Great :) More cookies for me.



I never block anything, I rather have them link to a nopermission page then none at all :)

1. In showthread.txt file, replace:with::2. Crawlers don't have access to those files so there is no need to add them (you did perform the first 3 steps in forums optimizations, right?).

3. I really can't answer this. I expect to see fastforward posting an answer related to this. Is controversial.
I searched many web sites for an answer. Some say is good not to have it, some say that some search engines could consider this as URL cloacking if you don't link back to the main forum page.

I really want you guys to search for issue no. 3, is hard for me to do everything... So we know for sure what is best.
Toghether we can make perfect this script. I still think is a good idea to block completly the /forum folder in robots.txt file... we will see what other experts say.

Go to:
http://searchengineforums.com/
and ask there for an answer, there are many people posting, including Google tech people.
If you find other forums, post them here so we all know about it.

Well in question number 2, i thouth having a nav bar would encourage new users to visit links on it, but i dont want to do it in case it might ruin my indexing chance. I think ill leave that alone...
And smilies? I get a "X" image now ... Its linking them to /showthread/images instead of just /images .... Sorry for asking this im a newbie... How do i correct this problem?

And i also wanted to know from other people who installed this if leaving the main logo as a link is a good/bad idea. Thanks.

You can add it if you want. Make sure you perform the forum optimizations.
Ahh ya, about the smilies... You cannot do it without further hacking and is a big one, you need to edit in several place the functions.php, not worth... so leave it like it is, no smilies... is better.

I updated the post with 2 methods now. :)
Have fun Floris.

Hi Floren,

You were right! The dot at the front of .htaccess was missing because the dot in the keypad didn't work (I didn't know until now) and I couldn't see the .htaccess file because it disappeared right after I renamed the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess
Thanks again. This is the best hack! :banana:

Olly

There are some ftp clients that have options to show you the hidden files.
I use FlashFXP.com, I find it very good. :)

Also, I'm glad you got it working.
Floren.

Ya, it was my extra taste... I hacked this for myself.
Is ok, I release it for everyone now, since you guys like it. :)
Check the second method I posted...

Excellent idea, TECK, I surely will install this. Thanks! :D

Ok, I blocked today the /forum folder in robots.txt file.
Google went as usual through it's route... no problems there.
I will leave it like that for a while and let you know if everything is ok.

Here it is a screenshot with the crawlers going through the new posts.