Page Not Found Issues

[Mike]

A few of you may have experienced Page Not Found Errors this evening. That was my doing, Configuring the forum for better Google/Yahoo Search engine rankings.

The issue has been fixed.

[doglver]

Phewwww! I thought I messed something up:sign0177:

[izzys_dad]

I thought the traffic in here was just high,or my pc was acting up.

Thanks mike.

[Mike]

No, that's why we have our own dedicated server. We do not share with any other website. So, any page not found issues are pretty serious to me. For that matter, any performance issue.

The server we have has been rock solid and we have, in the current server configuration, the ability to handle probably 1500 users on at a time. Currently, during the day, we have between 20-35 on at any given time.

The only change people will see is if you look at the address bar, the URL page names have all been changed to friendlier names and there is a Permalink on posts. This is all designed to assist Search engines read the site. There were over 100 changes made to the forum yeterday to assist search engines, most are not visible to the user. You may see the forum speed increase a bit too, because of the optimization that took place.

Because most of our forums are private, the code has to really be "friendly" to Google and Yahoo and a nigtly submission has now been created. We will have a more open and dedicated "front page' in a few months and I am just trying to get a jump on getting the search engines to index us here better as it takes time.

I do not anticipate any other forum issues until Feb/March when we update the software and add some major features that come with the update. It will be of the late night/early morning variety and not my 4pm tinkering that I did yesterday.