• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Google rankings and old url

Halo Jones

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Hi folks,

Enjoying having this site back but two related comments.

1) google search does not bring back a hit to the forum. I know it is early days but as I keep forgetting to bookmark it would be useful to get the rankings up!

2) would it be possible to register the old woodhaven url and have anyone pointing to it be redirected to here?

Both the above might help bring people back.

Cheers,

H.
 
Oops. Maybe this should have gone in the bugs and feature requests section. Happy to have it moved.
 
Hi Halo

Thanks for your questions

The old URL is still registered to Tom so we cannot use it in any way at all. We have the nearest URL to the old one that we can.

Google Bot is starting to crawl over the site now. When we were developing the new haven, we had a test version running live on line and it took about 2 weeks before google searches would find it (and the spam to start!!)
So far with this site, we have the spam beginning to arrive but we are trapping that fairly effectively and Google will catch up soon.

Search engine optimisation is a black art to most of us so possibly best left to Google to do it for us

In the meantime, the easy answer to browsing for the site is to use bookmarks.

hth

Bob
 
Hi H

When you say Google doesn't return anything, what do you mean? If I Google woodhaven2 I get the page as the top site...

Ref registering the old link, I'm afraid that's not possible. The whole reason for a new site is due to the old one being registered by Tom, but the site behind it is no longer live. We cannot re-register the name until it's ownership expires.

Ideally Tom will be available before then and we can merge the two sites, but until that happens we are effectively a new entity.

Will see what I can do about getting the Google rating up, but I am seeing plenty of bots visiting so I think in time that should be self propagating.

thanks
Mark
 
I didn't realise Tom still had the rights because you get sent straight to that 123 holding site.

I hadn't bookmarked this site as I am away from home just now and using my work laptop!

When you say Google doesn't return anything, what do you mean? If I Google woodhaven2 I get the page as the top site...
Click to expand...

To be fair I had previously only googled woodhaven as I that is what I was used to using.

Hmm. using woodhaven2 I get a twitter account, a youtube video and then american real estate sites! Not sure what is going on there. But you are right the rankings will soon rise.

Cheers,

H
 
On seo, it's important but just do your thang. Good contnet is what google wants, try and play it in the short term and get owned in the long term. SEO if about good content, keyword spam or other crap will have you marked down.
 
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