Mini Mods - Global rel canonical for vbulletin as vBSEO v1.1 final, remove duplicate content

This is a simple mod. to apply rel="canonical" to vbulletin pages.
Presented from : http://www.nmisr.com/vb/

this is applied for : showthread, forumdisplay and forumhome.
Template Edits : 3
Value : SEO value :
1 - Prevent duplicate content
2 - Better page rank assignment to your page as a result

3 steps :
Open vbulletin admin pannel ---> Edit style templates ---> {choose your used style}
then :

1- Find Showthread template, then you have 2 options :
i) include thread pages (if the thread have multiple pages) then Find </head> and before it add :

<!-- 100fm6.com canonical -->
<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$threadinfo[threadid]<if condition="$pagenumber>1">&page=$pagenumber</if>" />
<!-- /100fm6.com canonical -->

ii) Include only the first page of threads then Find </head> and before it add :

<!-- 100fm6.com canonical -->
<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$threadinfo[threadid]" />
<!-- /100fm6.com canonical -->

2- Find Forumhome template, then Find </head> and before it add :

<!-- 100fm6.com canonical -->
<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]" />
<!-- /100fm6.com canonical -->

3- Find Forumdisplay, then you have 2 options :
i) include forumdisplay pages (Recommended) then Find </head> and before it add :

<!-- 100fm6.com canonical -->
<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]<if condition="$pagenumber>1">&page=$pagenumber</if>" />
<!-- /100fm6.com canonical -->

ii) Include only the first page of forums then Find </head> and before it add :

<!-- 100fm6.com canonical -->
<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay?f=$foruminfo[forumid]" />
<!-- /100fm6.com canonical -->

for better SEO try to make this compatible with sitemap options

For any suggestion, I will be glad to here from you ...
Thanks to FRDS who have made this as a product

[abdobasha2004]

CODE UPDATED..... please remove "amp:" from code of multiple page indexing ...

[Dorgham]

Thank You AbdoBasha

[yahsuah]

Thank you!

I had been researching for this...

[dethfire]

I've been using this and Bing Webmaster tools gives me a warning

"Large number of pages pointing to the same canonical URL for domain"

"Canonical tags can be used to help de-dupe URLs for pages with the same or very similar content. Bing has detected that your site is using what appears to be the same canonical URL for a large number of pages that are not the same. This may be indicative of a problem with your HTML template, content publishing system, or site code. You should review the source of your pages and check if the URLs used inside the <link rel="canonical" href="<url>" /> are not accidentally pointing to the same location for all (or too many) pages."

[dethfire]

<link rel="canonical" href="$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]<if condition="$pagenumber>1">&page=$pagenumber</if>" />

This is not working. I go to say page 4 and it doesn't add the pagenumber to the url

[matrex722]

i hope it work good
thanks for sharing it

[yahsuah]

Thanks!

[blackberry]

does it work for vb 4.x?

[ozzy47]

No as this was written for vB3 so it would not work in vB4

[blackberry]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

No as this was written for vB3 so it would not work in vB4

thanks Any way to get rid off bing canonical error :-s