Ruven
Well-known member
Thats where i was.Yeah would LOVE to port ALL of my content from the ol' vB 3.8 horsey, but GOTTA preserve that Google page 2 - 3 placement for my little site out of 3 million pages!
That means >no< broken links and searchengine-keyword-rich links. XF is doing great in autogenerating great keyword rich links without an add-on and that's a HUGE plus...
just gotta not have any broken links and have solid redirects of the ol' vB content with no 404's!
So i deleted my giant database with millions of posts and thousands of users.
Next morning everyone showed up to the site to find there was nothing there but a fresh clean install of the latest XF with one or two addons.
They *****ed about their posts, about having to create new accounts (i should have at least saved the user accounts, doh), their pictures, their avatars, etc...
But after a few minutes playing around with all the cool features of xenforo and commenting on how the site seemed way more responsive with xF (and a fresh DB doesnt hurt), they quickly stopped talking about their old junk.
I had struggled with the idea originally.
Then i just said **** it.
Sure i lost some members probably.
Does this mean that i lose my google ranking as well since i just took down 8 years worth of content?