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You KILLED about 100,000 great Google Links to useful forums. You just made it very difficult for anyone to find useful info when searching for help with problems. You should have considered the Google effect.

Now, If I missed something let me know, but I don’t see how you even considered the Search Engine effect on your move.

I really think you should have moved the old forums to forums_archive then redirected all traffic to the original forums with a permanent redirect (htaccess).

Then create your new forums with support_forums or some other useful name. This would save you thousands and thousand of man hours on support.

Just trying to help.

Brad

I stand corrected. It appears that some are actually redirecting. However, several give this message:

Error
The following errors were encountered
You are not authorized to perform this action

Maybe your way just needs to be tweaked…

Brad

Hi, Brad -

Thank you for your feedback.  We do have 301 redirects in place for docs links/bookmarks, etc.  If there are specific URls that are not working, please do let us know.

I’m going to move this to the General forum as well.

I figured it out..

Any Google link that has “viewreply” is not working (well most of them).

For Example:

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewreply/706904/

This is a Google Search for a support issue on Channel Images. As you can imagine this is important to me also, with our products. It gives an error. I found several hundred by just searching “viewreply” associated with the EE forums.

Hope this helps.

Brad

Thanks, Brad.  I’ll bring this to the team so we can figure out a solution.

This is now fixed.  I went and tested a random sampling and all redirected as they should.

Thanks for the heads up on this.

Presently if a post exists and is requested on the wrong board, you get the error message.  That’s the background for the error - as for the redirect not being in place ahead of time, those redirects can’t be done with .htaccess, and I simply forgot that the viewreply links wouldn’t automatically take you to the right board in the forum module.  Should be fixed now though, including 301’s for bookmarks and search engines.  Please let us know if you encounter any bad permalinks.

Here’s a broken link:

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/154102

That’s the exact link found when you google “expressionengine 2.0 cache” (first result)

If you add a / to the end it works fine, but it’s broken without the /

I’m glad this post helped. This forum is extremely important to all of us!

Brad

That’s interesting that Google has indexed that without the trailing slash.  Fixed, though, thanks.  Which Google site were you searching from, incidentally?  It was not delivered as the top result for me (google.com, midwest US).

That’s weird… just using regular old google.com from east coast US.

Thanks for the fixes. 😊