so, out with the old and in with the new. folder had the old, i put the new in public_html. of course for the index.html i had to change the link path from /old.htm to http://www.cancunandrivieramaya.com/new.htm should i put the new into the folder, or does it make a diddly?? tim

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Not sure I understand the question............?

oops. sorry about that Northie. i didn't make that very clear, did i?

i had oldwebpage.htm i am replacing it with newwebpage.htm. previously oldwebpage.htm was in public_html/tours. my tours/index.html called for the page from that folder. i have put newwebpage.htm in public_html so, in tours/index.htm i have to call the page using my full url.

should i put my newwebpage.htm in public_html/tours? or does it make any difference as long as it is being called properly? tim

I still don't get it.

i'm afraid i don't know how to make it any clearer. thanks anyway. tim

how and where you place your files is entirely up to you and what works best for your site.

bear in mind if your change file.html to newfile.html and deleted the original file.html requests to this page will create a 404 error for your user.

you would need to set a 301 redirect so the users going to file.html get redirected through to newfile.html

if you keep file.html on your site as well as newfile.html and they hold the same content you might end up on the sour end of google's duplicate content filters.

other than that i can't work out what it is you're trying to figure out.

smart questions get smart answers.

so, old is like this

public_html/tours/index.html

and new is like

public_html/newwebpage.htm

?

if so, and the newwwebpage.htm is a replacement for the old webpage, you will need to do a redirect.

if html files go through your php parser then replace the old content with

<?php

header("HTTP/1.0 301 Found");

header("Location: http://www.site.com/newwebpage.htm");

?>

or if you access to your .htaccess file then add this line

redirect 301 /tours/oldpage.html http://www.site.com/newwebpage.htm

thanks mobtex and Northie. you're close.   okay, let me do this, Previously in tours/index.html, it Was

<a href="xcaret.htm">Xcaret</a>

Now, because Dumme forgot to put the new webpage in public_html/tours but rather just put it in public_html, it is

<a href="http://www.cancunandrivieramaya.com/xcaret_private_rm.htm">Private Tour to Xcaret</a>

so rather than trying to figure out how to transfer files, i just edited tours/index.html. now i've probably spent more time asking about this than figuring out how to transfer files!! LOL!! it probably doesn't make a didly sh*t difference anyway. i'm just curious. tim