[jlaine]

Originally Posted by dn lodge

Just a question for the new version... If you have the showthread?=x versio indexed in google, will redirect get rid of the showthread indexing?? Because i dont like when i have the rewritten one and the showthread one both indexed. It drains the PR. This is the reason alot of people want you to rewrite the simialar and last post rewriten.

Wouldn't it behoove one to just use robots.txt to bar them from member.php (which is what the search string is to display last post on a thread, right?) and whatever it is that brings up similar threads (I don't use them, prefer to keep server load to a minimum and queries as low as possible, even though it's not necessary for me.) I block search.php, memberlist.php, member.php, profile.php, and nearly everything else that I could come up with that didn't directly involve either a thread or the forum listing itself... Why dilute at all?

That's only referencing the similar and last post comments - the redirect comment is a very valid point though.