I updated my site with a different extension- aspx to.html on Sept. 4th.  now only my home page  is getting hits and all of my other pages are dead links.  I was hoping google would have updated by now but hasn't. 
My other site pages with the .aspx extension are still showing up but of course don't go anywhere.

What should I do?
Can I do something to speed things up?

there may be something that can be done via the .htaccess file
I know it can be done for .php - .html and vis versa.
The coders here will soon let you know tho!

aomcopier wrote:

I updated my site with a different extension- aspx to.html on Sept. 4th.  now only my home page  is getting hits and all of my other pages are dead links.  I was hoping google would have updated by now but hasn't. 
My other site pages with the .aspx extension are still showing up but of course don't go anywhere.

What should I do?
Can I do something to speed things up?

What is the url?
Technically, IIS would not have any problem with that, but if you have any of your elements that are <asp:...> they will cease to function properly, as the ISAPI filter for asp.net is not getting called.

I would be interested to see wha you are talking about.

After taking a look at the source for your home page I see that it will work.

One thing I noticed off the bat is that a lot of your URLs are not  SE friendly.
Have you considered using URLRewriter?

For that to work the pages have to be exact just with a different extension?

Here is an example of what is going on.
The aspx one is my old site and html is my new site

www.tonerovernight.com/GuestMenus/hpser … fault.aspx

http://www.tonerovernight.com/Default.h … r+Printers


Also...

I havent had a chance to add meta tags ect...

aomcopier wrote:

For that to work the pages have to be exact just with a different extension?

Here is an example of what is going on.
The aspx one is my old site and html is my new site

www.tonerovernight.com/GuestMenus/hpser … fault.aspx

http://www.tonerovernight.com/Default.h … r+Printers


Also...

I havent had a chance to add meta tags ect...

The first link doesn't seem to work.

The point I'm making is that aspx files are typically served in IIS with the aspnet_isapi.dll.
If you have any code in the aspx file that is specific to asp.net like any <asp:label /> tags they are rendered serverside via the asp.net isapi filter and transformed into standard html objects like <span> objects. If you leave those tags in and just rename the document to a .htm extension, those tags will not be rendered and come across to the browser as strange malformed tags.

You will experience the same kind of effect if you rename a .php file to an htm extension.

There is a way to tweak IIS and force it to serve .htm extensions with whatever isapi filter you assign to it.
However there is no real point to this, but I have seen it done.
Some sites want to obfuscate the fact that they use a certain language like cold fusion, so they reassign the .cfm extensions to .htm and tell IIS to use the cold fusion isapi filter with .htm files.

However I didn't see any of those in your code, so it looks like you are just fine.

I did point out that you are using a viewstate object in your code, which may have been just leftover from your conversion. Viewstate content in html serves no purpose, so you can reduce the overall size of your document by removing it.

My I ask you removed it from the aspx entension?

Also, I mentioned that  many of your URLs have LONG and non Search Engine friendly pahts.
For example you have links like "/Category/06a405fbfa67423ca93cf7d80426c9fa/lexmark.html". Search engines are likely to ignore those all together. You may want to look into using a tool like URLRewriter.net to make cleaner links like "Category/SomeName/Lexmark.htm" instead.

Lastly, I see that you still have ajax extensions integrated into the page.
What ajax features are you using?

After looking it over it seems to me like (and correct me if Im wrong) you had this ite written in asp.net at some point, but you decided to move it to another platform instead. But in doing so you left in a lot of remnents of the asp.net in the code.

I hope that helps.

Was this a Dot Net Nuke site that you converted?

Thanks for your help but I didn't understand much of what you wrote about.  I am not the creater of this thing.  It is some what of a cookie cutter website and I just add in my information.  They switched over from the aspx to the html.  I was ranked ok on many of my pages but now those pages are gone.  I guess I will just have to wait till googlebot comes around and concentrate on my SEO stuff.  Thanks again I will check out to see if I can change those long number discriptions but I have 6000 products!

if you're talking about the site tonerovernight.com then I can see that the URLs are quite SE friendly, no question mark or long query strings - but they could be better.

Why you chose to change from .aspx to .html i do not know - this was probably a mis-informed decision and, from what i can see, really no need for it.

If someone told you that 'static' pages were better then 'dynamic' pages or you should use the .html extension instead of .aspx then they were lying - it was a theory put about the SEO world over 4 years ago. A lot has changed since then.

Years ago, SEs would avoid long and complicated query strings in fear of getting into infinite loops when session ids were propagated in the URL. This meant that people went to all sorts of lengths to disguise the fact that the url consisted of a query sting. These days it's not a problem, just follow these simple rules-of-thumb

1 - limit the number of variables to 3
2 - always keep the variables in the same order (avoids duplicate content issues)
3 - avoid using the string "id" in any of the variable names

aomcopier wrote:

Thanks for your help but I didn't understand much of what you wrote about.  I am not the creater of this thing.  It is some what of a cookie cutter website and I just add in my information.  They switched over from the aspx to the html.  I was ranked ok on many of my pages but now those pages are gone.  I guess I will just have to wait till googlebot comes around and concentrate on my SEO stuff.  Thanks again I will check out to see if I can change those long number discriptions but I have 6000 products!

I see.
In that case you will just have to wait for googlebot to come around again.
You might consider uploaded a sitemap to their webmaster tools application.
That seems to help google make sense of large sites.

Best of luck