Google search for Cubase topics no longer works. One of my goto methods of answering a CUbase query is to go to google and enter a Cubase question. Often google displays Cubase threads. If you click on one of these threads (and there are hundreds of tohusands of them) you were previously directed to the thread. Now your not. Just some useless page
Sorry guys, I am not enjoying the new site, willing to give it time, but I feel like its isolating everyone and does not deliver. Sense of community is currently shattered for me
Yes. This is extremely annoying! And to make it worse, you can actually still see the first few lines of the text in the google search window, but you canât get to the actual post, even if youâre already logged in to the forums before you do this.
Maybe. But google search engine adopt to the rate of changes in the content for often it should re-index. Since the old forum was quite active it was scanned frequently so it should have been scanned many times by now. Itâs more likely a technical issue. A robot hint somewhere maybe.
Itâs a SEO issue until the forum is established more? Maybe we have to revert to this old skool trick until Google catches on the new forum:
site:https://forums.steinberg.net ⌠search for cubase words
Weâve done our best to redirect all the old links through to the migrated topics here on Discourse. Could you let me know what you searched for and Iâll make sure we fix it.
Howling Wolfâs link also does not work here, it sends me to some generic page (unless that is what he meant). I thought the old site was going to go read only?
I have searched for about 25 or so topics using Google and I just get the main page of this site. I did not keep a written record of my search terms. Here is an example G search that does not lead to the threads expression maps not working - Google Search
So far, to me the site feels very obscure. I feel no sense of community. I canât see if my friends have posted (no I donât want to âfollowâ everyone there are too many people and some might only post every few months. I get no general overview of how the community is thinking. I feel like I am in a cupboard.
It wasnât meant to be a link. You precede your search with âsite:â and then the URL and all the searches are limited to show hits from that domain. same thing when you search for something and you only want to read PDF files, you type filetype:pdf.
Well yes that does work but it also excludes other posts from say GearSluts or VI forums. its a pain in the butt to type in as well. This new forum is proving to be a horrible experience so far.
You can save a bookmark with a google page where you just enter âsite:forums.steinberg.netâ and hit enter so thatâs part of the page. Then when you invoke the bookmark the site part is already there.
You can only read one result at a time anyway.
Eventually it will go away. Be a little pragmatic about it?
Youâre right that clicking on various results in âexpression maps not working site:www.steinberg.netâ in Google gives mixed results with some posts redirecting correctly and some not. (8 out of 10 of the first page of results work OK)
Iâve had some success looking at the old forum entries using the cached search results (available via the little arrow next to the search result link). While the formatting looks lousy, the text is quite legible.
@Ben_at_Steinberg Are you sure everything from the old forums made it to the new forums and got indexed properly?
And searching the new forums just for keywords UR44 USB 3 like this: https://forums.steinberg.net/search?q=UR44%20USB%203
did not return either of these old forum pages that were returned by the google search.
Iâm pleased to say that the missing forum posts from the initial migration have been picked up and successfully migrated. The redirections from the old URLs are now in place. It looks like some of the search engine results have dropped the old URLs, but hopefully the migrated content on here will be indexed and climb back up the search results in due course.
