There is a basic SEO rule: content should only be available via a single URL on your website. There are some legitimate reasons to break that rule. If that happens, you need to take additional action such as use the canonical tag to identify the primary page.

Your home page situation is NOT a legitimate reason to break that rule. It's poor web design. It needs to be fixed. OSE is doing its job correctly. OSE is calling your attention to a SEO issue which requires your attention.

SOLUTION: Remove all references to the /index.php page on your site and replace them with the / page. Also add a 301 redirect from the index.php page to the / page so anyone who bookmarked or linked to the /index.php page is seamlessly taken to your home page.

Without knowing more details, we are left to blindly guess at why Bing/Yahoo are not referencing the main site. If all is well with Google, I would start by logging into Bing Webmaster Tools.

You have a duplicate URL issue.

Your home page and the /phpBB3/index.php offer the same content. This is an SEO issue which needs to be fixed.

In order to implement best SEO practices into your site, it begins with solid website architecture. I have not used phpBB in a long time. I would suggest to check their official site for an add-on or extension which takes care of SEO issues.

There are tons of ideas you can implement. A few suggestions:

• visit similar sites for other teams and see what they are doing to attract members. Copy the good things, leave the bad.

• visit other Chicago Bear sites and look for ideas the same as above.

• network with other Chicago sites such as other sports teams (Bulls, WhiteSox, etc)

• start conversations which people would find interesting. "Should the Bears fire their head coach?", "2012 Chicago Bears draft choices", etc.

• interact with others who talk about the bears on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other sources. Let the world know your site exists.

• add social networking to your site. Allow users to log in with their social accounts.

These ideas are just a start. There are dozens of ideas.

Of course, it would help if this was football season. It would also help if the Bears had a better season

Changing from Squarespace to Wordpress - Will I Lose My Rankings?

Your website architecture has an impact on your rankings. Whenever you change your code, your rankings may change. It depends on many factors. A few examples:

• how is each site coded? Does one site use HTML code with is better coded then the other which leads to the site being more crawlable by search engines?

• will URLs be changing during the move? If so, there is at least a minor loss of link juice. This loss can be made up through various site improvements such as cleaner URLs.

• does the new site resolve various issues which were hurting your SEO performance in the past?

• does the new site offer new features which improve SEO?

• do you have a quality WordPress developer? I am not asking if the developer may have built a WP site before, but rather does your developer regularly build WP sites? There is a big difference between a pure WP developer who loves building WP sites and that's all he/she does, to a developer who makes a WP site one month, then a Joomla site the next, then a Drupal site the month after.

Your question is kind of like asking "I am selling my Chevy and buying a Ford. Will my new Ford be a better car?". There are a lot of follow up questions which need to be asked and answered.

The Stackoverflow site is likely a very bad example to try and follow for two main reasons. First off, it has millions of links and is the #105 most trafficked site in the world. Does your site have similar stats?

Also, it is a forum site. In many senses, a site is a site, but you also need to consider business models. I have used Stack Overflow for years, but today is the first time I have ever been to the site's home page. Would that be ok for your site?

You mention their home page does not hinder usability? I disagree. If you offer 100 links on a page, some people still struggle to locate the right link. When you offer 700 links on a page, many users will be lost.

In short, stackoverflow has a good business model but you will likely not be happy with your SEO results if you attempt to emulate their home page.