Some of the URLs are getting 301, while others are not?

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

I have installed this mod and it looks great but im confused...
This URL is getting resolved properly... >>> viewtopic.php?t=yy

but this one is not... >>> viewtopic.php?f=xx&t=yy

Is there some setting i need to enable to fix this?

SeO

http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?t=3
http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3

As you see both are properly redirected.

Are you using the last version and can you post a link ?

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

yes, im using the latest version...
here are the URLs..
propertytalk.pk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&p=252 <<< not working...
http://propertytalk.pk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249 <<< working...

http://propertytalk.pk/forum/required-a-banglow-in-pehalwan-goth-gulistan-e-jauhar-t249.html <<< should 301 to this...

SeO

Try to set post redirection to at least "Guest", your problematic url is indeed a post url, not a topic url (p=xx).

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

Great!, its working but why does it not just resolve to...
http://propertytalk.pk/forum/required-a-banglow-in-pehalwan-goth-gulistan-e-jauhar-t249.html <<<

I'm confused now what is the difference between a post URL and the normal thread url like this...

http://propertytalk.pk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249

SeO

I don't get it, to me your post url is not redirected yet, have you set the post redirection option to at least "guest" ?

The difference between post and topic url is just that a post url is the url of a post, and topics are composed of posts, so you have as many post url as post per topic pages for each topic's page. These are duplicates of the topic urls, which is why we do not want to see them indexed.

As you can see, http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=3 is properly redirected with post redirection set to "guest".

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

It was working... but im not too excited of the idea of sending the users to postxx.html

Yours is not sending to postxx.html but the topic? and you just have it set to guest?

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

i disabled it because last thing i need is the postxx.html getting index too..

SeO

This is because you are logged in when you try it, set post redirection to "all" and logged in user will as well be redirected to the corresponding topic url.

The idea behind these several type of redirection for posts is that post url are the only one to always stay valid to reach a given message, even if it is moved to another thread. The "Guest" post redirection level can be handy because bots will always be redirected to the corresponding topic url while logged in user will be able to use post urls. It's only here to maintain this property of post url : always working. But it's not required in most case, it depends on the way you are administrating your forum.

And post url should be disallowed in the robots.txt as explained in the mod rewrite install so ...

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

THANKS ALLOT!...
I finally get whats going on!.. Laughing

My forum is currently already index in the search engines... and before i didnt have robot.txt file but now i do...

SeO

That's how useful it is to read the comments in ACP Wink

And yes, your robots.txt is fine for the next two months.

najam · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

Such a good mod, that got over excited missed that part of the acp. Can't wait for google to index these new URLs. Smile