Help! My Head Hurts!

[circa1850]

CMS, JOOMLA, MAMBO, WIKI, LIMBO, CONTRIBUTE 3 and on and on.

I think I want to take my site the UNIX/LINUX route and be freed from my computer to update anywhere, anytime.

But I have heard and read that site rankings will drop if I do this. Spiders won't crawl or something like that.

I need serious help and easy to understand terminology. The site in question is www.ceuq.com. More than 310K users this year, up from 103k last year, rapidly growing, specialty niche site, put together in 3 days using MS Publisher.

Achieved Google PR 2 in no time, high returns on all major search engines for specific content, no advertising done, all word of mouth, but all those numbers is exactly what I don't want to lose.

If I edit in MS Publisher, the whole site is off line and uploads change everthing. I drop severely in the rankings and it takes months to come back. If I go with something I can edit in real time, from any computer, by simply logging on, I will no longer be a slave to my computer and MS Publisher.

But are the rumors true regarding linux based sites not achieving high rankings?

Help needed but need pointers, ideas, articles for further review, and simple easy to understand terminology, please.

 

[Dan]

Most sites are run from Linux hosts. The OS has no relation at all to your rankings or anything else.

I don't know how your site runs now, so I wouldn't know how to convert it to another CMS, but you definitely don't need to worry about it's OS.

 

[Daniel15]

If anything, your PageRank would go up. One thing search engines (usually) like is 'nice' HTML code. The code produced by Publisher is usually quite bad...
If you get Joomla with a component for search engine friendly URL's, you'll have quite a nice PageRank :D

Good luck with your site!