B-truE wrote:
If I "spoof" the html extension, I will (as I understand it) be slowing down my html pages while Apache looks them over for PHP.
Yes, this is true. But you can always use an inline frame if you want pure html integration.
Quote:1 - Do you know where I can find information on how to add a syndicated blog (from someone elses' site) to a *.php page (on my site)?
Right here. I can help you with this. What will happen is that you will have the blog FTP the content (in as plain a template as possible) and you will simply include said file into your page.
Of course each blog tool might have some help docs on this.
Quote:2 - If I were to change my main index.html page for my website to index.php, how much would I suffer in the search engines that have me indexed as index.HTML?
If you do it right you will not suffer at all. What you want to do is a 301 redirect and that will redirect visitors AND transfer Google page rank (even links to the old file will count as backlinks).
I can teach you how to do that.
Quote:3 - And, what is the best strategy for making the change (from *.html to *.php), considering there are thousands of pages that link to the index.html page (including the search engines).
I guess I already answered this. ;-) Just use a 301 redirect. Here is a PHP example:
Code:header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.able2know.com/newpage/newurl.htm");
exit();