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TomoAlien said:
Isn't it possible to add a special autoredirect thingy to the Wiki on the Wikia?

You should also add a big announcement box on top of the Wikia version which would say that the wiki has moved.

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エラー: このwikiでは逆引きできないホストからの投稿を禁止設定となっております。

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First, let's start with the easier to solve problem. This has to do with how Quasar has the various different domain names set up. Unfortunately, instead of just forwarding doomwiki.net and doomwiki.info to doomwiki.org (which is the proper way to handle multiple domains for one website) he mapped them all directly to the website. So you can use this website from any of those 3 domains, complete with 3 different logged in accounts if you wanted, because as far as anything outside of the server (ie your browser) is concerned, it is 3 different websites. And this includes Google. However, they're 3 "different" websites with the exact same content (obviously, since it's the same pages on the same server). In other words, duplicates, and of course as we have seen previously, Google has a method of removing duplicates from its results.

Another coincidence of this is that it temporarily spreads results across all three domains, so some will be from the .org one, while others will be from the .net or .info ones. It basically makes this wiki competition with itself.

And this leads us to another, in this case particularly damning, coincidence, in that having multiple domains mapped to one website is something unscrupulous websites used to do to grab more visitors (ie create one crappy scam website, then get a bunch of different domains with celebrities names in them and map them to that one website, that way you show up in numerous search results and get more visitors). I say "used to" because Google caught wind of this and now has it set up to actively punish websites that do this in their listings. So over time, more and more links to this wiki will disappear from the results as Google's automated processes weeds them out.

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DooMAD said:
Might be an idea to read up on this, since it's fairly new:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Could be one of the changes that's affecting the wiki's rank.

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reboot said:
Interesting, because searching for "doom wiki" on DuckDuckGo brings the new wiki on second place.

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qoncept said:
Since its a wiki rollsbacks are map08 (see what I did there?)

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Gez said:


Don't you mean map07? :p

There's not much tricks and traps in rolling back revisions. It's something that's dead simple to do.

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qoncept said:
He said the biggest problem is the duplicate content. Google doesn't want to list the same thing twice.

I assume wikia isn't going to allow any "new home is doomwiki.org" links and obviously no redirects. Since its a wiki rollsbacks are map08 (see what I did there?)

He also said the only good news is Google will see the wikia site stagnate and start to prefer the updates on the new site.

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Gez said:
Answer: because we cannot close or delete it.

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