Hide file extensions and the affect on SEO

51XP4CK

New Member
Hello,

I would like to hide extensions for my urls just like this website:


jaycutler.com/contact



I read that I should use something like this in the htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html


Now I got a question regarding google and SEO

As for now, google shows on google search resaults my site urls with .html extension, for example domain.com/contact.html

As mentioned above I would like to use domain.com/contact and hide the extention in my url and search results.

If I do so how will that affect SEO and how will google show my site urls in the search results pages?
Will I lose all the SEO jouice from my old backlinks pointing to me? Do I need to use some kind of 301 redirect?

My site is 1 year old now and is already ranking pretty well for my nich and targeted keywords, I would hate to see a drop.

Please help me,



Thanks!
 

MarkR

New Member
It probably won't make that much difference for SEO, but yes to keep your ranking you'll have to use a 301 redirect for each page.
 
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