Webmasterworld Supporters Forum and old messages

It's normal for old public threads to be moved to supporters forum?

[turk182]

Yesterday I was searching for some information about Google indexing flash movies, and I came to find one thread on websmasterworld about the subject. I don't know if it's or not and old thread, but looking to the thread id I supposed it was ([webmasterworld.com ]).

What a surprise when I tried to open it: I found it was a subscribers only thread.

What I'm asking is: it has been a subcribers only thread from the begginnig or was it moved to the supporters forum later?

Thanks.

[edited by: turk182 at 11:28 am (utc) on July 24, 2003]

[lazerzubb]

You mean this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

;)

[turk182]

Maybe. Then, why does the other one show when I do this search [google.com] in Google?

[Marketing Guy]

Maybe Googlebot subscribes. :?

[turk182]

Maybe Googlebot subscribes. :?

Maybe. The question I make myself is how did Googlebot indexed those pages? They have the NOINDEX tag, there's no cache in Google, but they still appear for queries in Google.

Nevertheless, what concerns me a lot these days is the large number of messages from Supporters Forum in the main page. There are interesting messages in other forums, aren't they?

[oilman]

>>the question I make myself is how did Googlebot indexed those pages?

To quote Brett himself (well paraphrase at any rate :)):
who says what you see and what googlbot sees is the same thing?

[rcjordan]

Heh! Please visit our cloaking forum, if my memory is correct it's one of the oldest forums here --even older than WebmasterWorld.

[Brett_Tabke]

> why does the other one show when I do this search in Google?

Because there are links to that one - hence no description.

Archives work aorund here by adding 10k to the forum number. Thus the forum3/xyz.htm threads become forum 10003/xyz.htm threads with the same number. Hence......Google still indexes the old link.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 12:34 pm (utc) on July 25, 2003]

[turk182]

Thanks for the explanation, Brett.

[turk182]

Another thing Brett. I've discovered why Google still indexes old pages. It's because in Google Knowledge Base there're links pointing to old pages. For example, Will Google index Flash files? [webmasterworld.com] points towards [webmasterworld.com ], an old link.