Thread url's in update notifications

[RS_Jelle]

Mod update notifications are using the old topic url for years. Please change the http://vbulletin.org/forum/showthrea...hreadid=number format to the new http://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=number

A small change, but the old one is deprecated and the new one is smaller.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Actually 'threadid' is still the official variablename. The shorthand notation 't' gets automagically also recognised and duplicate to 'threadid' in each vB script.

[Paul M]

Internally the short versions are not used, they are, as Marco says, converted.

JFYI, this is the conversion array ;

PHP Code:

var $shortvars = array(
    'f'     => 'forumid',
    't'     => 'threadid',
    'p'     => 'postid',
    'u'     => 'userid',
    'a'     => 'announcementid',
    'c'     => 'calendarid',
    'e'     => 'eventid',
    'q'     => 'query',
    'pp'    => 'perpage',
    'page'  => 'pagenumber',
    'sort'  => 'sortfield',
    'order' => 'sortorder',
); 


[RS_Jelle]

A request to change this at least on the homepage as Google and other search engines are spidering now both showthread.php?t=xxx and showthread.php?threadid=xxx.

Search engines are seeing this as duplicated content, which is a bad thing for your PageRank
Unique content is a SEO basic and also vB itself isn't using it like that (only internally).