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Originally Posted by Golzarion

No ! Robots.txt in this subject doesn't solve the second problem : if members click the links on " forumhome" and they link to your forums pages with ..showthread.php?p=[postid] ...actually it dilutes your incoming link from other sites !!

You should fix the duplicate URLs to get the better incoming links from other sites !! This is what I believe !

If you improve the duplication links and prevent the others to link the ( showthread.php?p=xxx) surely it improves your incoming links and better !

Surely if someone buy the vbseo ... it acts exactly the same ( certainly by rewrite ) ... you can see the http://vbseo.com/forums ... and see the links of the threads on forumehome ... They are exactly the same as using this mode ! Both link to the URL with " thread id " !
This modification is the best for thoes who do NOT want use rewrite to fix forumhome URLs.
I think it should be the vBulletin default !

Great, but simply rewriting this one link doesn't remove it from your forums, users can still link to it (duplicate content still), Google can still find the link to showthread.php?p=postid. Do you know how crawlers work and find links and pages on your site?

If you want it removed to prevent the duplicate content, you'll have to rewrite every single link that points to showthread.php?p=postid which this clearly doesn't do, or block it from being crawled completely via robots.txt

So go ahead and make this tiny template edit, then in a few weeks/months do a site:http://yoursite.com/showthread.php?p= search and see how it goes.