Index.html vs. home.html

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Hi all,

I recently rolled out a new site that replaced an old out dated one. The file I used to hold all the code for my home page is named index.html. How ever, if you do a yahoo search for the page, it fails because it is looking for a URL ending in home.html.

I have submitted a new site map to all the search engines and thought that might clear the problem up. but I was wrong, except for Google it seams to have no problem finding the correct URL.

is there a quick fix for this or do I have to re-write my code to use home.html?

Thanks
Bill

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Use a 301 redirect–either using the tools provided in your host’s control panel or using an htaccess file in the root of the web folder.

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html
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let me guess. The name of the redirect file would be home.html in my case.

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Your old page’s name goes where “oldpage” is indicated, and your new page’s name goes where “newpage” is indicated.

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I found the .htaccess file on the server, and it became clear to me then what you meant. I have it working fine now.

Thank you very much.
Bill

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I have done in on my server too but I have done it for almost all the pages because after redesigning new website i did not wanted old pages to go to 404 error so i have redirected all the old pages to new pages

is too much redirection bad for search engines?

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Nope, it’s fine.