Kevan

Smoked

Keeper

Day

Frog

Thanks Thomas. Looks like I added an extra colon on the first one too... Should have been http://www.google.com/webmasters/ or http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ I'll use Copy/Paste next time.

RollerCoaster (Another Sim game)

Dude

You can also add a Google Sitemap to your website to cut down on Google crawler traffic. Basically YOU tell Google what pages or sections of your site are new and Google only (mostly) pulls what that. It still does a complete crawl about once a month though. It took about a week before I started to see a difference on my site but the Google traffic dropped to half by the next month. (Below both MSN and Slurp) Plus I now have a lot better idea of how users get to my site through Google AND I can see how the Google crawler views my site. Of course your results may vary. Check it out. http:://www.google.com/webmasters or http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

Walker

Spider

Wave (as in bow wave riding)

Baseball

Movie

Rib

Short

Thanks for all the "welcomes".

So this example would take (for example) about.htm and rename it to about.php only if about.php existed? Otherwise it puts about.htm back? I'll see what I can do. Thanks

Hi, new guy here learning his way, taking over site work. I want to enter into my browser address: www.my-domain.com/anyword and have the server use anyword as a base to look for files with extensions? e.g. anyword.html, anyword.htm, anyword.php etc. I do not want to create an entry for every file I might have. I also want to use that approach in my page href=links if possible. The main goal is to make it easier to change file names in the future /application.html today might be /application.php next year. or I could upload about.html and test it on my own while existing visitors still view about.htm. Getting search engines to see the new ??.html is an redirection issue for later. I know that a >DirectIndex statement in the .htaccess file controls the search order for default pages. if the client enters www.domain.com the server will look for index.html index.htm .... default.htm. This would be similar except looking for files. Thanks for any ideas and thanks for being here to read this. Kevan