Gary Gygax Q&A threads--where are they?

[grodog]

Whatever redirects were previously in place don't seem to be working now, or Google hasn't updated its indexes with the new URLs.

Where are the Gary Gygax Q&A threads now?

 

[Morrus]

Here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?530-Ask-Me-Anything

 

[grodog]

Thanks Russ. Once I changed my setting to not be the last 2 months, I saw it.

Is it possible for you to create a redirect for the old URLs when they were in multiple threads? When I search on Google like this

https://www.google.com/search?q=gw1+legion+of+gold+grodog+site@enworld.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I get links that point to Q&A Part VI page 21, for example:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?57832-Gary-Gygax-Q-amp-A-Part-IV/page21

but that results in this message:

Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

 

[Morrus]

Not that I'm aware of. Hopefully Google will update its index at some point.

 

[grodog]

If you have access to Google's webmaster tools for ENWorld, you can trigger a re-index of the site content.

In general, though, Google will still have older links in place in its index, and they will be given more precedence in their pagerank algorithm/in their search results, unless you place a 301 redirect in place, which then transfers the old pagerank importance of a page to the new location of the page.

 

[Morrus]

Google automatically gets a sitemap submitted from EN World once a month.

 

[grodog]

Google automatically gets a sitemap submitted from EN World once a month.

That's fine, but you can prompt them to reindex specific pages/URLs, and just because they're receiving the sitemap doesn't mean that they're doing anything to fix the older links from the pre-combined threads. Unless those threads were combined quite recently, perhaps??

 

[Morrus]

That's fine, but you can prompt them to reindex specific pages/URLs, and just because they're receiving the sitemap doesn't mean that they're doing anything to fix the older links from the pre-combined threads. Unless those threads were combined quite recently, perhaps??

Yes, the other day.

 

[grodog]

Ah, well, then I guess we'll have to wait and see. Thanks for the info, Russ!