Some questions

frechdaxx · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 20

Hey,

I installed your Mod yesterday and so far I love it Wink

But I got some questions.

1: Why every post got his own Link? Doesn't this generate duplicted content? For example, I can access one thread page with 10 Post Links..I really don't know if google sees this as duplicate content, so I'm asking Wink

2: When I look at the Post urls I get: http://www.roqbar.de/post960.html#p960

Why doesn't the mod just generate:

http://www.roqbar.de/post960.html

This would be much more beautiful, I think Smile

When I look at Links in the active topics, I even get the URL:

http://www.roqbar.de/post1595.html?hilit=#p1595

3: I got some Links already spidered by google with the old url structure. Which mod can redirect those old urls to their new? The zero Duplicate Mod? Its just rc1 and I couln't find some lines while I tried to install it Wink

Thats it^^ So far a great mod, thanks a lot for it Wink

dcz · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Some questions

And welcome Very Happy

1) Yes, posts URLs are duplicate of topic URLs. That's why the mod does not include the topic titles in these, to allow us to easily disallow them with our robots.txt. You'll find a suggested robots.txt in the advanced mod rewrite release thread.
The disallow in the robots.txt are enough to prevent duplicate content from being listed in Search Engines.

You can go further if you install the No duplicate mod, the mod will convert your post url into paginated topic links so that your forum won't show them anymore. It's increasing the weight on our best URLs, the topic ones. But, because there is a small but, it's partially breaking the possibility to link to all post in a permanent way.
Every post will have it's own URL (topic-title-txx-yy.html#p(postid) ) wich will allow everybody to accurately track them as before, but if you move a post to another thread, the older post url will not link to the new thread. That's the only matter.
The zero duplicate will as well allow you to do HTTP redirect post URLs to the correct topic equivalent (if you set it so in ACP), but it won't change the way links are displayed on the forum. It as well won't break the post URLs even if a post get's moved from one thread to another.

2) That's just the convenient way phpBB3 (and 2) deals with post urls. Adding the #p anchor allow to put the corresponding post at the top of the browser's window. Without it, the page would always load showing the top of the page. And it can be a pain to find the correct post you wanted to see following a link among 15 on a topic page.
These are not duplicates, bots do know it this time.

About highlights, you can deactivate them for guest if you which. If so, the zero duplicate will HTTP 301 redirect them so that they will never show in SERPs.

3) The zero duplicate is your solutions. It's RC1 but working smoothly already as you can see on http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net

Things like :
http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?t=7
http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?t=1&start=6
http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?p=13

So if you did not use mod rewrite before this, you'll be ready to go with it.
If you did use modrewrite on your forum, then, you'll need to make sure the old rewriterules still work as before.
The redirecting principle here is :