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Good point, the # isn't like those pesky ? parameters. At the risk of going further off topic, is the terminating slash really necessary? For example: -http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-google-sitemaps-vt21-225.html#4140 versus: -http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-goog...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:56 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 Forum
Topic: posts url vs url standards
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

OK, I see. You redirected: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=4126 To a newly minted topic URL with the post number tagged on the end: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-google-sitemaps-vt21-210.html#4126 I assume Google is smart enough not to treat these as duplicates? h...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:15 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 Forum
Topic: posts url vs url standards
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

Sorry, I'm not making myself clear. Prior to the robots.txt change, google indexed thousands of viewtopic?p= links, 9 out of 10 which were duplicates of the top-level viewtopic?t= link. When I finally figured out what was happening, I blocked the viewtopics?p= links in robots.txt and started using s...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:40 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 Forum
Topic: posts url vs url standards
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

Well, http 301 is for sure a lot faster than robots.txt, have you read this ? True, but I am asking the search engine to drop the viewtopic?p= completely to avoid a duplicate, not redirect it. The matching viewtopic?t= is already indexed. If I added a redirect for the viewtopic?p= references, I wou...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:27 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 Forum
Topic: posts url vs url standards
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

IMHO, if some content in a forum is really good, and if you want to get it optimized it the most, then move it out of the forum, in a place you can add the keywords you want in URLs and where it won't risk to be buried into the forums pagination. From my viewpoint, there's two motivations for title...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:16 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: Suggestion: Moderated advanced MOD rewrite
Replies: 5
Views: 1057

Several members arrived here with a rather big forum, with PR over three on index, and almost no URL listed in Google, and after a month or so, ended with many thousands of URLs listed in Google's results, which is SEO step one. I've read similar accounts and never understood why. My problem was to...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:54 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: Search engines care about URL keywords... or do they?
Replies: 4
Views: 1116

I mean, this is exactly what is done on this forum, and if you look at it, 99% of topic URLs are statically rewritten. I wondered about that, i.e., why this forum doesn't use the advance rewrite mod. For example, this topic is: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-mod-rewrite/discussions-vt521.htm...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:44 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: Suggestion: Moderated advanced MOD rewrite
Replies: 5
Views: 1057

If it's only a matter of dealing with ', you could just replace them all with nothing instead of Hyphens like for now. True, but it's a language-specific issue; I wouldn't recommend that approach for English. Some contractions read well even without the apostrophe, others don't (e.g., "ill&quo...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:37 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: More readable URLs for advanced MOD rewrite
Replies: 10
Views: 1476

Don't worry the zero dupe will take care of this kind of small problems; ) Indeed, it took months for the search engines to drop the "natural" duplicates that viewtopic?p= created (I neglected to add robots.txt entries for it, profile.php, memberlist.php, etc.). I'm happy to test the &quo...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:23 pm
 
Forum: phpBB2 Forum
Topic: posts url vs url standards
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

I am testing the advanced rewrite mod and installed the mx Google Sitemap. Sorry, I didn't read through the prior pages to see if this was reported already, but I believe the sitemap_forum.php in contrib\moded_4_mod_rewrites\phpBB_SEO_mod_Rewrites\Advanced_Mod_Rewrite neglected to do censored word r...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:29 am
 
Forum: GYM Sitemaps phpBB2
Topic: [Archive] mx Google Sitemaps 1.0.1
Replies: 276
Views: 14633

Suggestion: Moderated advanced MOD rewrite

I've read and re-read the description of the phpBB SEO Mod Rewrites . The advance mod's title injection is neat, but as dcz noted, poorly chosen titles could blunt the benefit. Sure, as moderator, you could drop the member a friendly note and change the title to something more meaningful, but anothe...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:17 am
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: Suggestion: Moderated advanced MOD rewrite
Replies: 5
Views: 1057

Search engines care about URL keywords... or do they?

It's been about six months that I'm working on my site's SEO, sifting through articles and hints about what is worth doing and what isn't. Team phpBB SEO, it's great to see a forum dedicated to the topic! One reason I've resisted going through the trouble of URL rewriting is because I've read varyin...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:57 am
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: Search engines care about URL keywords... or do they?
Replies: 4
Views: 1116

More readable URLs for advanced MOD rewrite

I understand the main motivation for the phpBB MOD rewrites is more search engine friendly URLs, but what intrigues me is the advanced MOD's more people friendly URLs. Last night while I was waiting for the little ones to settle down, I installed the MOD on a local installation. EasyMOD tripped over...
by HB
Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:41 am
 
Forum: phpBB2 mod Rewrite
Topic: More readable URLs for advanced MOD rewrite
Replies: 10
Views: 1476
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