Getting rid of supplemental results

[htdawg]

Hi,

I renamed my web pages from .html to .php on my site and after a while
they became supplemental. I also added a htaccess redirect for all pages from .html to php so if someone clicks on one of my pages from a seach engine they will automatically go to the current page. I realize that my pages may have gone supplemental due to no page rank and lack of content but would it be possible to remove supplemental result by setting up a no index in my htacces for google and wait for them to remove all my pages and then remove the no index and wait to get indexed again with the proper paths?

thanks
htdawg

[tedster]

Google doesn't really index "pages" it indexes URLs. So are you saying that URLs with the old .html extensions are now labeled Supplemental Results? If so, I would say let Google sort that out as they want to. As long as you have a proper 301 redirect in place, you've done what you should.

[g1smd]

You could have saved all that pain by directing files ending in .html file names to be parsed as containing PHP scripts. Google would never have known that you used the technology behind your website.

Look at the Apache AddHandler and AddType directives.