htm to html

[diablo]

I have a site that is completely htm, but is being redeveloped and will use html.

How do I tell the search engines that the htm pages are now html pages without losing rankings?

 

[Edwin]

Some code examples that may help...
https://www.slightfuture.com/how-to/redirect-htm-to-html

 

[diablo]

Some code examples that may help...
https://www.slightfuture.com/how-to/redirect-htm-to-html

Thanks Edwin

So for example if I used:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule "\.(htm)$" "%{REQUEST_SCHEME}://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}l" [QSA,R=301,L]

where does it mention pages are now html or am I missing code?

 

[accelerator]

Why can't you just use .htm on the new site?

 

[diablo]

Why can't you just use .htm on the new site?

Not 100% sure. I think it's something to do with the elements available in html5, but don't quote me on that!

 

[accelerator]

Not 100% sure. I think it's something to do with the elements available in html5, but don't quote me on that!

To the best of my knowledge the extensions are interchangeable, so just rename the new .html files to .htm, check for internal links, and you should be fine ... unless there's something I'm missing ...

 

[Adam H]

Not 100% sure. I think it's something to do with the elements available in html5, but don't quote me on that!

Its a file extension, I doubt that has any correlation to the page content what so ever. I personally don't see any plausible reason why you would need to change and consider redirecting pages unless its a major structure change such as a database driven site.

If someone proves me wrong and I learn something new then great, but as far as im concerned you have no need to do anything like that.

 

[Kari]

To the best of my knowledge the extensions are interchangeable, so just rename the new .html files to .htm, check for internal links, and you should be fine ... unless there's something I'm missing ...

Exactly my thinking

HTML is a static language so the extension is irrelevant it will always be processed the same so just change all code .html to .html if you really want to but there shouldn't be any additional benefit from my knowledge

 

[diablo]

So Google won't see it as a different page? That's my real concern.

 

[Kari]

So Google won't see it as a different page? That's my real concern.

I don't even see why your changing the extension , the coding is still processed the same so you can make all CSS changes etc and still leave extension
o use the .htaccess example above to effectively redirect all .htm to the .html files but there is no real benefit by changing extension

 

[Adam H]

So Google won't see it as a different page? That's my real concern.

Changing URL structure shouldnt be taken lightly, if there is no need to do it then you shouldnt.

 

[mat]

If you are worried about it just put something like...

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.htm$ $1.html [L]

in the .htaccess file.

 

[Skinner]

Back in the day, HTM was generally assumed to be HTML 3.0 or below, it changed to html with 4.0+. If the code were written recently then the odds are htm/html is just software/dev preference and makes no difference at all.