The old forum at trevligaspel.forumotion.eu is still linked from several places that funnel new users to a board that no longer receives support. Nothing is broken, but a bit of cleanup on the backlinks would send everyone here directly and let the old forum instance stop drawing traffic.
Two spots really matter — the rest is nice-to-have.
1. Elgato Marketplace — the Community link on the plugin fiche
The MIDI plugin page shows two links in “Additional links”:
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Get help → points to
trevligaspel.se/streamdeck/midi/index.php— OK -
Community → still points to
trevligaspel.forumotion.eu— needs updating
This is the highest-traffic entry point for new users installing from the Stream Deck store, and only the plugin owner can edit it in the Elgato Developer Portal. Same likely applies to the Cubase and Nuendo plugin pages — worth checking those fields at the same time.
2. The old forumotion homepage itself
The redirect banner is there (“This forum will shut down, please use the new forum”) but two small tweaks would double its effect:
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Turn the banner title into a big clickable link to
https://forum.trevligaspel.se/. Right now it’s a decorative header without a click target, and the real link is buried in a smaller block below. -
Add a
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=https://forum.trevligaspel.se/">in theoverall_headertemplate — forumotion allows editing templates through the admin panel. Ten seconds of visible notice + auto-redirect is a clean handover for the users who still land on the homepage from a search engine.
What the community can do
If you have a YouTube tutorial that references the plugin: 30 seconds to edit the description and swap the link. Same for any blog post, Reddit thread, KVR / Gearspace reply, gist. The old link stays as historical reference; the “support” line should point here.
If you spot the old link somewhere I missed, drop it in this thread. Happy to keep a running checklist as items get reported.
Already OK — no action needed
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The official
trevligaspel.sefooter already points here ✓ -
Existing Stream Deck installs of the plugin don’t reference the old forum ✓
Bonus: how to get Google to phase out the old forumotion in search results
Right now the old forum has hundreds of pages indexed by Google. Even with the banner in place, the search results still send fresh visitors there. Three levers, best combined:
1. Meta noindex — the permanent lever
In the forumotion admin panel → Display → Templates → overall_header, add inside <head>:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Effect: Google progressively removes the pages from its index over 2–4 weeks. Content stays readable for anyone with a direct link, it just stops surfacing in searches.
2. Google Search Console — the official signal
Verify both properties (trevligaspel.forumotion.eu and forum.trevligaspel.se). Verification uses a meta tag placed in the same overall_header template as step 1.
Then on the old property:
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Settings → Change of address → declare the migration to
forum.trevligaspel.se. This tells Google to transfer the reputation/authority to the new domain. -
Optional: Removals → New request → Temporarily hide all URLs with prefix
https://trevligaspel.forumotion.eu/. Effect in ~24–48 h but only valid for 6 months, so it’s a bridge until step 1 kicks in.
3. Bing Webmaster Tools — same idea, smaller audience
Bing has an equivalent Change of Address tool. Worth 10 minutes if you’re already logged in for Google.
What doesn’t work here
Forumotion doesn’t allow editing /robots.txt or HTTP headers, so Disallow: / or X-Robots-Tag aren’t available levers. The meta noindex is the only permanent option we control from inside the platform.
Recommended order: verify Search Console (5 min) → add meta noindex + verification tag (10 min) → Change of Address (2 min) → optionally Removals (2 min). Done in about 20 minutes, results visible within a month.
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