Global rel canonical for vbulletin as vBSEO v1.1 final, remove duplicate content
 

This is a simple mod. to apply rel="canonical" to vbulletin pages.
Presented from : http://www.nmisr.com/vb/

this is applied for : showthread, forumdisplay and forumhome.
Template Edits : 3
Value : SEO value :
1 - Prevent duplicate content
2 - Better page rank assignment to your page as a result

3 steps :
Open vbulletin admin pannel ---> Edit style templates ---> {choose your used style}
then :

1- Find Showthread template, then you have 2 options :
i) include thread pages (if the thread have multiple pages) then Find </head> and before it add :
ii) Include only the first page of threads then Find </head> and before it add :
2- Find Forumhome template, then Find </head> and before it add :
3- Find Forumdisplay, then you have 2 options :
i) include forumdisplay pages (Recommended) then Find </head> and before it add :
ii) Include only the first page of forums then Find </head> and before it add :
for better SEO try to make this compatible with sitemap options

For any suggestion, I will be glad to here from you ...
Thanks to FRDS who have made this as a product

This is duplicate content already.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=225080

nope
it is version 1.1
it is now for all pages : threads, forum main and forums

So, is this one the best option or the other one?

Obviously this one, it even says on previous version "better" one (on a link to this one)

What are bad(if there are any) and what are good sides of this mod, please elaborate a bit
I mean this code looks pretty much simple even for me as a noob here, why vb wouldnt have such a thing by default?

Thanks

The "include pages" variants don't validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

This can be fixed using &amp; instead of &

Thanks

of course this one version 1.1

the latest version of vbulletin was made before rel canonical ever existed ! also it is an optional SEO task that may not be found even in vBulletin 4.


thanks I do not know how I missed this...
Code changed ....

does this mod work for TFseo as well as for vbseo?

yea
and vbseo has it already in the latest version

CODE UPDATED..... please remove "amp:" from code of multiple page indexing ...

Thank You AbdoBasha :)

Thank you!

I had been researching for this...

I've been using this and Bing Webmaster tools gives me a warning

"Large number of pages pointing to the same canonical URL for domain"

"Canonical tags can be used to help de-dupe URLs for pages with the same or very similar content. Bing has detected that your site is using what appears to be the same canonical URL for a large number of pages that are not the same. This may be indicative of a problem with your HTML template, content publishing system, or site code. You should review the source of your pages and check if the URLs used inside the <link rel="canonical" href="<url>" /> are not accidentally pointing to the same location for all (or too many) pages."

<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]<if condition="$pagenumber>1">&page=$pagenumber</if>" />

This is not working. I go to say page 4 and it doesn't add the pagenumber to the url

i hope it work good
thanks for sharing it

Thanks!

does it work for vb 4.x?

No as this was written for vB3 so it would not work in vB4

thanks Any way to get rid off bing canonical error :-s

Good Id :D