All right,

I do not use EZportal, but this should work, and can be tested with no risk as long as you backup the files involved first.

So I assume you installed the recent topic block :

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#
#-----[ OPEN ]-------------------------------------------------------
#
portal.php

#
#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------
#
//
// End session management
//
#
#-----[ AFTER ADD ]---------------------------------------
#This for filtering topic titles with the phpBB censoring system, as
# anywhere else in the forum.

// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN
// Define censored word matches
$orig_word = array();
$replacement_word = array();
// www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT END

#
#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------
#

for ($i = 0; $i < $number_recent_topics; $i++)
{

#
#-----[ AFTER ADD ]---------------------------------------
#

   // www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN
   $seo_topic_name  = ( count($orig_word) ) ? preg_replace($orig_word, $replacement_word, $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title']) : $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title'];

#
#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------
#
      'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_POST_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id']) . '#' .$recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id'],
      'L_TITLE' => $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title'],
#
#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]---------------------------------------------
#

      /*'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_POST_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id']) . '#' .$recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id'],
      'L_TITLE' => $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title'],*/
      'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_id']),
      'L_TITLE' => $seo_topic_name,
   // www.phpBB-SEO.com SEO TOOLKIT BEGIN

Then, it won't link to the last page of the topic, but to the topic itself. User will just have to follow the last page link and bots will fell on really interesting URLs

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thanks I'll try that tonight

google is returning errors for the stemap submitted---is that normal??

i get a long list of these as errors

View errors for: http://asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/forum-sitemap-16.xm

View errors for: http://asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/forum-sitemap-17.xml

etc

34 of theml

This is normal, they don't work

.htaccess matter here. Please use the release thread to install it properly.

I think you should take your sitemap out of Google for now, until you decide yourself for mod rewrite or not and etc...

One thing at a time, no need to tell Google you have a nice sitemaps if you're about to change all your URLs

Do it once this is done instead.

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now I am confused

my .htacess is not correct??

I have removed the sitemap from google.

next step??

Please ask for support on specific mod on their release thread, the Rewriterules to implement to be able to turn mod rewrite on for Google sitemaps links are located in the contrib/ folder's .htaccess of the release.

For now, first install the mod rewrite, you can turn of the mod rewrite for Google sitemaps for now so that you'll be able to test the outputted links and see how it works

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the mod rewrite was installed

i will try your portal.php code change now

are you sure this is correct

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/*'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_POST_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id']) . '#' .$recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id'],
      'L_TITLE' => $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title'],*/
      'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_id']),
      'L_TITLE' => $seo_topic_name,.

i get parse errors

oups.

It's because I cannot test, I don't use this one, but it must be an obvious one.

I think there is an extra dot "." here, we should get rid of

/*'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_POST_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id']) . '#' .$recent_topic_row[$i]['post_id'],
'L_TITLE' => $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_title'],*/
'U_TITLE' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $recent_topic_row[$i]['topic_id']),
'L_TITLE' => $seo_topic_name,.

Tell me if this is it, erf, the most obvious it is the harder to find

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Great call--ok can open portal now

So can I now go ahead and resubmit my sitemaps.xml to google??--and then just ignore the errors from google?

Not as long as those link do not work.

asiaexpat wrote:
View errors for: http://asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/forum-sitemap-16.xm

View errors for: http://asia-expatsforum.com/phpBB2/forum-sitemap-17.xml

It's an .htaccess issue, please use the mx Google sitemaps release thread for this support

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