Bike-Talk.com review

I just recently installed vbseo and have been tweaking this site for a little while. The BikeTalk forum was originally under a different owner and I acquired it after their shop closed. It's been quite a journey in moving domains, host changes, and rebuilding this site from the mess it was previously. After moving the site and the old host locked me out of the prior domain it lost it's pr5 ranking, so I hope that installing vbseo will help get things back on track.

After redoing the header recently I haven't gotten around to adding any navigation to the upper right, which ish next on my to-do list. Things seem to be finally coming together and hopefully others will agree.

You should certainly attempt to secure your old domain back from the old host.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

You should certainly attempt to secure your old domain back from the old host.

Wish I could. The previous owner who still owns the domain name instructed the original host to 301 redirect to my domain, however that host only placed a redirect on the forum page and not the home or other pages. That original owner took ill and his family cancelled all business with that hosting company. Now the first domain name has been acquired by a former employee and the whole site fell out of the listings with google.

Wow - that's very unfortunate. :(

Thats alright, I'm not dwelling on it since I can't do anything about it. It's sort of like starting off with a brand new forum, except it already has a built-in membership of 2300, over 3000 threads and 18000 authentic posts. I figure its just a matter of time before it gets listed and then ranked.

That's true. It is definitely still a very valuable content asset.