Changing site over to ASP - what SE effects will I notice?

ASP, HTML & the SERPs

[avi wilensky]

My client's website is in the process of changing over from HTML to ASP.

All of the file name extensions will be changed from .htm to .asp. I've never encountered a situation like this, and was wondering how it will effect my site's position on the SERPs (if at all). Furthermore, will all my pages lose their pagerank value due to their new names?

Thanks!

[rmjvol]

They'll all be treated as new pages since the files will be new. Your rankings will essentially start over. Best bet is to make sure *ALL* the old pages do a 301 permanent redirect to the corresponding new .asp page.

Good luck,
Ross

[Windaria]

Best thing to do is to keep them all .html and to have html files parsed by the asp interpreter.

There is absolutely no reason to change over the extensions, it isn't required by anything and won't do anything to help... it will just hurt the way the site ranks and any links that link to the site will be dead (or have the redirects, but there is no reason to go through that).