It appears that you can't get any Google results at all even if you do a site search on the forum.
But you can find results from "archive.nes.science".
Seems that DuckDuckGo does have results.
This forum is invisible to Google
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This forum is invisible to Google
Last edited by Dwedit on Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: This forum is invisible to Google
The only thing we could do about that is move the TLD back to nesdev.com. Google prefers the oldest apparent-mirror of something to prevent pagerank cheating.
... also, I can't exactly reproduce? if I search google for "site:forums.nesdev.org gtmp3" that works for me
... also, I can't exactly reproduce? if I search google for "site:forums.nesdev.org gtmp3" that works for me
Re: This forum is invisible to Google
I can't reproduce this, either. I also use Google to search for stuff on the forums pretty frequently and the only difficulty I've encountered is that Google prefers the mirrors because they're older than the .org domain. Otherwise, it works.
Re: This forum is invisible to Google
I could rebuild the XHTML files for archive.nes.science with canonical links so that Googlebot understands the intent of the duplicate pages. They would take this form:
EDIT: I've written the script to add the canonical link. The 7z file is 40 MiB.
EDIT: I got in touch with cppchriscpp, who runs archive.nes.science, and am sending the update.
EDIT: cppchriscpp received the update and has applied it. Let's see if rel="canonical" helps redirect link reputation where it belongs.
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<link rel="canonical" href="https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=99999"/>
EDIT: I got in touch with cppchriscpp, who runs archive.nes.science, and am sending the update.
EDIT: cppchriscpp received the update and has applied it. Let's see if rel="canonical" helps redirect link reputation where it belongs.
Re: This forum is invisible to Google
I was looking for some specific thread I created earlier, using the search 'site:forums.nesdev.org legend of kage input lag tester'. Duckduckgo, Bing, and Yandex will find the topic, Google does not.
Maybe Google somehow hasn't crawled it while all the other search engines have?
Maybe Google somehow hasn't crawled it while all the other search engines have?
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Re: This forum is invisible to Google
There are three possibilities:
In my experience, DuckDuckGo's results resemble Bing's, making me think DDG syndicates Bing results. So it'd also be a good idea to keep an eye on Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Googlebot hasn't yet had a chance to observe the addition of <link rel="canonical"> to archive.nes.science three and a half days ago.
- There was some error in the pages served with <link rel="canonical">.
- Google Search is imposing some other penalty.
In my experience, DuckDuckGo's results resemble Bing's, making me think DDG syndicates Bing results. So it'd also be a good idea to keep an eye on Bing Webmaster Tools.
Re: This forum is invisible to Google
(Yep, DuckDuckGo uses Bing and other sources: DuckDuckGo Help Pages - Results Sources )