I have made major changes with several of my domains in the past and had mixed results on my placements with the search engines. Thought that others thinking about making the move to a REW site may share some of my questions. I have decided along with 2 of my colleagues to get REW template sites. One is going to convert from a Number 1 Expert site, the other 2 of us are still deciding about converting from an existing site to REW or starting a new site. I am leaning towards the conversion route.

From what I have seen most of your template sites are .php extension sites. A couple exceptions like the new site for JudyO have .htm pages. On my Ocean30.com site I have around 270 .htm pages in Google's cache. What do you recommend in this type situation?

My second assumption, from what I have seen is that the sites are designed and then content added prior to the sites being brought online. With January thru April being our busy season, aside from learning curve and time requirements, are there other conversion type issues we should consider?

With many of the sites that I have exchanged links with having software that tracks links to confirm they are not removed (easy to understand the value here), what is the best approach to deal with link partners - do I just need to contact each of them?

Photos at the top of the pages; I really like the designs that your team has created...Is it an option for community specific pages to have their own series of photos? For example - photos of Jupiter on Jupiter related pages and photos of Singer Island on Singer Island pages?

Last question - for now - I think your new Destin listings page is awesome. Is that an option?

Looking forward to finally starting what I have wanted to do for months. Thanks for providing the great resource that this forum and the SEO-Guy forum are.

Dave

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Dave Abernathy
Waterfront Properties & Club Communities
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