Google showing random Topic and Forum titles

Peter77 · Last edited by Peter77 on Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:54 am; edited 2 times in total

There is something intresting yet frustrating happening when I visit my site via googl's link: - as you may know, this page is always diffrent. the results are always changing... at least for me over here.

Anyway, you will see a topic tittle halloween-costumes-vt4002.html , for example and there will be serveral links of the same topic tittle but when you enter the link, it will lead you to a whole diffrent topic.

This is the same for forum names too.

The numbers are diffrent so I know that's why we are going to diffrent tittles and fourms. ie what-is-vt3874.html , what-is-vt3875.html , ect. So I guess the question is, why is Google indexing this way? google fault or is this something we can fix?

Sometimes Google shows topic tittles that have just for example -http://x/vf44.html and many of these links. of course a 404 shows up, but if you click on cache, the topic is there and will show the correct -http://www.x/z-game-zone-vf44.html

Agian, the link: results is always changing...so maybe you might not see what I am explaining... hopfully you do.

Hope I explained this right. I know this could been posted in the google forum. but if it's something with the SEO MOD... google is always indexing my site and obviously 'sees' something diffrent. What is going on?

gowap · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 1008

I surfed a little bit around and it seems your "related topics" mod is the culprit. Take a random topic and have a look at the related topics listing at the bottom of the page.

The urls links are all begining with the title of the actual topic you're watching followed by "-vt" and then the correct topic id for each related topic. Thus it is generating a very large amount of different titles for the same topic id.

If you provide the name and website of your related topics mod, dcz might help and give you a fix.

Peter77 · Last edited by Peter77 on Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:44 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello, thanks for you reply. Hmm, yeah I see what you are talking about. The related topics MOD was modified to be SEO friendly here at this site by dcz ( I believe ). I havn't read any complaints similar to mine.. but then agian I havn't gone back to that thread. I disabled the the related topics for a few months and just recently activated it. hmm.. Maybe I will make the related topics visible to members only.

dcz

This is strange.

I cannot check the related topic mod you're using, but it must be easy to fix.

It would be a potty not to show those to bots, they just love them Wink

So please tell me which mod you where using and we'll fix this.

As well, don't worry about those URLs to have been spidered and cached, I PM you the zero duplicate code right now Wink

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Peter77 · Last edited by Peter77 on Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:44 pm; edited 1 time in total

Here is the topic were you added SEO to the MOD..

http://boards.phpbb-seo.com/phpbb-forum/discussions-vt75.html

sceltic never gave any feedback. I guess I was the only tester! Shocked

-Pete

dcz

Ho jeez, and since then user reported it did not work as expected, never tried it sorry.

But here is a working solution for you Wink