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http://www.msgpluslive.net/skins/view/601-Agaeti/
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http://www.msgpluslive.nl/skins/view/45-Life-of-Vista/
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http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/276-NameEditor/
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http://msgpluslive.es/scripts/view/142-CrazyText/
... for example. They are used everywhere in old forum threads and on external sites. Also
see [WEB] Various URL/Redirection/SSL/Server Issues (beta section) where stuff like this was already reported over a month ago. While this is something that should already have been working on the release of the new site.
- Redirecting from old domains
- Redirecting old pages to new pages
- Redirecting old skin/script detail pages (variable URLs)
- Software URLs
- Missing RSS Feeds
- Proper error pages
... all fairly basic stuff. I realize people are busy, but this is something that come naturally when moving a site with a lot of traffic. Meanwhile it has been more than a month ago the new site was launched and almost no old link is working. Not just script and skin URLs, even something as basic (and massively visited) as
http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/ will redirect to a non-existing page (at least we
tried to do a redirect in this case) and then ends up on a 404 error and redirects awkwardly to the main page. A messy 404 error which then redirects to the main page leaving a strange aspxerrorpath in the URL is not a solution (IMO). The site is loosing search engine ranking each day, and more important people can't find what they are looking for. Not to mention sites like
http://msgpluslive.dk/ and
http://msgpluslive.it/ still completely showing the old site. Perhaps you have no control over the DNS on these domains? But that is no reason to to redirect people hitting the old server to the new site.
I listed the static URL redirects in
a Excel sheet (be sure to read the notes in the beta thread though)... redirecting the scripts and skins URLs is a small script of a couple of lines... a proper 404 error isn't consuming days of time either.
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