Redesigning a website and losing the .html from pages! .301 needed?

[AdvimateLtd]

I have redesigned a customers website, i kept all pages with the same name however they have gone from domain.com/pagename.html to domain.com/pagename (lost the .html) will these pages automatically be picked up as the same or do i need to do a 301 direct. If i need to do a redirect is there a faster way? As there's about 250 pages!

Thank you

[Moreleads]

Hi  AdvimateLtd,

Yes you need to do 301´s to pass link equity to the new url´s .  You can use a tool like this one here to facilitate the work https://donatstudios.com/RewriteRule_Generator

Hope this helps.

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[Roman-Delcarmen]

First - Make the redirection using htaccess, plugin or whatever you want.

Second - Remember to add the right canonical tag on every page to avoid duplicate content issues.

Third - Just to make sure make a simple test. Type "site:www.yoursite.com" and see how many pages have been index by google and check it out, if you made 250 pages and there's 500 pages, you should check your Search Console Account.