What happened to this site
I noticed as soon as the board was changed over that we went form having anywhere from 35 to 75 anonymous (unregistered) users at any given time down to 4 to 9 anonymous users at most.
Did something change that made this place harder to find? I was just wondering why such a sharp drop in such a short span of time. The only difference I have seen is the new forum. Is it limiting unregistered viewers somehow?
I was going to post the same thing at the beginning of this week scotty, I have never seen as few 'unregistered' users browsing the forum since the changes.......at first i put it down to the fact there was 2 sites running, but now, im not sure why!
It may be that the Google cache hasn't updated for the new site. When people search for stuff on Google, they're probably being given links to threads in the old forum which don't work anymore. So when they click it, they see a message saying that the board is no longer in use, so they go back and try another website.
I've actually noticed the same thing. Wondering if people are not noticing the redirect address.
Maybe you could turn it into a link instead of having it blend in with rest of the text?
I'll bet you're right. The world's search bots have not probably scanned this site thoroughly yet. Most of the anonymous users are probably from linked searches.Good idea about the link though. Eddie can't change it but I'll take a look at it.
I tried but the header page will not take any html . Oh well
Leave it to bob to have all the answers to life's great questions... and the mundane ones as well.Thanks, I was just wondering.
It probably isn't accepting the html because html has always been turned off on the forums. Can you use UBB code?
No, the header won't accept anything.
Thats annoying. If you were able to use html, you could probably put in a little script to automatically redirect people here.Ah well, suppose nothing more can be done.
There is actually a HTML Includes section where script is placed. This and the old site has a script running that does the Ad's and Intellitext.Do you know how to write one that would automatically redirect people to this forum?At the moment there are 7 anonymous users looking at the old site. I don't know what they can see though. I closed all forums so that they are not visible to guests.Here's what's in there now.... width=468 height=60 border=0 alt="Click Here">
I have a code that should work, but you have to put it between the and markers. I don't know if you have access to that part of the code.Code:HERE is an example.
I noticed the same problem when A2A things show up on Google, but making the link clickable won't help much, since the link is generic, and it won't take you to the post you're looking for. With the clues you get from the Google result you could do a search on this site, but most people wouldn't.
I tried your script unfortunately the file is write protected.
It wouldn't do much good anyway, if it just brings you to the top level. People want to see the actual post that the search result refers to.
Well its the best that I could think of. But unless you are willing to modify each page to redirect to its corresponding page here, its the best that could be done. The script allows for a delay, so we could write a short bit of information saying that the forum has been moved and that they should try to search again when they are redirected to the new forum.But since we can't implement the script into the pages anyway, we'll either have to think of something new or just wait for the Google-bot to return for a good, thorough search.
Fantastic, I'm currently in the middle of an essay on the negative effects of the introduction of a perpetual motion device into our current society. God, if only I put half as much thought into doing my portfolio, I would kick ass!
Honestly, I seem to have lost almost all interest in it. And once that happens, I'm fucked!
And you'd think that banning me would help, but recently there has been almost no activity on A2A but I'm still finding distractions. I only come here for a few seconds every hour or two to find that nobody has posted anything and I go read Wikipedia or howstuffworks.com and I become completely involved in them. And anyway, banning me will do nothing. I was banned before and still found my way here without any problems. I just couldn't log in on this account so I created a different one. I've no idea what the name was tho, it was so long ago.And as for the failure thing: I went to see a psychologist last week for an assessment and he was amazed at how little I am affected by pressure or the danger of consequences.
