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10-03-2002, 04:22 PM
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search engine friendly hack
Hi there,
I posted at vbulletin.com and was advised to come here for a solution to a pre sales question. Here was my original question... "I'm about to launch my webpromotion website using phpbb. Its a good forum, but it seems to have one major drawback. You can not make the forum pages search engine friendly :-/ By that I mean the url is flattened so that the "?" and "&" and other special characters are removed from the url. thisis inoportant as only one search engine can index them properly and that is google. Even google will not perform a deep crawl with them meaning only those pages with such query strings will be indexed IF the linking poge is NOT a dynamic url. I don't want to go too deep as it gets a tad technical. I was advised on the phpforum to rewrie mods etc. Anyway, i came across this excellent VB forum today... http://www.visualbasicforum.com The urls are flattened and the result of this is that no less than 1,380 postings are indexed in Google (!!). http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...8&start=0&sa=N FYI this domain has 184 pages indexed http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...8&start=0&sa=N [this forum btw has 19 http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...8&start=0&sa=N ] Most fo which are non dynamic although some dynamic pages are indexed. thes are most likely those linked from .html pages. So the long and short of it is. if VB2/3 can EASILY do what visualbasicforum has done then I will deleting phpbb and you got yourself a customer. BTW, the forum in question is http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/foren/index.php It will be a German language forum theme web promotion. " I found a couple of hacks but the one I'm looking for is the one where the urls are flattened and has nothing to do with archiving. Sorry I forgot the name of the poster and exact name of the hack. I tried to ask a question but was denied access to the forum so hopefully poosting it here will help. How can I tell if my server or I have mod_rewrite capability? Also is this the same hack visualbasicforum.com is using? Thanks for your reply in advance. 
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#2
10-03-2002, 05:21 PM
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By default both vB2 and vB3 use the URLs with the ? & in them. However the way that vB3 does and vB2 with a hack will enable your site to be crawled is with an archive. To take a look at what I mean, visit the vB3 beta site and click Archive in the footer to see an example.
There has also been discussion on the boards of making all URL's in the form that you mentioned, however I don't think its working 100% yet. Hope that helps you out 
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#3
10-03-2002, 05:38 PM
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I've no found the thread again...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&pagenumber=12 The thing is, if virtualbasicforum.com can get over 1000(!!) postings indexed by Google I'll take the hack with some warts :-) Apparently it is possible to install both. Archive and SE friendly urls. Alan
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#4
10-06-2002, 12:03 AM
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I have actually done this, I have been able to remove the / and & and = from the url, I havn't tested to see if it can be searched, because I do not know or have the patients to check, but I have removed it. For 2.2.8.
EX: The url of this thread would look like https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php/44254/ -Arunan
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#5
10-06-2002, 05:01 PM
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Good news DrkFusion!
Actually VB should themselves recognize the unique selling proposition of being the only provider of a search engine friendly bulletin board and imo should go the extra mile to incorporate it or at least have an install option for it (possible only apache capable). It is no coincidence that the most popular web forums out there such as webmasterworld.com are specially designed to be search engine friendly. Did you just use the hacks already posted or progrram your own thing? Do tell :-))) Alan
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#6
10-06-2002, 06:22 PM
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It is my own thing, but I was fooling around with it, Tech from teckwizards.com was doing it for his site. I was just fooling around and it worked like a charm. But there are many template edits...and I mean MANY.
-Arunan
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#7
10-06-2002, 07:31 PM
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well today i wrote something very easy to achive something like the Archiv they have on the vb3 Beta.
The advantage of such scripts is, that you have to edit just one template (header or footer) to get a link to them
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#9
10-07-2002, 10:45 AM
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<a href="http://www.strategy-forum.de/searchengs/searchindex.php" target="_blank">http://www.strategy-forum.de/searchengs/searchindex.php</a>
as i said it is a really simple script, i don't know how it'll work on larger sites. It was just a little experiment by me
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#10
10-07-2002, 07:11 PM
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Quote:
via PM or IM Thanks -Arunan
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