What would you do ?

[mojoco]

@ Systreg. No problem at all.

 

[Systreg]

What is your file structure currently, can WP permalinks replicate it?

Sorry, I don't know what file structure means? All I can say is the .info site is made with plain html and I think WP is php? I don't know about permalinks or how that would work with html, definitely best for me to forget about this.

@ Systreg. No problem at all.

Thanks, I'll creep away quietly now, though, too difficult for me

 

[Frog]

Sorry, I don't know what file structure means? All I can say is the .info site is made with plain html and I think WP is php? I don't know about permalinks or how that would work with html, definitely best for me to forget about this.

If you've got a good domain to do it on I wouldn't throw the towel in so quickly

What you could to to minimise the risk is to break it into steps. Right now, you could change your urls from domain.com/fraud-risks.html to domain.com/fraud-risks/, do this using 301's.

Then while you're waiting 6-8 weeks, set up a Wordpress blog on the new domain - set it to noindex for now. Use all the exact same url's as above. once you are ready to switch over, remove the noindex from the new site, alter the htaccess file in the first site.

You could easily outsource the full process on rentacoder for < $50.

 

[jwm]

What you could to to minimise the risk is to break it into steps. Right now, you could change your urls from domain.com/fraud-risks.html to domain.com/fraud-risks/, do this using 301's.

You can add .html to posts within wordpress and there is a plugin that lets you do the same for pages - so this change wouldn't even be needed as you could just move to the same url structure as now

But I agree with Frog, spend $50 and get someone on rentacoder to do it for you if you don't fancy trying to do it yourself

 

[Systreg]

@ Frog @ jwm,

Thanks, but this is beyond my capabilities, I'm not techy and tend to break things when I touch them

I don't see the point in paying someone £50 to do it for me either, as the .info wasn't made to be a money making site, although it earns around £120 a year from Adsense. If I had some sort of money making aff site that needed 301 moving, then yes, I would pay someone to do what needs doing, but not for a non earning site.

Probably far easier to leave the .info as it is and make a new site on the .co.uk domain I have that's suitable for covering all other types of scams, rather than 419 scam specific like the .info site is.

 

[jwm]

No worries systreg

I would imagine you could generate significantly more income from your site than you do now by selling a few links - Frog can probably tell you better than me what a PR5 link is worth these days

 

[Systreg]

@ Jwm, selling links is not something I've done before, I have a few PR3, a couple of PR4 and 1 PR5 sites, not sure what the score is with regards to selling links, and what do these paid links look like, just a standard text link?

Do paid links have to be to sites that are the same subject as my sites?

I often get people emailing to ask for a link exchange, and their sites might be to do with things like finance, music, shipping etc, I don't know why they bother, why would I put links to sites like those on a site that's nothing to do with any of those subjects.

 

[Frog]

Selling links on a pr5 site will make you way more than £120 a year... but at the risk of losing your pagerank/getting removed from Google.

Paid link can look like anything, some people will just stick them all in a blogroll, some will sell blog posts, put the links in footers, etc etc. Varying different ways to do it depending on your attitude to risk.

If you sell 1-2 links to related companies and add their links within your normal text, there is no way at all anyone can ever know you sold them, its risk free cash.

If you sell 10 casino links (and if you wanted to, you easily could) and put them in the sidebar, its high risk/high reward.

If you don't care about the site, then there is very little to lose if its only making £120 a year just now. You could sell £240 of links in the next day if you wanted I'm sure, then if it did end up burned its no huge problem - you just cashed in 2 years earnings.