domains that i've watched for SE traffic, and i've also undergone a complete redo of both sites. Neither had much SE traffic to begin with, so it wasn't a huge risk to do, and I was forced to do it anyway since I went to an IIS box and most of my old pages were .php

Anyway...

Domain 1 - Index + roughly 8-10 pages listed. Every page listed was for example
www.domain.com/
www.domain.com/category1.php
www.domain.com/category2.php
www.domain.com/category3.php

then I switched over to .asp, so in the process, I also wanted to clean up my site a little bit, so I added...

www.domain.com/
www.domain.com/category1/
www.domain.com/category1/subcatpage1.asp
www.domain.com/category1/subcatpage2.asp
www.domain.com/category2/
www.domain.com/category2/subcatpage1.asp
www.domain.com/category2/subcatpage2.asp

After a few times of googlebot running through my site, they completely removed every single page except for my root domain. I have a sitemap running on it, I see no errors, i've done test crawls from sites, and it sees every page, but for some reason google refuses to see them.

Now, I thought that was strange, but then it got a bit weirder with domain2.

Domain2 had roughly the same amount of pages listed, but i've greatly expanded that site over the past few weeks with the help of .asp and controls.

So, when I was re-doing this site, I started to remain in the root directory. It made my site look strange, but I did it anyway, so then you'd see

www.domain2.com
www.domain2.com/category1.php
www.domain2.com/category2.php
www.domain2.com/category3.php
www.domain2.com/category4.asp

yea, the 4th was an .asp page.

With controls, I managed to create a template of sorts, but tossing in a ton of variables to each page, making them look pretty different except for the actual layout. I also changed the category4.asp to index.asp and threw it in it's /category4/ folder...

so now I see a real wide variety of links listed...

www.domain2.com
www.domain2.com/category1.php
www.domain2.com/category2.php
www.domain2.com/category5/
www.domain2.com/links.asp

So this time they kept the .php files up, which they didn't do for my first domain. They added one of the new categories, removed the .asp category (category4) even though /category4/ works fine, and added the links page which is in .asp. I am so confused.

Domain2 currently has about 200 pages in sitemaps, however I will say a good 75% of them are a result of variables (ie www.domain2.com/category5/page.asp?sample=1), and I know google has trouble listing variabled pages, i'm fine with that.

What I don't understand is why some other pages are listed, some aren't, some are php, some are .asp, some are folders, but when you visit my site, everything is just in folders. Even the sitemap contains no .php files any longer.

Could it possibly be because my site changed into more of a template, even though each page is almost entirely different except the actual layout? Or should I just give the whole process more time to build up pagerank and get listed. Keep in mind, every new page I want to get listed is <3 weeks old, and none have PR. Every one of the .php pages still listed have a 2 PR.

Sorry for the long post, any helps / tips will be greatly appreciated.

[g1smd]

Just because you change the technology used to generate your pages of HTML code and your content, there is no need to change the extensions for the filenames for those pages.

That is a common error.

[vanillaice]

So I could have .asp scripts running on .php pages? Ughh I wish I knew that before

[g1smd]

Yep. The name of the file really does not matter, just as long as the server software knows how to process those various files.

I just changed a site from HTML to PHP but all the filenames still end in .html and have the exact same filenames as before.