I apologize for the inconvenience. Over the past few months, I have been re-naming a lot of pages on RF Cafe in order to accommodate search engine preferences. Like you , I hate it when websites change their page addresses, but after almost 10 years, it is time to get it right. This will benefit you, the visitor, in the end. Google, Yahoo, and the other big search services prefer that page names use hyphens rather than underscores for page names; it makes parsing more accurate for their software. If the page you came for looks like this: http://www.rfcafe.com/folder_name/file_name.htm ¯ Please try replacing the underscores with hyphens like this: ¯ http://www.rfcafe.com/folder-name/file-name.htm There is at lease a 98% chance it will fix the problem. Most of the remaining 2% will be fixed by removing _links from a file name. If all else fails, please use the Search page or the Site Map. Here is the text I have been providing to RF Cafe advertisers who have asked about the file name changes: "A while back, I started changing some RF Café file names in order to make them - and the entire website - more compliant with search engine optimization techniques. One of those techniques is to prefer hyphens over underscores in file names, since it is easier for the cataloging software to parse individual words from strings when hyphens are used rather than underscores. From way back in the early days of coding, underscores have been regarded in the same manner as letters and numbers when parsing strings of text. The difference is still apparent just by looking at the file manager on your computer (i.e., Windows Explorer). If you have a file name that uses underscores and look at its position in the alphabetized list of files, and then change that underscore to a hyphen, the position will likely change (assuming there are a large number of files in the folder). The file name changes have been made a little at a time, and a couple weeks ago I began changing file names for the vendor pages. The other change, that mainly only affects some of the vendor pages, is the removal of "_links" from file names, since, believe it or not, can actually harm page ranking in search engines, which determines the position in a search result. All of this is being done in order to increase the likelihood of people doing searches ending up on RF Café, which increases the likelihood of someone seeing your advertisement." Thank-you for your patience. Sincerely, Kirt Blattenberger |