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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hotel21 on 28 September 2011, 22:40:13
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I look back at old OOF now and again since the change over and see assorted 'elevated' members still online there and remaining there for some time.
Why?
All is the same here and the search functionality is just as good, if not substantially better?
???
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must be nostalgia ;D
but imo must be closed asap..
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I look back at old OOF now and again since the change over and see assorted 'elevated' members still online there and remaining there for some time.
Why?
All is the same here and the search functionality is just as good, if not substantially better?
???
If you do an "advanced search" with google, and put in the web site as www.omegaowners.com it seems to find the items on the old site not the new. Once you've found the item you are looking for it is then fairly easy to get to it on the new site by section/page .... it is then easy to link to it in a post.
That's why you'll have seen my name there a few times tonight .. :)
Old habit of using google advanced will take a while to break.. as it is still much faster than the site search IMHO
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new is new, old is old..
if people continue to use old site on google searches , new site will hardly have higher ranks to be found in searches.. :-\
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new is new, old is old..
if people continue to use old site on google searches , new site will hardly have higher ranks to be found in searches.. :-\
you don't get a choice ... www.omegaowners.com gets you old site answers not new site answers :(
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But if you click the link it passes throught the old site to here?
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I look back at old OOF now and again since the change over and see assorted 'elevated' members still online there and remaining there for some time.
Why?
All is the same here and the search functionality is just as good, if not substantially better?
???
In a nutshell, you could posted embedded videos and edit posts on the old site. ::) ::) ;)
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I look back at old OOF now and again since the change over and see assorted 'elevated' members still online there and remaining there for some time.
Why?
All is the same here and the search functionality is just as good, if not substantially better?
???
In a nutshell, you could posted embedded videos and edit posts on the old site. ::) ::) ;)
Its now read only so, why?
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I did not realise that you could still log on to the old site..... ::) ::) I tried, following the change and said no, had to search for this one..... :-\ :-\ :-\
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But if you click the link it passes throught the old site to here?
Not on a search .... this is google advanced search ...
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
now stick
entwood wheel bearing
in the top box
and
www.omegaowners.com
in the bottom box
and see the result ....... :)
Easier to get you to do it than try to explain !!
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I look back at old OOF now and again since the change over and see assorted 'elevated' members still online there and remaining there for some time.
Why?
All is the same here and the search functionality is just as good, if not substantially better?
???
In a nutshell, you could posted embedded videos and edit posts on the old site. ::) ::) ;)
Its now read only so, why?
I know. I was being sarcastic. ;) ;)
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new is new, old is old..
if people continue to use old site on google searches , new site will hardly have higher ranks to be found in searches.. :-\
you don't get a choice ... www.omegaowners.com gets you old site answers not new site answers :(
if you stop the service ;D no search facility on old one :-X
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new is new, old is old..
if people continue to use old site on google searches , new site will hardly have higher ranks to be found in searches.. :-\
you don't get a choice ... www.omegaowners.com gets you old site answers not new site answers :(
if you stop the service ;D no search facility on old one :-X
Google will still direct you there, though, for a while - at least until it reindexes and resets the ranking for all the dead pages :)
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new is new, old is old..
if people continue to use old site on google searches , new site will hardly have higher ranks to be found in searches.. :-\
you don't get a choice ... www.omegaowners.com gets you old site answers not new site answers :(
if you stop the service ;D no search facility on old one :-X
Google will still direct you there, though, for a while - at least until it reindexes and resets the ranking for all the dead pages :)
yep..but the new one will go higher in rank quickly.. :y
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Old pair of slippers syndrome ? :D ;D
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But if you click the link it passes throught the old site to here?
Not on a search .... this is google advanced search ...
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
now stick
entwood wheel bearing
in the top box
and
www.omegaowners.com
in the bottom box
and see the result ....... :)
Easier to get you to do it than try to explain !!
I have done as you said Nige and I get this page
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1315249664/55
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But if you click the link it passes throught the old site to here?
Not on a search .... this is google advanced search ...
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
now stick
entwood wheel bearing
in the top box
and
www.omegaowners.com
in the bottom box
and see the result ....... :)
Easier to get you to do it than try to explain !!
I have done as you said Nige and I get this page
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1315249664/55
Old site, till you click on home..... :)
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My favourites button took me to the old site, until I deleted it and reset so I come straight here :)
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Same here. ;)
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My favourites button took me to the old site, until I deleted it and reset so I come straight here :)
I hate computers ;D but I did this too ;)
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I often begin to enter omegaowners.com into my address bar and click on the suggested link from my history. Then cue a quick 'oh bugger' and a switch to the new site address. This is on my smartphone and work computer, the browsing histories of which are very tempramental ::)
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Out of interest just what is the new site address?
When I start up my browser it remembers last sites open, and then click New site.
It is almost like playing a computer game and finding a new "secret level" ;D ;D
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There may be some members whose bookmark takes them to the old site every time, whereby if they even touch the site they are shown as logged in for 15 minutes or so. Maybe they are too lazy to update their bookmarks. ::) :-[ :-X
We have a lot of valuable links in Google which currently point to the old site. One of our aims is to provide free information for Omega Owners so when they search in Google it's probably preferable that they don't get a load of dead links, or nothing, as Google start to realise most of the links to omegaowners.com are dead. In the fullness of time Google will have indexed the new site and this will be less of an issue than it is today.
We also have links within the new forum to the old forum - where someone posts a link to a maintenance guide when answering a general help query, for example. Do we want these all to go dead? I don't think so. Not yet, at any rate. Once they are a couple of dozen pages down in the history that might be less of an issue... Of course, in the meanwhile, as soon as a previous member of the Yabb forum clicks on one of these links, they are shown as logged into the Yabb site. ;)
I can see the argument for keeping a read-only yabb site for the moment.
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To create a future proof bookmark to the site, use http://www.omegaowners.com (http://www.omegaowners.com). What you have probably done before is to navigate to the site and select "bookmark this page", which will have saved a Yabb-specific bookmark.
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I must confess, my bookmarks still link to the Yabb site, although I then go straight to here :-[ :-[
I daren't change anything or clear any history at the moment because I'm in the middle of getting things sorted for the new company and will forget what sites I've visited :-[ ::)
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Although I have just edited the bookmark because I remembered I needed to edit another one that went dead 2 years ago :-[ :-[ :D :D
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I have only just this week altered my main OOF bookmark so it takes me to this site, not the old one where I used say "oh bollix" and click the re direct link at the top, which is what it's for surely? Previously I would probably show as logged in to yabb for 15mins 3 or 4 times a day as a result I guess...?
Why does it matter so anyway? ???
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Yeah, the old site needs to stay. And for months/years/indefinately, for the reasons Kevin Wood pointed out.
As of today, we only have 7000 new site pages indexed in Google, compared to the masses of the old site.
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Why does it matter so anyway? ???
YaBB is particularly unkind to poor little Linux servers....