ASP to PHP

I have several questions about converting a site from ASP to PHP and
the effect.

1. Will there be any adverse effect on SERPs or Page Rank by
converting?

2. URLs will be changed to - mysite.com/a/b/c.asp to
mysite.com/a/b/c.php. Are these two URLs viewed by search engines as
the same URL?

3. Are there any other issues that I should be aware of, in regards to
converting an existing site to PHP, as it relates to the SERPs and
their current positions?

I would appreciate any input.

Thanks,
Craig

Good evening,

craig wrote:

I have several questions about converting a site from ASP to PHP and
the effect.

1. Will there be any adverse effect on SERPs or Page Rank by
converting?

See 2. + 3.

2. URLs will be changed to - mysite.com/a/b/c.asp to
mysite.com/a/b/c.php. Are these two URLs viewed by search engines as
the same URL?

No. So you'll loose PR from inbound links to the old URLs.
You could either install 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones and
hope that SE transfer the PR to the new URLs or don't change the URLs at
all.
You could configure your webserver to treat .asp as the suffix for PHP files
or map .asp URLs to .php files, e.g. with mod_rewrite, if you are using
apache.
Exposing such 'implementation details' is a bad idea - no one really cares,
if you are using PHP, ASP or whatever, so your URLs should better look like
<example.com/a/b/c>. As you see, you'll get into troubles, if you decide ti
change the implementation.

3. Are there any other issues that I should be aware of, in regards to
converting an existing site to PHP, as it relates to the SERPs and
their current positions?

SEs don't care, what you are using on the server-side to generate the
documents - and (with a little bit work on the server-side) may not even be
able to notice that there is server-side processing involved.


HTH

--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

Benjamin Niemann wrote:

Good evening,

craig wrote:

I have several questions about converting a site from ASP to PHP and
the effect.

1. Will there be any adverse effect on SERPs or Page Rank by
converting?

See 2. + 3.

2. URLs will be changed to - mysite.com/a/b/c.asp to
mysite.com/a/b/c.php. Are these two URLs viewed by search engines as
the same URL?

No. So you'll loose PR from inbound links to the old URLs.
You could either install 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones and
hope that SE transfer the PR to the new URLs or don't change the URLs at
all.
You could configure your webserver to treat .asp as the suffix for PHP files
or map .asp URLs to .php files, e.g. with mod_rewrite, if you are using
apache.
Exposing such 'implementation details' is a bad idea - no one really cares,
if you are using PHP, ASP or whatever, so your URLs should better look like
example.com/a/b/c>. As you see, you'll get into troubles, if you decide ti
change the implementation.

3. Are there any other issues that I should be aware of, in regards to
converting an existing site to PHP, as it relates to the SERPs and
their current positions?

SEs don't care, what you are using on the server-side to generate the
documents - and (with a little bit work on the server-side) may not even be
able to notice that there is server-side processing involved.


HTH

--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

Thanks Benjamin, i think i will look at doing a 301.

craig