How to solve problem with post URLs?

[Rick]

Thank goodness I found you guys. I've been looking everywhere for some info. on this. I've installed seo mod (before I found the mods here) and I'm getting a different url for each post in a thread. The search engines index these two different versions:

softrated.com/clear-temporary-files-t24.html
http://softrated.com/debian-linux-p118.html

Plus a new, unique url for each post. The "t" version works correctly using the same thread url with a unique anchor for each post, but the "p" version creates an entirely separate url for each post. This creates a major duplicate content problem obviously, with dozens of urls all pointing to the same thread.

I can't use your mods, without starting over, because I'm not experienced with this and I'm not a programmer. Can you guys give me some advice please.

[SeO]

mm, this is indeed problematic. Because first, title injection on post urls make it impossible to disallow them properly though the robots.txt (that's why our mod do not inject post titles and use postxx.html instead) and then it's even worst because the mod does use the post title and not the topic one to build post urls.

This increases confusion for SEs IMHO.

Now, about how to fix this, well, the zero duplicate mod seems to be the only solution. But it only works with our SEO mods. If you migrate you could keep the same urls for forums and topic, or even take this occasion to play with your forum's urls (since with our mod you can use the keywords you want in them and not only the title), and redirect the old urls to the new ones, including the post urls to the corresponding (paginated) topic url with the zero dupe.

If you did not install many mods, migrating to our premod would not be too much pain, if only your mod rewrite, it would be very easy, files overwriting mainly, it's explained here how to migrate from phpBB3 to our SEO premod same version.

And to keep your theme modding, you could use these instructions to properly mod it for the premod (meta, titles, etc ...).

The good thing would be that you'd have all our SEO mod installed at once in the SEO premod, like on http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/

And, we maintain auto update and changed file packages like phpBB itself, so it's very handy for the updates. You do not have to care about SEO mods this way, only the other mods you could install.