Have I messed up?

Hi there members

I wanted to ask for some help with my settings because I was messaged by a new member on my site, and he said that I should not put all content in html format from my main domain ?

I do not know if I am allowed to post a link but would really like someone who knows about seo to let me know if I have setup my settings correctly ?

Digital World Cable

Also it has been like this for over a year now, and I have 160,000+ spidered links in google.

Thank you very much for any information that can help me

Mickie

Can you be more specific about "html format from main domain" ?

I personally do not recommend using html (or any other for that matter) as an extension simply because it may change to new technology (think of all the old cgi-bin/script.pl links that are now likely dead from just 5 years ago when cgi was king) in the future, but there is nothing inherently wrong with it.

If you're indexed, i do not recommend changing the settings.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Can you be more specific about "html format from main domain" ?

I personally do not recommend using html (or any other for that matter) as an extension simply because it may change to new technology (think of all the old cgi-bin/script.pl links that are now likely dead from just 5 years ago when cgi was king) in the future, but there is nothing inherently wrong with it.

If you're indexed, i do not recommend changing the settings.

I think he was talking about the links to the forums did not exist.

Everything is on the main domain ?

example

General chat forum:
General Chat - Digital World Cable Satellite Console Forum

A thread in general chat:
Forever's not so long - Digital World Cable Satellite Console Forum

they are both on the main domain and not in any folders ?

Is that a bad thing ?

Thank you for the help

Mickie

ahh, he means "root level". nothing wrong with that at all.

It makes for moving threads from 1 forum to another keep the same link (as the forum id isn't a nested heirachy).

I would suggest simply ignoring your member's concerns.

Thank you very much....

There is 1.5million posts on that level ?

Is that still ok ?

Mickie

if you're getting traffic from google, there's nothing broken and you haven't done anything wrong.

Thanks brian sorry to be a pest, I am not very seo clued up and thought I would make sure. I actually just sorted out the site as there was loads of problems due to bad editing in the templates (html validation).

Anyway, Thank you for your time

Mickie

No problem, that's what we're here for