Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

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Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

Post by dandv » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:11 pm

Looks like the two URLs point to the same content, but it would be less confusing and an SEO advantage to redirect one to the other.

I.e. going to newsgroup.xnview.com should to redirect the user to forum.xnview.com.

I work at Google and I'm suggesting this because it would improve search rankings as well.
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Re: Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

Post by XnTriq » Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:45 pm

Thank you for the heads-up, Dan!
XnTriq ([url=http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=82783#p82783]Forum search function bug?[/url]) wrote:As it turns out, Google is indexing pages from newsgroup.xnview.com & forum.xnview.com separately, and the sitesearch parameter doesn't accept multiple domains as input :|

As a workaround, I added...
  • <Param name="domains" value="newsgroup.xnview.com;forum.xnview.com"/>
... which puts radio buttons for the newsgroup and the forum sub-domain in Google's search form.
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Re: Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

Post by XnTriq » Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:00 am

Pierre has reactivated URL forwarding (-:
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Re: Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

Post by Drahken » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:52 pm

Odd, since I'm currently ON newsgroup.xnview. (Hell, this thread is the first I've become aware that forum.xnview even exists.)

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Re: Redirect newsgroup.xnview.com to forum.xnview.com

Post by XnTriq » Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:15 am

Drahken wrote:Odd, since I'm currently ON newsgroup.xnview.
Hi, Drahken. forum.xnview.com is redirected to newsgroup.xnview.com (not the other way around).
XnTriq wrote:Up until the phpBB update of 2009, …
… forum.xnview.com was redirected to newsgroup.xnview.com via frame forwarding:

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<html>
<head>
<title>http://forum.xnview.com/</title>
<meta name="generator" content="ORT - Ovh Redirect Technology">
<meta name="url" content="newsgroup.xnview.com">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,0" frameborder="no" border="0">
<frame name="ORT" src="http://newsgroup.xnview.com/">
<frame name="NONE" src="" scrolling="no" noresize>
<noframes>
<body><a href="http://newsgroup.xnview.com/">Click here</a><hr></body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
OVH: How to create a free web redirection?
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