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Ome problem I noticed however, after posting a reply to a post i get directed to a blank page. However, if I use the back button I can see the new post I padded to the thread.

Seems as though i should be redirected back to the thread, no?

That's strange, it's not doing that for me. Is anyone else having that problem?

Another thing, we can't drog and drop text in the editor anymore - 

I will let her know about that and see if she can fix it. Any idea what could be causing that? Maybe a setting?

I'm not sure if pretty URLs is activated yet. I let her know about the issues.

StorMe, thanks for the input.  Could you help by telling me the browser and operating system you are using when you have the problem.  When some have the problem and some do not one of those can be the culprit.  I haven't yet added Pretty URLs so that can't be the problem. 

I'll see what happens when I post.

Thanks!  As I thought about it, you might get a strange layout with a different browser but the page is served up by the program on the server.  I too get the index after I post using FireFox.  I will continue to see if any solutions can be found.  Anyone else having this problem?

Looking good!!

Thanks, I appreciate it. The best thing about the new website is that its SEO and social media friendly. This is going to be critical to it's future growth.

Just this month alone, we have seen some positive improvements. We have added some valuable new resources for every state. The forum went from 20th place for the search term storage auctions to 15th place. We dropped from a 365,000 Alexa rank to 293,000. We have had the second best month in the forum's history for creating new topics. This has also been the best month for new posts since March.

Best of all, MovieMan hasn't ousted me yet! 

We have had the second best month in the forum's history for creating new topics.

Best of all, MovieMan hasn't ousted me yet! 

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FWIW, the blank page after a new post is still happening.

This hasn't happened to me. Is anyone else having this problem?

Hmmm, I wonder why I'm seeing it listed in the 48th spot.

Just wondering, what is the percentage of traffic coming here from outside the USA and how many hits have you had from the Baiduspider in the last 48 hours?

I'm not sure. Sometimes the ranking is effected by your location but I don't think it would effect it that much. I check ranking a few different ways. I will select private browsing and then search for the term. But for more accurate results, I use this SEO tool seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/keyword-position.html  I have tested several rank checking tools and found this to be the most reliable.

It appears that about 30% of the forums traffic comes from outside of the United States. The UK, Canada and Germany are the only 3 traffic sources that are even worth mentioning. Asian countries aren't even contributing 1%.

I'm not very familiar with Asian search engines but how does the Baiduspider effect traffic? I thought it was just a bot that crawled your site?

Are you using Google Analytics instead of your own raw log files? if so, why would you want to do that?

Yes, I think Analytics goes into more detail doesn't it?

How can there be more detail than your own server logs?

You forget, I'm about as tech savvy as a chimp in space. Yeah, I have the astronaut suit on but someone else is flying the ship. 

I just wanted to let you all know that we added Google Translate to make it easier on our visitors from other countries.

I'm sure you all have noticed the new smileys...kind of hard to miss. Yes, the new smileys are large and a little distracting; however, if you don't like them, I only have one thing to say to you. 

Yes, the new smileys are large and a little distracting; however, if you don't like them, I only have one thing to say to you. 

Yep, they're cheesy as hell. I won't be using them and I gradually will be removing from any of my recent posts as well. 

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Tried to the use the cool one thinking only the word would come up. How wrong I was.

You'll get used to them. You have to admit it, some of them are pretty funny. What is the cool smiley doing anyway? It kind of looks like he took a bite out of his finger and is chewing it up.

I just wanted to let you all know that we added Google Translate to make it easier on our visitors from other countries.

Ah yeah, there's a bit of a problem with that feature there Chief. If a username means something in a foreign language, it also gets translated. For example, my username "Alloro" when used in Italian means "laurel". So if I select English from the drop down box, all of my posts in the forum show up with laurel next to them as the username.