Major Additions - DC SEO vB URL Rewrite

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[DC Seo vB URL Rewrite]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

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

Installation

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Please read the readme.txt file included in the zip for details on how to install this modification.


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[beezo]

does Google penalize you if you have the regular URL like url/showthread.php?t=3333 and the mod rewrite URL url/t3333-this-subject-in-rewrite.html that points to the same page. Is this duplicate content?

The reason I am asking is my forum is not indexed on 2 of my sites and is indexed OK on another one. I was wondering if this mod would hurt indexing when google spiders through the non-rewrite urls.

[geek1234]

This works like a dream, but I'm curious if all you guys knew how to tweak the .htaccess file. I actually took the guts of the .htaccess from a post on the front page of this thread. From the looks of this thread, it seems this script actually writes the .htaccess file for you and all you do is copy and upload.

Does this script write the .htaccess reg exp code for you? Or is everyone but me a regular expression expert?

[geek1234]

<added> and I still don't quite understand why the "new post" page can't be done...I can understnad why the "last post" can't be done, but you'd think the "new post" page could at least be done as the urls there are: showthread.php?t=####

Or is there a new upload and I haven't figured out how to get it?

[jugo]

Originally Posted by beezo

does Google penalize you if you have the regular URL like url/showthread.php?t=3333 and the mod rewrite URL url/t3333-this-subject-in-rewrite.html that points to the same page. Is this duplicate content?

The reason I am asking is my forum is not indexed on 2 of my sites and is indexed OK on another one. I was wondering if this mod would hurt indexing when google spiders through the non-rewrite urls.

Yes duplicate content will get you some issues with Google. BUT there is a solution. Create or edit your robots.txt file to include your Forum's PHP Files.

This way only your SEO'ed content will be spidered.