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I am a little confused about renaming pages.
If I rename a page to xyzcorporation.html from xyzcorp.html, will anything bad happen?
I have overwritten xyzcorp to xyzcorporation.html
Also, I have a new page called xyzcorp
I just want to make sure that I wont get penalized by google
If I rename a page to xyzcorporation.html from xyzcorp.html, will anything bad happen?
Yes, a giant meteor will plummet from the sky and mash up your server :-)
Actually, you will lose serps and backlinks for the old page, so it's best if you do a 301 permanent redirect from the old filename to the new filename. With Apache, in the .htaccess, it would be something like this:
redirect 301 /old_filename.htm
http://www.example.org/new_filename.htm
Also, I have a new page called xyzcorp
That confuses things somewhat - does it have to have the exact filename as the page you moved? How about you just put an underscore in it or something?
O.K., here's what I did
origianlly there was a page, lets say it was called lights.html
But I decided that I wanted to rename that page to lightsa.html
The new lightsa really is a main page of the entire directory where lights.html can be subdirectory under lights.html
Now, what I have are two good pages
I feel I'm fine now, I dont' need any 301 error codes or any redirecting codes, because I'm not redirecting or anything.
Too pooped to do any more now.
Good night until tomorrow.
you will lose serps and backlinks for the old page
Amy, If the page is has not yet collected backlinks from other sites it doesn't make much difference if you change it but if it had important links to it and had PR based on those links it would have been best to have left it as it was. It looks like in this case changing things didn't hurt.
You wouldn't get penalized for renaming a page but you could lose the PR the old url had collected. PR is related to inbound links and those links would still be pointing to the old URL while the new URL would not have those links.
Thank you so much Annej.
