[archive] phpBB SEO Advanced mod Rewrite V 0.0.2

Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

if you dont understand me, i dont mean anything on the forum, only the title of the page

dcz

I do don't worry, the answer is yes, it's possible and yes, there will soon be a mod do to so here, but it's sunday Wink

And how about you, do you ?

Wink

Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

dcz

I am currently working on enhancing phpBB link and to organise the phpBB SEO Toolkit. I thought the nav link handling should be added to the phpBB SEO mod rewrites themselves, as it require very little changes.

Here are the code changes that will be added to the next version, you can implement them now they are final Wink

They'll make sure your nav links are mod rewritten and will get rid of the next and previous topic links for guest, as they are duplicates.

Peter77

Now with the upgrade we have this-as-a-topic.html and post1234.html#12345 .... this is not duplicates?

dcz

Well, yes it is, but before it was too.

Let me explain further.

At first, with 0.0.1, the last post looked like : this-as-a-topic-vpxx.html wich was as well a duplicate of the real topic URL being this-as-a-topic-vtyy.html.

The problem was it was impossible to disallow properly the first kind of post URLs, where here a simple :

Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

i have a question, how can i change this:
memberXXX
vtXX
vfXX
?

i have tryied it in httachess but there was an error Sad

dcz

Well, these can be changed, but you have to choose the standards cautiously.

For "member" and "post" it's very easy, you just have to change them to whatever in the .htaccess and in the append_sid() function in includes/sessions.php

For the dynamic anchors, "-vc", "-vf" and "-vt", they can be changed the same way, but you have to choose them well, not too long and they must be unique, one anchor per script (index.php, viewforum.php and viewtopic.php), meaning you won't be able to use the same one for all.

As well, this means you'll have to make sure every other mod is keeping you new standard, it does not matter for "post" and "member" but could on the other ones.

So, think about this before you make your choice, because, I plan to add support for many other modules that will thus be implemented with a compatible anchor with the officials so you'll have to check them and eventually tweak them to preserve future compatibility.

For example, I am about to release a mod rewrite for the smartor album, four more three letters rewrite anchors ("-ac", "-sp", "-ap" and "-sr").

Then, this would mean changing all URLs, like if you where migrating so you'd have to take precaution not to loose PageRank.

Why would you want to change those anyway (beside member and post eventually) ?

Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

OK, i understand, so could it be like this?

vt - tema
vf - forum
post - prispevok
vc - vc
member - uzivatel

dcz

Well this means changing all of them.
I think we'd better directly use "-temaXX.html" but still I don't really get the interest of changing the anchors when injecting titles.

A simple way to force on keyword in the output would be to go for something like tema-vtxx.html at the end of every topic url and forum-vfXX.html for forums for example.

You would just have to edit sessions.php, changing "-vt" to "tema-vt" and "-vf" to "forum-vf". Same in mx Google Sitemaps files.

But this would end up creating duplicates as you'd change all your URLs.

I'd understand it better for the static part ( here "post" ) as it can be itself used as a keyword, but with title injection, the shorter the better for params I'd say.

If you where thinking about forum accessibility, work on your titles, I don't think any user would first rely on the url to find out it's either a topic or a forum he's watching Wink

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Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

dcz

Ho es for a new install, there is no problem doing so.

Just change all occurrences of "-vt" and "-vf" to "-tema" and "-forum" in sessions.php and the .htaccess.

You'll have to do the same for the mx Google sitemaps premodded files and that's it.

But in the future you'll always have to make sure you make the correct changes again (in new mods or updates).

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Hannibal_King · PR0 Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 78

Hello,

i have a question, vwhy the links in viewonline.php is not rewrited? is it normal? because here it works fine... Sad

Edit: and why all robots on my board are still on the index page? Crying or Very sad

where could be the problem?

JanoF · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 43

dcz