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What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.
Requirements:
You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc
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If you mean only specific threads, then not with this plugin.
Thanks for the script, it works perfectly. I just think it work well if it were for specific threads because then search engines would spider them better right?
For my site, most threads are news articles which would make the proposed hack ideal.
Well that is something different But what use is it having an english character set in your URLs when your site is foreign? Your search engine users will be searching in google, yahoo or msn etc using foreign characters and your URLs will not have these characters so the benefit is lost.
Because also Google and other robots translate these letters and they equal them.
Also lot of people do not use punctuation symbols, they got used to write emails without punctuation, because it cause troubles for email clients to read them.
Then I suppose crawlers started to equal those letters, because sometime they are in use and sometime they don't.
Thanks for the script, it works perfectly. I just think it work well if it were for specific threads because then search engines would spider them better right?
For my site, most threads are news articles which would make the proposed hack ideal.
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