Well I've got all versions of the home page 301 redirected as far as
the non www version pointing to the www version, the /index.php?
option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 pointed to the regular main url, and
the /index.php redirected to the main url so that should take care of
the front page anyway. Other than that I have a video component to the
site, a profiles component of the site, a blog componenent, a forum, a
photo gallery in each profile, a groups component, and a whole slug of
other small components to the site with 30,000 registered members. So
here I would have to change the url to each photo, each video, each
forum post, and each blog post ect.

I just can't do that at this point, I'm just going to stick with the
idea of building a good quality website that people want to use and
hope Google can catch up and just rely on the traffic we bring in from
the other two search engines until that day comes. There's no doubt in
my mind that the only other chat site out there that should beat me at
this point is Yahoo, and given the fact that they are filled with spam
bots the only thing going for them is the fact that so many people
have used it for so many years. We have every single feature they have
minus the spam bots.

I've lost my rankings in Yahoo for the short term by switching back to
non sef urls which will cost me a couple thousand dollars a month
until they get us sorted back out, I just hope this move works to
finally get ranked in Google and that the short term loss pays off in
the long term.

I'm starting to get irritated with being burried by a bunch of penny
ante straight html sites with 2 or 3 pages and a simple cheesy generic
chat script with no features or profile systems that are all part of
the same site which just builds hundreds of crappy "directories" and
mirror sites to link back to themselves.... "cough" (chat avenue) in
Google. I mean these people have no content at all and my trouble
seems to be too much content. How does this coincide with Google's
phillosiphy?

I'm sure it will all work out, I just hope I don't have to eat spam
and romain noodles forever waiting on it.

On Sep 23, 2:45 pm, JohnMu wrote: