Changing Platform

from asp to aspx

[TheFlipguy]

Hi all,

I have a website that was developed in ASP. The site itself is about 6 months old and was updated to ASP (from html) about 2 months back. The new ASP pages are just about starting to appear on all the search engines. However, after some thought and for some new features that I wanted to add, I decided to upgrade the site fully to aspx (ASP.Net).

All pages on my website will now be changing to aspx (from asp). What will be the effect on the search engine results? Will this cause any kind of penalty? Just need some thoughts on this from the experts.

Flip

[Easy_Coder]

when you cut over just 301 the old asp pages to the new aspx pages...

[mrMister]

Don't do a 301 unless you can help it. They're not failsafe and some people have experienced problems with them.

You can still use the .asp extention for ASP.Net, you do not have to change your urls to .aspx

If you will not be using classic ASP on your site any more then use extension mapping in IIS to point .asp pages to the ASP.Net processor.

This way your URLs stay the same and you don't risk losing your rankings in the search engines.

[TheFlipguy]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I'm on a shared server so can't do the mapping. Can you tell me what problems can 301 post?

[Easy_Coder]

I think it's the 302 that causes problems...

Here's how you'd handle a 301
Response.Status="301 moved permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.newsite.com/newpage.aspx"

[mrMister]

No, people have reported problems with 301s as well.

I guess if you don't want to switch to a dedicated server then 301 is your only choice.

I'd still ask your web hosts. The mapping can be done on a site by site basis. A decent web host would be happy to change it for you.