UK ONLY Domain Names For Sale

[nameholic]

Can guests see the FORUM Section of ...UK ONLY Domain Names For Sale

Links to * active *
UK domain name auctions on Acorn Auctions, DomainLore, Ebay, Sedo Etc.

Premium Domain names for sale
Fixed Price Domain Names For Sale
UK Websites For Sale

Do you think it would help sales if Guests / End users saw what was on offer
and may even encorage New Memership ?

Ian

 

[bensd]

You have to login to see the 'for sale' forums

 

[Edwin]

You have to login to see the 'for sale' forums

Which is by design as people didn't/don't want the search engine spiders to index/archive sales threads.

 

[Admin]

The domains sold here are between us domainers and therefore, mostly at "trade" prices. If Google etc. could see the sales threads, I would have to endlessly hide or remove threads to allow people to sell on at end-user prices.

The forum is very well indexed and has high traffic so anyone looking for domains should be able to find us.

You can help by spreading the word

Admin

 

[nameholic]

Can guests see the FORUM Section of ...UK ONLY Domain Names For Sale

Links to * active *
UK domain name auctions on Acorn Auctions, DomainLore, Ebay, Sedo Etc.

It was only that i was going to add/update a domain on the auction section of
...UK ONLY Domain Names For Sale and was unable to see that section as i was timed out
hence question ? Thanks for reply Bensd. no members have to log in

I understand Edwen
Which is by design as people didn't/don't want the search engine spiders to index/archive sales threads ( sorry I hadent seen that thread on here )

I just thought it may have been an idea/posable to have the section where you are given pemition to enter you Domain name in Links to * active *
UK domain name auctions on : Acorn Auctions, DomainLore, Ebay, Sedo Etc
Seen by non members/Guests

NOT the rest of that Sales Section that is for members only

 

[Nick11380]

The domains sold here are between us domainers and therefore, mostly at "trade" prices. If Google etc. could see the sales threads, I would have to endlessly hide or remove threads to allow people to sell on at end-user prices.

The forum is very well indexed and has high traffic so anyone looking for domains should be able to find us.

You can help by spreading the word

Admin

For usability reasons I would probably just block off all the forum directories that you don't want indexed in robots.txt. Or better yet <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> across all of the pages in those particular forums (or if you don't trust Google, do both).

But at least this solution would allow users to find the content without logging in and may give them a better reason to sign up (but appreciate the current situation may work better for incenting sign ups).

 

[nameholic]

For usability reasons I would probably just block off all the forum directories that you don't want indexed in robots.txt. Or better yet <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> across all of the pages in those particular forums (or if you don't trust Google, do both).

But at least this solution would allow users to find the content without logging in and may give them a better reason to sign up (but appreciate the current situation may work better for incenting sign ups).

Thanks Nick
You have lost me on <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> etc

When i posted i didn't know the tec isues and was just looking for a way to promote the auction side ie: Links to * active * .UK domain name auctions on Acorn Auctions, DomainLore, Ebay etc
whitch admin kindly let us list in the header of the auction thread for free

Also wanted the Acorn Auction for .co.uk & .org.uk Sales To have a better position ? not just on this site but in the market place
but i don't know how this can be done ??

 

[Edwin]

There are plenty of rogue bots that don't obey robots.txt. If you don't want something indexed, it HAS to be behind a username/password.

 

[Nick11380]

There are plenty of rogue bots that don't obey robots.txt. If you don't want something indexed, it HAS to be behind a username/password.

If you block robots and use noindex meta tags you can be pretty certain your page won't pop up in any of the major engines, you can also nofollow any links pointing to the forum that are under your control - although it's not impossible that something won't get indexed. You could even go further and iframe the content from a blocked website. However at least with Google you can also remove URLs in Webmaster Tools.

Imo the potential benefits to the user and community might outweigh the odd chance that a page gets indexed in a minor engine.

 

[Edwin]

If you block robots and use noindex meta tags you can be pretty certain your page won't pop up in any of the major engines, you can also nofollow any links pointing to the forum that are under your control - although it's not impossible that something won't get indexed. You could even go further and iframe the content from a blocked website. However at least with Google you can also remove URLs in Webmaster Tools.

Not true.

The spambots will harvest the content, and reproduce it on splogs and then it will get spidered by Google etc. and show up. In other words, even if the original "source" is left alone by well-behaved search engines, the various scraper sites will see to it that the content ends up getting indexed anyway - just from elsewhere on the web.

 

[Nick11380]

Not true.

The spambots will harvest the content, and reproduce it on splogs and then it will get spidered by Google etc. and show up. In other words, even if the original "source" is left alone by well-behaved search engines, the various scraper sites will see to it that the content ends up getting indexed anyway - just from elsewhere on the web.

I wasn't aware that spambots ever scraped forum posts? I know it's commonplace amongst blogs but I've never seen it with forum posts - I could just be looking in the wrong places.

Although if you were able to iframe the content it wouldn't be possible to scrape, but interested to learn more if I'm wrong! I also don't know how scraper bots work, but I would imagine they find content to scrape by looking at indexed results - again, could be wrong!

 

[Edwin]

iframing something makes no difference at all, just means you're serving it up from site Y instead of site X.

 

[Nick11380]

iframing something makes no difference at all, just means you're serving it up from site Y instead of site X.

Ah, well robots certainly only read <iframe src="thesource.php" /> as opposed to the actual content being served, I would imagine the same applies to scrapers.

I don't see any point in blocking off a forum to users unless it serves a purpose (beyond content being indexed) - if you follow best practices i.e. noindex metas, robots blocked, URLs removed in WMT, nofollow links - then there really shouldn't be anything to worry about. If content does get indexed after doing all of that I would be amazed (and would love to see an example of this happening) - and afaik you can iframe content and noindex, block the source to be doubly sure!

 

[nameholic]

Imo the potential benefits to the user and community might outweigh the odd chance that a page gets indexed in a minor engine.

Thanks.

There must be a place on this Forum for end users to see/find domains for sale

For members listing there names on auction sites to be seen by end users

thay are listed there to cash them in after trying in the offers/premium/etc sale threads for acorn members to view first

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ADMIN.
The domains sold here are between us domainers and therefore, mostly at "trade" prices. If Google etc. could see the sales threads, I would have to endlessly hide or remove threads to allow people to sell on at end-user prices.

The forum is very well indexed and has high traffic so anyone looking for domains should be able to find us.

You can help by spreading the word
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Acorn is very well indexed and has high traffic so anyone looking for domains should be able to find us.
this is a very good place to be!