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I think Lou has programmers who’ve customized this particular forum, but there is a product called vbSEO which will do something similar.
Randy,
I am also interested in this..Can anyone at least confirm/deny if this is accomplished by writing HTML code TO the database (like SQL) via some scripting language? As far as my limited knowledge can tell, you just can’t Copy/Paste HTML to your Forum pages???
I have recently installed phpBB Forums on my poker site listed below and they get indexed immediately, but the info that Google and MSN shows is U-G-L-Y and I’m afraid that each page of my Forums are getting indexed with the same Title etc. so that I will be hit with some DUP penalty!
Luckily, my Forums are pretty inactive (other than the 7 or 8 test pages I created) so I dont have a LOT of SE UN-friendly pages being indexed at the moment.
Who can shed some light on this? Do I have to learn something new??? I hate learning, it’s painful! LOL!
I don’t know how it’s done. That last vBulletin forum that I launched, I had to hire someone to install it for me. I think the vBulletin support forums and the vbSEO forums cover this kind of thing pretty in-depth. I guess the phpBB folks have a forum somewhere too.
Getting seo friendly URL’s depends on the CMS you are using.
Firstly, mod-rewrite is used in a .htaccess file to rewrite the urls based on certain patterns. Mod-rewrite is an Apache module that will take the url that is entered in your browser and make sure that the page at the unfriendly URL location is displayed.
Secondly, in some instances, the links in your actual CMS need to be changed to make sure they match the patterns you have specified in your .htaccess file.
This technique is often referred to as a Googletap for some reason. Another term used is “Permalink”. So if you are using PHPNuke, you can do a search for PHPNuke + Googletap or PHPNuke + Permalink and you should find info on how to modify your CMS.
The following is a snippet from my .htaccess file that rewrites some of my WordPress URL’s.
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]Here is a link for a vBulletin Googletap:
xhttp://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=91324
Andre has it pretty much spot on. And there are mods that do this on most BB flavours. However, one point of caution…if you add this after your forum is active, your site pages in Google will probably jump by a large amount and put you back in the Sandbox. I speak from experience!
