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Thank you - that helps!  

Sincerely,

Sandra

Hi Richard,

Can you elaborate?  I don't know what you mean.

Thank you,

Sandra

Hi Monica,

What is my GWT?  (I'm not a developer.)

With regards to the redirects, I am referring to Page 1 redirecting to Page 2 then redirecting to Page 3.

Story,

Site was first BASIC static, which was great. Then I was told upgrade it., so I upgraded to somewhat dynamic. (so now Page 1 now redirecting to New Page 1).

Then told, site needs to be upgraded again - guess what, this changes my extension again - wasn't told that was going to happen. So now I need to have old Page 1  redirecting to New Page 1, now re-redirect to newer Page 1 - because these two pages previous pages are indexed and getting a little link juice.  NOW, I realize I should have stayed static and never gone dynamic; however, with switching back to static, it won't be the same extension as the first static site   Hence, Page 1 now redirecting to New Page 1 to Newer Page and Re Re Redirecting to newest Page 1 because all of the above pages are indexed.

Do I just say FORGET IT, and scratch it all and let me get indexed as site gets crawled, because with all the 'updates' and 'upgrades' I supposedly needed (which I now know I didn't) all of my pages have fallen off of Google Page 1 and I'm lucky with anything is even on Page 2 or 3.

THANK YOU Again!!

Hello Everyone,

I currently have a dynamic site and it is my understanding that switching to a static site would be beneficial.

I already have some 301's in place from when my site had a .php extension to the new extension now with ./?... etc.  Is it okay to re redirect them?  How many redirects are too many?

Thank you in advance for suggestions.  Have a Fabulous Friday!

Sandra

Thank you to everyone for all of your help and suggestions.  I guess this will be on the top of my 'to do list' switching from dynamic to static.  I already have some 301's in place from my site had a .php extension to the new extension now with ./?... etc.  Is it okay to re redirect them?  How many redirects are too many?

Thank you so much!

Sandra

Thank you to everyone for all of your help and suggestions.  I guess this will be on the top of my 'to do list' switching from dynamic to static.  I already have some 301's in place from my site had a .php extension to the new extension now with ./?... etc.  Is it okay to re redirect them?  How many redirects are too many?

Thank you so much!

Sandra

Thank you Hutch42.  I guess I have alot of work ahead of me with switching to static and making sure I get all the redirects pointed correctly.

Thank you for the article.  I just read it.  Some great information.  I would love an update to it, since it's from 2008, unless an update is not necessary, if it is still relevant.

So is the consensus, switch to static?  (so much work - uugh).

• Yeah, but do visitors really even look at what is in the URL?  I personally don't care (from a shopper's point of view) what URLs say.  Am I alone on this thought?

Yeah, but do visitors really even look at what is in the URL?  I personally don't care (from a shopper's point of view) what URLs say.  Am I alone on this thought?