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A very old bug I bothered to report months ago (but probably existed since the beginning of etf2l) that I never saw getting any attention:

Fails on google: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=OpenPlugin+site:etf2l.org
Works ‘somewhat’ on bing: http://bing.com/search?q=OpenPlugin+site:etf2l.org

Nothing bad in http://etf2l.org/robots.txt, anyone knows why google fails to index etf2l’s main forums?

The reason I posted this publicly is mostly to see if other people can figure this out to get it fixed faster :)

Quoted from Interloper

All the thread pages on the forum have a rel=’canonical’ link tag in the header that’s set to http://etf2l.org/forum/.

That tells google to consider all the thread pages to be the same as the forum root (which is indexed), and to consider the forum root to be the authoritative version of those pages, so to only pay attention to the forum root.

It’s only a directive and google doesn’t always follow it, but it might be the problem.

We have a winner https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394 :)

EDIT:

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I appreciate that you’d register just to help out, thanks.

Quoted from Casual

I appreciate that you’d register just to help out, thanks.

np, makes a change from doing SEO for evil ;)

My advice would be to just get rid of it and not worry about whether there are a few different ways to access some thread pages. It really make no difference for a non-commercial site.