One year of Phoenix Forums!

[SMcNeill]

Thanks again to Steve and Cheers!

Our next goal: Be able to Google QB64pe or have it come up when we Google QB64, it doesn't last time I checked on a Nook device.

And I hope Pete is OK.

Part of that is the way our SEO is screwed up.  When I bought the domain from hostgator, they had a WordPress setup already in place so folks could just jump in and make a Wordpress site.  All we needed at the time was a simple set of forums, so I did the one-click forum installation setup for us and that's how we got these forums and all up just a few hours after RC Cola deleted and took down our .net home.  Somewhere along the way, hostgator is trying to use SEO on the default Wordpress site -- which we don't even have, nor use at all -- and it considers the forums to be a subset of that.  I'll certainly admit to not being any sort of expert for webhosting, optimization, and sorting out this type of issue, though I keep learning more about it as time and experimentation goes along.  I *think* if I ever just completely deleted the Wordpress junk, it'd be a breeze to work out the SEO afterwards, but what I'm worried about is just what would happen to the forums and all if I did so?  Would *JUST* Wordpress disappear, or would our whole forum setup/database get corrupted or be deleted with it?  A backup and restore could probably fix any issues, but how long would the forums be down for to do so?  Is it really worth the hassle and the chance that something could go wrong, to mess with what's currently working??

Personally, I don't think so.  Sure, we might not be the easiest to find on the google search listing, but BASIC has a limited audience nowadays, and I think simple word of mouth and existing users sharing links to our site and Discord is enough for the serious users out there to find us.   When I do a Goggle search for QB64, we come up about 6th on the result list -- even with the SEO acting goofy.  Honestly, I think that's pretty good since we're technically QB64PE now and not just QB64.