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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:13:40AM -0400, Tony Spencer wrote:
> On 4/26/06 9:09 AM, "Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net> wrote:
> 
> > well, i reckon my backlinks and ratings just went to @#$% in a hand basket
> > when i broke all my links by changing *.html to *.shtml for server side
> > includes.  oh, well.
>
> If you QUICKLY drop in a 301 redirect (instead of returning 404) for the old
> urls to the new urls Google, Yahoo, and MSN will continue to credit your
> backlinks.

Or, you could just configure your server to parse .html files for SSI,
which is what every other sane person does, bad advice from the Apache
folks notwithstanding. 

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