www.petrolheads.com - has it changed?
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I always used the alternate www.petrolheads.com login, primarily because the pistonheads one was firewall blocked for me. Last week I noticed that it had changed, and thought it was the firewall. However, my home computer is also having problems with "petrolheads". Is there any reason?
www.petrolheads.com stopped working for me at work last week too. Try www.track-days.co.uk instead...I'm using that one until internet police block that too.
Edited by rocket on Wednesday 29th July 22:06
rocket said:
www.petrolheads.com stopped working for me at work last week too. Try www.track-days.co.uk instead...I'm using that one until internet police block that too.
Ta. Didn't know about that one.Edited by rocket on Wednesday 29th July 22:06
This is a tricky thing for us as we are getting penalised by Google for having multiple content on different domains, the ad serving is more accurate from one domain and it stops any links to pistonheads pages causing people to be logged out as they switch between the 8 different domains we have for the site. So the long term strategy is to move them all to http://www.pistonheads.com
I have decided to experiment by redirecting petrolheads.com and www.petrolheads.com to www.pistonheads.com to see what affect this had (on both Google and users). The plan is to evaluate the problems over one month and see the affect on Google page rankings, ad serving and the users.
The blocking of www.pistonheads.com is one of the side affects we have considered so I am interested to hear that it is blocked by the firewall. Some companies seem to take a list of top 200 websites and ban them, thus picking up pistonheads and we do still want to have a backdoor method for anyone caught in that problem.
Out of interest does www.pistonheads.co.uk work for you?
I have decided to experiment by redirecting petrolheads.com and www.petrolheads.com to www.pistonheads.com to see what affect this had (on both Google and users). The plan is to evaluate the problems over one month and see the affect on Google page rankings, ad serving and the users.
The blocking of www.pistonheads.com is one of the side affects we have considered so I am interested to hear that it is blocked by the firewall. Some companies seem to take a list of top 200 websites and ban them, thus picking up pistonheads and we do still want to have a backdoor method for anyone caught in that problem.
Out of interest does www.pistonheads.co.uk work for you?
Ah, wasn't aware of that one either. Having tried it, www.pistonheads.co.uk is the best access of the lot. Full access.
www.pistonheads.com will get me access to all the news pages, but from there I cannot link to the forums (www.pistonheads.com/forums). Funnily enough i can access the forums directly on www.pistonheads.com/xforums, although i still get no access to profile details and certain other data using this method.
www.petrolheads.com, as you said, just redirects to www.pistonheads.com
Finally, www.track-days.co.uk gives full access save that all the images in all of the news articles are merely the speed matters logo.
www.pistonheads.com will get me access to all the news pages, but from there I cannot link to the forums (www.pistonheads.com/forums). Funnily enough i can access the forums directly on www.pistonheads.com/xforums, although i still get no access to profile details and certain other data using this method.
www.petrolheads.com, as you said, just redirects to www.pistonheads.com
Finally, www.track-days.co.uk gives full access save that all the images in all of the news articles are merely the speed matters logo.
Edited by CY88 on Thursday 30th July 11:16
www.track-days.co.uk is the only domain where I can get full access at work.
From www.pistonheads.com and www.pistonheads.co.uk I cannot access the Gassing Station.
From www.pistonheads.com and www.pistonheads.co.uk I cannot access the Gassing Station.
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