LET has broken SEO

Hotmarer

It is enough to add one rule in Cloudflare to redirect from www to non-www, none of the LET administrators has fixed it so far.

Half of the links are indexed with the www.lowendtalk.com domain and the other half with the lowendtalk.com domain (there are still some indexed links with other test subdomains). The canonical tag also comes in several forms and is not set correctly, which makes it useless in this case.

The funny thing is that some users link to the forum without www, and because I'm logged in to domain with www, I have to log in again on the domain without www to see a content.

Example - open these links:
LowEndTalk.com
www.LowEndTalk.com

Here is an example of how this can be easily fixed on the CloudFlare side:

bulbasaur

@jbiloh, would be great if you can make these changes. Bugged me for a while and I even missed a giveaway due to this bug.

What's with your signature though?

suut

www.lowendtalk.com is better.

Hotmarer

@stevewatson301 said: What's with your signature though?

I was not accepted by "the end is nigh" sect, so I started my own club.

Hotmarer

@suut said:
www.lowendtalk.com is best for .com domain.

But the domain name with www is terribly long.

MannDude

Vanilla's search is awful, so I search low end talk via the, site:lowendtalk.com some search term method via my search engine of choice and get staging.lowendtalk.com often in my results.

Annoying.

jbiloh

@stevewatson301 said:
@jbiloh, would be great if you can make these changes. Bugged me for a while and I even missed a giveaway due to this bug.

What's with your signature though?

We are looking into this now.

jbiloh

@MannDude said:
Vanilla's search is awful, so I search low end talk via the, site:lowendtalk.com some search term method via my search engine of choice and get staging.lowendtalk.com often in my results.

Annoying.

We are also looking into the old staging.lowendtalk issue.

AXYZE

Yup, worst thing is that I need to be logged in on both sites, very annoying on my phone where suddenly I have no night mode because I clicked search result in Google which includes "www" and I normally use on without "www.

jbiloh

@AXYZE said:
Yup, worst thing is that I need to be logged in on both sites, very annoying on my phone where suddenly I have no night mode because I clicked search result in Google which includes "www" and I normally use on without "www.

Really appreciate the fyi on this. We will get it fixed.

jar

www is for boomers

AlwaysSkint

TBH, I never even noticed; pulling the URL from the Firefox opening page.
Using a www subdomain drives me crazy! (Amongst other stuff )

DediRock

Good for you. Someone has to take a stand.

@Hotmarer said:

@stevewatson301 said: What's with your signature though?

I was not accepted by "the end is nigh" sect, so I started my own club.

DediRock

Good find

@Hotmarer said:
It is enough to add one rule in Cloudflare to redirect from www to non-www, none of the LET administrators has fixed it so far.

Half of the links are indexed with the www.lowendtalk.com domain and the other half with the lowendtalk.com domain (there are still some indexed links with other test subdomains). The canonical tag also comes in several forms and is not set correctly, which makes it useless in this case.

The funny thing is that some users link to the forum without www, and because I'm logged in to domain with www, I have to log in again on the domain without www to see a content.

Example - open these links:
LowEndTalk.com
www.LowEndTalk.com

Here is an example of how this can be easily fixed on the CloudFlare side:

jbiloh

We will be making these adjustments today. I'll report once finished. Thanks everyone.

jbiloh

We have cleaned up a bunch of stuff just now. Please let me know if we are missing anything.

skorupion

@jbiloh said:
We have cleaned up a bunch of stuff just now. Please let me know if we are missing anything.

bottom of page where there is
Back to Top | LowEndTalk | LowEndBox | Dark Theme Config | Advertise
the lowendtalk is still www.

JabJab

No more www.lowendtalk.com links from e-mails notifications while my session is on just lowendtalk.com? Good.

Also fuck Chrome for hidding the "www." part, took me 3 minutes to figure out why the fuck I am not logged in this tab, but I am on other.

Hotmarer

@skorupion said:

@jbiloh said:
We have cleaned up a bunch of stuff just now. Please let me know if we are missing anything.

bottom of page where there is
Back to Top | LowEndTalk | LowEndBox | Dark Theme Config | Advertise
the lowendtalk is still www.

The same in the header there are still links with www.
"Categories", submenu of "Rules", etc.

jbiloh

@Hotmarer said:

@skorupion said:

@jbiloh said:
We have cleaned up a bunch of stuff just now. Please let me know if we are missing anything.

bottom of page where there is
Back to Top | LowEndTalk | LowEndBox | Dark Theme Config | Advertise
the lowendtalk is still www.

The same in the header there are still links with www.
"Categories", submenu of "Rules", etc.

We are making these changes now.

jbiloh

Footer updated.

What else is there?

Hotmarer

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

eris

@Hotmarer said:
It is enough to add one rule in Cloudflare to redirect from www to non-www, none of the LET administrators has fixed it so far.

Half of the links are indexed with the www.lowendtalk.com domain and the other half with the lowendtalk.com domain (there are still some indexed links with other test subdomains). The canonical tag also comes in several forms and is not set correctly, which makes it useless in this case.

The funny thing is that some users link to the forum without www, and because I'm logged in to domain with www, I have to log in again on the domain without www to see a content.

Example - open these links:
LowEndTalk.com
www.LowEndTalk.com

Here is an example of how this can be easily fixed on the CloudFlare side:

www is for plebs

jbiloh

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

Fixed. How's it look now?

Hotmarer

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

Fixed. How's it look now?

Very handsome ... I means good, perfect.

jbiloh

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

Fixed. How's it look now?

Very handsome ... I means good, perfect.

Anything else we missed?

Hotmarer

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

Fixed. How's it look now?

Very handsome ... I means good, perfect.

Anything else we missed?

I can't see anything else.

jbiloh

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:

@Hotmarer said:

@jbiloh said:
Footer updated.

What else is there?

Header, navbar, menu ... I do not know how to call it.

Fixed. How's it look now?

Very handsome ... I means good, perfect.

Anything else we missed?

I can't see anything else.

Thanks so much for your help.

jbiloh

Any other feedback from anyone else?

skorupion

@jbiloh said:
Any other feedback from anyone else?

in community rules under Commercial IP Related Posts the link still has www.

jbiloh

@skorupion said:

@jbiloh said:
Any other feedback from anyone else?

in community rules under Commercial IP Related Posts the link still has www.

I've cleaned that up plus a few more.