Shoutbox

As the title says: old links to scripts and skin still don't redirect to the proper pages. They still give a 404 and redirect to http://www.msgplus.net/Home?aspxerrorpath=/scripts/view/blahblah/.

And I suspect other old links still don't redirect properly either (like the main download page link, which is not unimportant I'd say)...

This is getting extremely annoying, especially after the site has been online already for a while (long enough for rankings to have dropped drastically already because the 404-error and links removed because they don't redirect properly).

A simple short redirect script to check such 'faulty' links against a small DB of old links should be sufficient for now and not hard to make, as long as it works.

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Originally posted by Sunshine
Old links to scripts and skins where (page URL, example)? Which other old links (example)?

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wha????
All old links....
If you want an example than ask for a server log of all the 404 errors it has generated.

Old links to scripts and skins where (page URL, example)? Which other old links (example)?

- http://www.msgpluslive.net/skins/view/601-Agaeti/
- http://www.msgpluslive.nl/skins/view/45-Life-of-Vista/
- http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/276-NameEditor/
- 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.