[Petition]: Database Links vs Footer Links

[quote=The_Nameless_Bard]/signed[/quote]

[quote=Xenasis]/[[singed]] (The jungling variety)[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]Thanks for the support guys, keep it up :)[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]pls... I feel obliged to bump this two years later. [IMG]http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h380/thejhoijhoi/links.png[/IMG][/quote]

[quote=astrolia]The footer links probably only exist for SEO reasons. If you Google for "Morgana guides" in example, [url=http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/morgana-guide]this[/url] is the first result, and [url=http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/morgana-16]this[/url] is nowhere on the first page. So they're just pages with [i]only[/i] guides displayed, left up in order to draw in more traffic through search. They're definitely pointless, but only if you're a regular Mobafire user who visits through the main page. I kind of doubt Matt would be interested in removing pages that give him top spots on Google for multiple short tail search terms. Edit: Lol, on that note, the guide pages seem to be broken.[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]Why can't the pages be turned around and made to go to the same page? I don't know much about SEO, but if the page says "Morgana Guide Build" on it enough times, isn't that good enough? Also, I noticed it was broken too, but assumed they were fiddling around with the footer to update it for elophant, so didn't mention it.[/quote]

[quote=astrolia]Idk if a 301 redirect would work in this situation because the content on the page you'd be redirecting people to (champ wiki page) has different content than the /champ-guide/ page. "mobafire.com/league-of-legends/morgana-guide" is also a much SEO friendlier url anyway.[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]Yeah, so what I said. Instead of the "champion/morgana-16", the page links to "morgana-guide", but main page would be the current morgana-16 page. If that makes sense. Basically, keep the two links, but have one main page with the current morgana-16 set up. EDIT: And if it's the paragraph of words at the top that the google spiders are crawling, maybe those paragraphs can be put somewhere else on the page. So amalgamate them.[/quote]

[quote=Mowen]Well I will give this suggestion to the programmers anyways. We'll see what they want to do.[/quote]

[quote=Matt]The footer links go to these modified pages for a reason, and they have to stay that way. Sorry :( We've updated them with the newer look, newer browse controls and a few quick links to get you to the full database page. Updating the filters also takes you to the full database page. Hopefully this helps! Edit: They can't be exactly the same either, because I know that will be the next question ;P[/quote]