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This little hackette is a quick fix to allow search engine bots to spider your threads.

Although this will allow the bots to index every thread on your site, it will not make the threads 'search engine optimized'. They will see exactly what you see when you visit your site. It simply removes the CGI bits from the URL's which prevents most search engine bots from spidering more than one level deep.

If you want a hack that allows to fully customize how the thread will look to the search engine bot, you should look at Overgrows more complete hack here.

The advantage of this hack over Overgrows is that it does not require htaccess support which can have performance issues. This could also be seen as a disadvantage though as my hack requires that you have mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache Server, whereas Overgrows method should work with just about any web host out there.

Take yer pick

fastforward · #**212** 01-16-2003, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Haakon
But I really want to second fello9`s question about the secret to enable this hack for page navigation. Do you have an idea fastforward, or anyone?

Check page 8 of this thread for a post by amykhar.

I will try and update the file sometime soon to reflect all the bug fixes and additions that people have contributed.

Haakon · #**213** 01-16-2003, 02:40 PM

That was me asking that same question back then

; but it didn`t do anything to my board, so I ask again

fastforward · #**214** 01-16-2003, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Haakon
That was me asking that same question back then ; but it didn`t do anything to my board, so I ask again

oops.. sorry :ermm:

I'll make a commitment and promise to find a solution this week. I promise to have something by next Wednesday.

I could make use of that feature myself actually.

Haakon · #**215** 01-16-2003, 02:50 PM

Thanks!, that`s great fastforward.
But I see now that amykhar got it working, maybe you could test it, maybe it`s just my site.

I use htaccess, it would be great if you find a solution!

Thanks,
Haakon

cyc · #**216** 01-16-2003, 07:33 PM

how do you force everyone to use cookies?

I've added the new rewrite rule and deleted the sessionhash from the templates, but in the users online section I can still see some users browsing with sessions :ninja:

cheers!

NTLDR · #**217** 01-16-2003, 08:02 PM

You can't force them to use cookies, they can block them on there machine if they want to.

cyc · #**218** 01-17-2003, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NTLDR
You can't force them to use cookies, they can block them on there machine if they want to.

I realise that......however googlebot is at my website now but in the online users sectinos its showing up as http://www.cyclingforums.com/f26?=fa...0b43e091389c38 rather than http://www.cyclingforums.com/f26

Most users are showing with the short url.

cheers!

Haakon · #**219** 01-17-2003, 02:59 PM

Cyc, the googlebot gets a little confused the first month, so you might experience that it crawls both rewritten urls and normal ones. At least it did this with my site the first months, but it won`t hurt you.

NTLDR · #**220** 01-17-2003, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cyc

I realise that......however googlebot is at my website now but in the online users sectinos its showing up as http://www.cyclingforums.com/f26?=fa...0b43e091389c38 rather than http://www.cyclingforums.com/f26

Most users are showing with the short url.

cheers!

If you take a closer look at the sessionhash in unknown urls then you will find its your sessionhash and doesn't mean that the googlebot has one.

cyc · #**221** 01-20-2003, 05:52 AM

Has anyone set this up so guests get the rewritten urls and members get the normal urls? is this even possible?

cheers!

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