Feld0 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 This is an idea I had after seeing that merging two topics causes one of the two URL's to 404. Understandably, one of the topics will no longer exist, but why not make it 301-redirect to the one it was merged into? This would improve SEO somewhat, and keep any links that have been made to that topic from breaking post-merge. I think vBSEO did this on a vB forum I used to administer, and it seems like one of those little things that just makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feld0 Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Thought now might be a good time to bring this suggestion up again, seeing as the main theme of IP.Board 3.3.x is SEO improvements. Quite a lot of topic merging takes place on my communities, and it's annoying both to users and search engines when links to them break. Any chance we might see this added in the near future? Brandon once commented on the idea and said there was "real value" in adding it, but I haven't heard anything on the matter since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChiuch Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 This needs to be done. :/ It doesn't make sense for all of the links to the topic pre-merge to suddenly become broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SECTalk.com Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Also suggested this recently. Something very basic that should be included, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gooding Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Our forum members get upset when one of our moderators merges a new topic with an existing topic: When this happens: [*]Someone starts a new topic on a subject with a existing topic already created!!! Grrrrrrr....... :angry: [*]A "new topic alert", which includes a new topic URL, gets fired out to all those members who "follow" that forum. [*]The moderator (correctly) merges the new topic to the already existing topic (because the "new-topic-creating" member couldn't be bothered to see if there was already a relevant topic they could post on) [*]Forum members follow the link in the email alert, which of course goes to a dead end... [*]Irritated forum members send me rude emails!!! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donkerrood Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Yes, the topic-merge function should include a creation of a 301 redirect to the remaining topic! Fully support this feature request! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SECTalk.com Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 This is so basic and could be implemented relatively easily but has been ignored for over a year now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Jenkins Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I completely agree. But not only does this need to be implemented so users don't end up hitting 404s if they've bookmarked the topic in question or received an alert/notification, there also needs to be a way for the user who created the duplicate topic to be informed that it has been merged with another topic. I'm sure I remember Invision Board of many years ago would leave the duplicate topic in the forum, but if you tried to view it you would would automatically be redirected to the topic it had been merged with. This meant that the user who created the second topic would be able to find the topic it had been merged with, and wouldn't presume their topic had in fact been deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13. Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGC Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Bumping this.. Please add this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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