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SEO: How to kill your traffic?

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Just got an email from Shaner who runs Club4AC for over 2 years now. Club4AC is dead, long live www.ToyotaPowered.com!

Well, changing your domainname isn't that bad if it is an improvement above the old name. I understand why he did it: he will always be blamed his site's success is drifting along the success of the bigger brother Club4AG and it is limiting to the cars with a 4AC engine only, just like AEU86 is limiting to the AE86 only.

Currently he actually implemented a redirection of the old content to the new domain with a 301 HTTP header (Moved Permanently). This is indeed the correct way to do, however on the new domain we get redirected to IP.board instead of the good old phpbb (behind /old/ ). Of course we get an IP.board error: "Sorry, the link that brought you to this page seems to be out of date or broken." which will cause Google (and other search engines) to end up on the same page for every already indexed page. They will mark the content duplicate and remove the old pages from the index.

Also the second page I requested ended up in a site overlay which caused me to click away from the site: IMO people doing site overlays should not deserve traffic!


Banpeis links

AE86 related:
AEU86 dot ORG: European website/forum for AE86 owners.
AE86.nl: Dutch website with AE86 info.
Racer86's weblog: Another Minkara fan!
Impulse
Club4AG: US website/forum for 4AGE owners.

Carina related:
Revolverdrift: Malaysian blog maintained by gsrturbo featuring an AA63 Carina.
Mikko K's GT-T conversion: Finish guy owning a TA60 coupe converted to TA63.
Original GT-T conversion: This is the page of the previous owner of Mikko K's car and did actual conversion.
????: Japanese blog by Shingo. Can't read a thing, but I do see some really nice pics there!
Carina and Corona catalogues: Japanese site with all Carina and Corona catalogues scanned!

JDM news and blogs:
auto-otaku.com: blog about JDM cars. (for otakus who love cars!)
Tune86: FT-86 concept news/forum
Hashiriya Exports
Sideways.cz
FakeWheels.com
Don's Gallery: JDM 80s and 90s car shop

Other:
Model Direct: sells (almost) all Tamiya models
Rinkya: Order anything from Auctions.yahoo.co.jp!