Thanks [mention]gregster[/mention], hopefully this works well enough :D

At least, the Google Bot is active on the forums right now. Currently reading a topic in AHK v1 help (hopefully more than one ;) ), before in AHK v2 help and the Index page. Haven't seen this for a while. Edit: Now also in 'Bug Reports'...

Tank has been crazy busy. I just went ahead and tweaked our WAF, hopefully the change I made helps. We shall see in the next few days. :think:

still not fixed

We are currently having issues with our bot blocking setup. So our docs are no longer being indexed by Google at the moment...

That being said, our docs does have search functionality.

oh ok never mind - found it, thanks

Sorry boiler, I'm not getting it - page 1 of what thread? (I haven't been here in a really long time so I'm kind of out of touch at the moment..)

[mention]scriptor2016[/mention] — See (page 1 of) this thread, where your post was moved from “Ask for Help (v2)”.

Hi everyone

Long, long time.

Playing around with AHK again , it'll take some time to become re-aquainted :)


I'm searching for topics as I always did by typing in something like the following into a google search:


"AHK clear an edit control"


but nothing shows up in Google's search engine results anymore. It's just all reddit, stackoverflow, gtihub, etc but any topic here in the forums is not showing in google.

Is there something I'm unaware of as to why?

thanks..

www.ahkscript.org is still not reachable or is not redirected to autohotkey.com, i.e. some old links are currently broken. Please fix it too.

[mention]tank[/mention] Okay, I've manage to DNS/Domain level verify ownership for Google Search Console. Check your messages. :+1:

Looks like 403 errors to me!

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Actually upon further investigation it seems to be related to the new servers. The server verification fails now

Agree.

But is there any improvement yet? I don't think so.

Yeah, that's recent enough...

According to the ACP, [c]Google [Bot][/c]'s last activity was [c]Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:12 pm[/c]... :think:

So I guess that one way of knowing whether the Google search engine bot is back is to check the "Registered users:" line at the bottom of the "Board Index" screen.
Bing was there a second ago
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but has anyone seen the Google Bot?

Assuming tank's fix was successful, it may take several weeks for the pages to reappear in the Google search index. I would recommend checking the Google Search Console from time to time to see if the pages are being indexed correctly. Optionally, indexing can also be "forced" there.

Still no luck, no issue with other search engines- here's a sample of other SEs out of the box:
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Yahoo offers cached result:
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Asfp%2Cm%3Asb-top&p=AHK+GuiFromHwnd
Mojeek and Bing might show "More Results" after the hit:
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=AHK%20GuiFromHwnd
https://duckduckgo.com/?va=c&t=hf&q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd&ia=web
Brave is, like DuckDuckGo very readable:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd&source=web
https://duckduckgo.com/?va=c&t=hf&q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd&ia=web
Can't turn off the LH sidebar in Desktop browser for Dogpile:
https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd&sc=bYKm4QQpObb110
These and others may offer more behind the hood:
https://www.metacrawler.com/serp?q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd&sc=AITFL6nkqYY900+
https://www.info.com/serp?q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd
https://www.hotbot.com/web?q=AHK+GuiFromHwnd
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[quote=joedf post_id=558377 time=1707422047 user_id=55]
Yeah, looks like the custom search engine I had setup is also broken...
https://www.autohotkey.com/search/?q=sysget
[/quote]I had made some rather aggressive bot prevention rules in cloudflare. I just eased them a bit.