SEO friendly 301 redirect .htm to .aspx

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SEO friendly 301 redirect .htm to .aspx

I currently have a small-midsize website with .htm extensions. I have redesigned the full website, this time using a .aspx extension. I want to issue 301 redirects to keep my search engine rankings, but am unsure of how to do so from an .html page in a spider friendly way. With research I have repeatedly encountered references to ISAPI redirects (but no where can I seem to find a full explanation, just a link to isapiredirect.com, which does not load). Other than this I have been advised to run all .htm pages through the asp.net engine and issue a redirect through asp code. I have no idea how to get that done.

I am unfamiliar with asp.NET (the new site was not designed by me), and only with LAMP, which seems far more simply managed with .htaccess.

Thank you so much for any help, time, considerations or suggestions

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You can use a .htaccess file if you get a license to the Helicon's ISAPI Rewrite module. It might be a familiar environment for you. But you are right, the home page doesn't load.

http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/isapi/

Here's a link to some information about the product. It does work, it's a good product. I'm not sure I'd recommend ordering it while the vendor's site is down though.

EDIT

The vendor site is back up and here: http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/

marcc 2009-07-02 20:53:26

Thank you very much for this answer, it cleared up what exactly ISAPI is. Are there options in place of this though? Hopefully one that would not require a purchase? It seems impossible for there to be no simpler solution. Perhaps you could explain more about (and possibly why it is not applicable) forcing .htm pages to be run parsed for asp code?

2009-07-02 23:59:05

There's probably nothing more simple than installing this isapi_rewrite component. But it's certainly very easy to write a custom http module in C# and doing the rewrites there. For more information, check out: http://www.sitefinitywatch.com/blog/09-01-09/URL_Rewriting_using_a_Custom_HttpModule.aspx

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