Redirect or other

[bluewalrus]

I designed a page with an index.html but then changed it to index.php. There are now however 50 pages linking to the index.html and I was wondering what the best way to redirect them was both for SEO and for users. Would it be a meta redirect or some javascript or something else?

[Nile]

You want to redirect them based on the referral url? Or what?

[bluewalrus]

I'm not sure on what referral means I'm not controlling where links are coming from. But I'm assuming the pages linking have <a href="site/index.html"></a> and when the user loads that index.html I want it to go to index.php. I also don't want the index.html coming up in search results which is why I deleted it because when there was a .php and .html the .html come up in searchs.


....Sometimes I lose track of my own posts haha.

[Nile]

Try searching Google for robots.txt, and I would use meta redirection.

[Medyman]

Try searching Google for robots.txt, and I would use meta redirection.

Meta direction won't work to fix his SEO.

@bluewalrus,
You want to use 301 redirects for this at the server level.