Steve VH Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 The forum 5 would now appear to be accessible via the Google search bar. Good do, to whoever is working in the background, Sandip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 It’s like we are trying.. All thanks to Sandip though 👍 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbcrd Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 If you type forum 5 into google search it comes up. OK if you know of the existence of the forum. Means it is not completely dark anymore. However, I tried what I considered to be a logical sort of string someone new might use: "BMW 5 series forum uk" That comes up with all the other forums and the dead link to the former name of this forum. It does locate the new forum 5 facebook page. Similar other searches seemed to do the same. I guess time will tell if this changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I did a google search using the chrome browser on a PC for "bmw e28 forum uk" and page three came up with https://www.forum5.co.uk/forum/5-e28-technical/ I think many of these searches can be deceptive because chromium uses your history to enhance its search results. Doing a search for the same thing using Bing on MS Edge brings up nothing. I always clear down any history on Edge when I use it, so I think its giving an accurate result. So Nil Pois. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbcrd Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The tests I did were with all cookies and history deleted. Indications to me are that things will improve with time but that, at present, there is limited visibility to new visistors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The problem is bmw made us surrender the bmw5 url so we can’t even leave a link. Believe us when we say are hands are tied. as I’ve said before we need traffic and content. And for that we need you guys to spread the Word. Post the questions. Start the topics an contribute to the threads 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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