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Google and typophile
Posted by spiral in
14 Jun 2012 — 12:03am
14 Jun 2012 — 12:03am
Is it just me or is Google no longer indexing the forums properly? The search results I get are much less than usual, and when I restrict my search to typophile.com, I get results from weird subdomains such as mail.www.typophile.com, dev.typophile.com, rainbowsnot.typophile.com or www.sports3.blog.typophile.com
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14 Jun 2012 — 4:13pm
Yes, it’s a problem at least since the last redesign (http://typophile.com/node/91007?page=5#comment-510822) and it’s getting worse with time.
14 Jun 2012 — 4:29pm
Try Bing.
15 Jun 2012 — 1:26am
Well, yes, of course. Or DuckDuckGo (http://duckduckgo.com) for that matter.
But that wouldn't really solve the problem, would it?
15 Jun 2012 — 8:10am
The forum isn't indexing the forum properly, so what’s the biggie?
15 Jun 2012 — 10:36am
In the short run the inability to access and refer to the treasure trove of knowledge of past threads.
In the medium run the drastic reduction of visitors and new non-spammers, non-type-id-board users (thus of Typophile’s appeal to possible advertisers).
In the long run, the irrelevance of Typophile.
17 Jun 2012 — 11:02am
And I found a new one: http://joesbirthdaywasyesterdaynottoday.typophile.com
Seriously.
And, Bing should’ve updated its indexes, because now it cannot find anything too.
17 Jun 2012 — 12:09pm
http://youcantypeanythinghere.typophile.com/
17 Jun 2012 — 12:34pm
Interesting. Not relieving, but interesting.
21 Jun 2012 — 4:09am
It is a shame that the wealth of knowledge in typophile cannot be fully searched I hope this gets corrected soon,
21 Jun 2012 — 5:18am
Is this known to whoever runs typophile?
21 Jun 2012 — 5:32am
Yes.
22 Jun 2012 — 3:11am
Regarding the subdomains:
The server is not set up properly; this nonsense shouldn’t happen. The trigger for two of the most widespread pseudo-subdomains is this thread:
http://typophile.com/node/15895
22 Jun 2012 — 8:14am
Yahoo search seems to be (currently) working to some extent.
22 Jun 2012 — 8:45am
There is a type forum where the servers actually work pretty well.
22 Jun 2012 — 11:39am
... which is nice, but does not really address the problem with the existing information on typophile.com
25 Jun 2012 — 8:02pm
So the weird urls are because there is an open wildcard dns entry on typophile.com (http://ma.tt/2003/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/ if you geek out on internet routing and dns, not jut type ;). What is worrisome is that they don't have a canonical url setup so if google indexes any other weird domains then they will be seen as duplicate content which will tank rankings.
This shouldn't be difficult to fix. If a site admin sees this feel free to get in touch.
25 Jun 2012 — 11:19pm
http://wecanalwayshope.typophile.com/
6 Jul 2012 — 10:03am
http://helloisanybodyhome.typophile.com