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I was having some problems with Final Fantasy XIII freezing on my Xbox 360, so I posted a few times to the Xbox Forums at http://forums.xbox.com/. The posts contained a link to a blog post here on ardamis.com that explained my situation in greater detail. I started to wonder if the forums were searcheable in Google, so I checked and found that for the most part, they weren’t.
The regular forum thread URLs contain a nofollow, noindex robots meta tag and end with ‘ShowPost.aspx’, but if you click on the Print button, you’re taken to a URL that ends with ‘PrintPost.aspx’. These printer-friendly pages have no such tag.
If you Google this – site:forums.xbox.com – you’ll see what I mean. There are currently less than a thousand results in Google.
This post is just to test whether I can get a PrintPost.aspx page indexed in Google by linking to it, and whether I can create an inbound link from forums.xbox.com by linking to the printer-friendly version of a thread that contains a link back to a page on ardamis.com.
The URL to the normal thread: http://forums.xbox.com/31685195/ShowPost.aspx
The URL to the printer-friendly page: http://forums.xbox.com/31685195/PrintPost.aspx
The URL to the normal thread: http://forums.xbox.com/31685953/ShowPost.aspx
The URL to the printer-friendly page: http://forums.xbox.com/31685953/PrintPost.aspx
To test, as of 03.17.2010…
Your search – site:forums.xbox.com ardamis – did not match any documents.
Update: 03.18.2010
Both PrintPost.aspx pages are now indexed. Google Webmaster Tools still doesn’t know of any inbound links to my Final Fantasy post, although there are probably a handful by now.
Update: 03.19.2010
The PrintPost.aspx pages are now showing up as the first two results in Google for final fantasy xiii xbox freeze. My post is the third result.
17 March 2010
My Xbox 360 started freezing up last night while playing Final Fantasy XIII. The problem is particular to that game, but it seems like a GPU issue.
12 March 2010
I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials for real-time protection and SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner for periodic scans and second opinions.
8 March 2010
A few Word macros that will replace the symbols commonly found in documents with html entities.
2 March 2010
How to troubleshoot Word 2007 add-in issues and quickly restore functionality via a registry merge file.
26 February 2010
A collection of my favorite themeforest.net WordPress templates, mostly intended for web designers or graphics-related businesses.
21 February 2010
How I fixed what appeared to be a truly bricked iPod touch 2G. It showed zero signs of life: the screen remained blank and the device would not power on.
14 February 2010
A guide to creating a bootable USB drive that can be used to install any version of Windows 7, and a neat trick for extending the 30-day trial to 120 days.
13 February 2010
A fix for that irritating ‘No new pictures or videos were found on this device’ message in Windows when importing images a second time.
9 December 2009
I thought it would be handy to have some direct downloads to the Citrix XenApp web client software for Windows, particularly as the Citrix people can’t settle on a name for their product and the web site changes every 15 minutes.
Citrix Online Plug-in – Version 11.2
Release Date: 9/29/2009
Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2003, & 2008
11 MB
Download [...]
26 November 2009
