[Solved][manjaro forum] Can not access topic found in google searches

[lavigne958]

Hello, when I search some terms on google using the following keyword ‘manjarolinux’, most of the results are pointing to this forum, and 99% of the links I clicked on end-up on a page that says:
’ Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.’

Some of the pages could be accessed using the ‘cache’ option provided by google so I could get some answers to problems I had but not all.

When I try to look for the same keywords on the forum itself using the search bar I do not find the results that are provided by google, is it supposed to be this way ?

are those pages from an old forum ? Do I need first to complete some steps in the forum to access these pages ?

Thank you for your help, I hope It helps the forum administrators to maintain good visibility on internet.

Here is a screenshot of the page I find all the time

[Aragorn]

Welcome to the new Manjaro Forum

[4_5888669972661536578] Fellow Manjaro users, Our forums malfunctioned and all of the uploaded images were lost. We made an effort to recover the lost files, but the backups and archives were affected as well. We don’t yet know the root cause for sure, but our service provider speculated it might have been due to a botched update. The missing files left the forum in a rather unpleasant state, and it could not be cleaned to a satisfactory condition. Therefore we decided to start from scratch …

[Strit]

Please read the welcome post: Welcome to the new Manjaro Forum

If you put archived. in front of the URL you will get it.

[Ben]

The question is - will google ALWAYS find the old url, or will it start updating? I’m guessing that’s outdated/historical information from previous scrapes.

[Soong]

You need put archived. into the URL.
There is a example:
It doesn’t works
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/options-for-nvidia-optimus-graphics/75185
It works
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/options-for-nvidia-optimus-graphics/75185

[lavigne958]

Thank you everyone, I apologize I found the rules/welcome topic and I did not expect to find the answer in it ( I expected to find some general forum rules). My bad.

If this helps: I found some pages using google cache method (like I said) it is perhaps worth checking our with them if you could recover some information.

Thank you for you help.

[Shjim]

True… most not think of that plus most don’t like to read they want feeding

[papajoke]

Google is very fast, in a few days all the old pages (404) will no longer referenced in the engine

[cscs]

No … not much of a question … because thats not how search engines work.

Even if it were - then it would be an issue to take up with your search provider.