Vbulletin CMs Articles or Thread Promotion to articles

[RichieBoy67]

Hey,

I am just curious about how you all utilize the cms. We added some cms pages awhile ago and the idea is to use them with the forums. My question is, is it better to create the forum thread and then promote it to an article or create the articles in the cms and share them to the forum.

I am just trying to get some opinions. There is a great mod here that shows the entire cms article in the forum but with the amount of articles we have it gets confusing and the articles show as regular threads but cannot be edited except through the cms.

I would not even bother doing both and would just stick with the cms but the forums get much more visibility.

Is there an seo duplicate content issue with promoting threads to articles?

Thanks

Feel free to share any other cms tips you have.

[RichieBoy67]

Bumpy bump

[DemOnstar]

I tried the CMS and the mod you are talking about.
I also heard of duplicate content having some kind of penalty.

I still use the CMS for articles, it is good for that but there are problems with comments and pictures and it isn't really worth the effort.
The integration of CMS and forums is better done manually.
By that I mean the thread that is created by the CMS is better posted in an invisible forum. I believe this is established practice.

What I do now is create the article (turn off comments) and then create a link for comments to another forum that is created by myself. It is much easier for comments to be added, it is more manageable and also negates the duplicate content and the attachment issues.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by DemOnstar

I tried the CMS and the mod you are talking about.
I also heard of duplicate content having some kind of penalty.

I still use the CMS for articles, it is good for that but there are problems with comments and pictures and it isn't really worth the effort.
The integration of CMS and forums is better done manually.
By that I mean the thread that is created by the CMS is better posted in an invisible forum. I believe this is established practice.

What I do now is create the article (turn off comments) and then create a link for comments to another forum that is created by myself. It is much easier for comments to be added, it is more manageable and also negates the duplicate content and the attachment issues.

Thanks,

I am a little confused about how you do your comments. What do you mean you create a link for the comments to a forum that is created by itself?

Is there any chance of me seeing your system?

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Oh yeah, Regarding the mod that shows the cms article in the forum, I believe it only links the article basically so I do not believe this will have a duplicate content issue. The only issue with this method is that the main post cannot be edited without going into the cms.

Promoting the threads to articles seems more problematic in duplicate content terms but at times this has to be done for certain very popular threads.

I was also thinking of a mod or plug in that would add a meta or something to block those promoted threads from being crawled in the cms page. I have to think about this more though but a simple nofollow meta would block them from being crawled. I am just not sure how to implement it on individual cms articles.

[DemOnstar]

Better to demonstrate I think.
No problem Rich, have a look here http://www.mightymoiety.com/content.php

Look to the bottom of every article and you will find a link to the manually created forum.
When you arrive at the forum, you will find another link back to the article.

Not sure if it is a good system but it works for me.

Also check here http://www.mightymoiety.com/forumdis...0-Observations for the forum dedicated to article comments.

[RichieBoy67]

Interesting but my site is set up differently. We use the main page as a way to promote certain events, etc

PHP Code:

http://musclemecca.com/ 


Now I can create some of these events directly in the cms and then the mod will post them into a forum, I will move them to the forum of my choice but then the issue is that we get some commenting in the cms and others in the forums. The Vbulletin cms is really a very confusing system.

[DemOnstar]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

The Vbulletin cms is really a very confusing system.

Agreed.
I am thinking that this is the common consensus.

EDIT: BTW, your link doesn't work. I get the favicon but a blankpage.

[RichieBoy67]

Really? Works fine here... what browser are you using?

[DemOnstar]

I am using Firefox with the link you provided above.
Tried again this morning and still nothing.

[RichieBoy67]

Nobody else seems to be having an issue connecting. The only think I can think of is our security.. when you have time to try again let me know and I will disable some of it just to see.

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Can you check again when you have a second?