DT125R ARCHIVE

Seiki wrote:

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Taking each thread one by one will never work, lots of good info hidden amongst lots of crap. Was really hoping it could be moved in at least sections but understand that may be too much to ask.

damn

Project threads, pics etc are good to read for a while but when you need mechanical info and it's just not there, the forum becomes useless.

Is there any way to change that into a Home Page? Leading to possibly here? Just like the original homepage for here . It had a few pics and some info about de-restricting.

The extras seem so much sweeter over there. Chat box etc built in, better search engine thing.. but fcuk me the thought of starting again with half the info is scary.

This place will never close completely, too much info. The most that would happen is I make it all private and nobody can see anything but a link to a new site. But again we'd need a substantial amount of info copied across.

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I can make a homepage yes with info on derestricting, etc with a link to the forum.

I agree its a big task. If your game then ill get started started, purchase the domain and get copying stickies over. But ill wait on your say so. 

 

All you want to do is to create a homepage like said. Then have a link to the forum from there. That way you wouldnt need to transfer everything over.

Creating just a landing page might not help much in terms of indexing the threads on here so they start to appear in search engines. I've never had much joy unless the landing page has lots of information on it and is on the same domain as the threads its linking to. You would probably be better creating a new home on the new domain and have quite a few extra pages on the domain with DT technical information so its at least got information and keywords the search engines will pick up on. Then stick the forum link on there with maybe links to each individual category. But just sticking one link to the forum and hoping all the threads will be indexed is a long shot in this day and age without a search engine optimisation strategy in place.

Alternatively, you could find someone who knows a bit more about websites and ask them to set up a a REDIRECT, so all the old threads would now be seen as say www.dtr125r.com/forum/easier-way-to-access-this-site-hope-admin-doesnt-mind/.

This way would work better for indexing with the search engines if work was put in to get it in the search engines.

I can show you what I mean as a sort of an example.

We took a new product on called Oscar Vitalmax Juicer. Our website is optimised for the word juicer but after 3 months of listing this new product we were at position 74 on google out of 25,000.

So I bought the domain www.oscarvitalmax.co.uk and created a website for it, linking to the specific product on our website www.juiceland.co.uk

So if you now type in Oscar Vitalmax Juicer into google, you will see our website at number 2 and the new domain i created at number 4.

Point being, this strategy can work across different domains but its not simply a matter of sticking it up and hope, you have to put legwork in to get links from relative websites to your domain to get it found in the search engines.

As a disclaimer, my experience is in a competitive keyword market so may not apply to something more niche as DT125 and it might work based on the fact its not such a popular search terms, so not a lot of competition.

Sounds good to me. Does save a lot of trouble.

What was the original domain name, you should be able to view it waybackmachine

Here you go, admin panel as I see minus personal info