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MenthiX Wrote:Just saw you testboard. Nice. But do you think that something like what i suggested before may be possible?

MenthiX Wrote:Definitely do go on with this mod . Something like http://www.mysite.com/the_actual_topic_title_5869.html would be great too if you can make that possible. It will improve rankings on various search engines.

5869 would be the tid. The tid or something else unique is needed because you can have duplicate topic titles in MyBB. You will also need to filter out any characters that are not allowed in URLs, but that shouldn't be too hard with PHP.

So incase of the testboard: http://www.mydevote.com/forum/Public_BET...ion_1.html instead of http://www.mydevote.com/forum/announcements-2.html ?

Hi,
The URL styles should be easily changeable when someone is installing the mod.

I don't think making URL's like "Public_BETA_Testing_Information_1.html", because what if someone edits/renames the thread or announcement? All users/websites that have linked to that URL, would have to change it.

Thank you for your suggestions, and please keep them coming!

I think the mod would only check the tid; the topic name is just there to increase the rating in search engines. On that same note, it has been found that words separated by hyphens fare better than words separated by underscore.

What is MyBB SEO? I used the search, but it didn't gave me anythink (even not this thread, hope it is not still broken)

MyBBSEO basicly takes http://server/forum/showthread.php?tid=1234 and turns it into http://server/forum/thread1234.html. It also does this for forums, the calender and other URLs around the forum.

This makes it easier for Google and other bots to cache your forums.

Hi,
More information can be found here:
http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=5869

I think it would be better to have the URLs in a consistant format. Forums have "forum2.html" but announcments have "announcement-2.html". Try and keep them all to dashes imho.

Not much to test until the other pages are done.

I look forward to using this when it's released in full.

decswxaqz Wrote:I think it would be better to have the URLs in a consistant format. Forums have "forum2.html" but announcments have "announcement-2.html". Try and keep them all to dashes imho.

Not much to test until the other pages are done.

Thank you for your suggestion, I will change that layout.

Just a suggestion:

I think instead of a forum URL like:
http://www.mydevote.com/forum/forum5.html
It should be http://www.mydevote.com/forum/5-test-forums.html (note the forum ID number is the front in case another forum has the same name)

And instead of a thread URL like: http://www.mydevote.com/forum/thread10.html
It should be http://www.mydevote.com/forum/10-forum-jump-form.html (note the thread ID for the same reason above)

I'm only saying this because when you put the forum's name or the thread's name in the URL, it helps it in search engine results when someone is searching for similar keywords. Not only will the forum name or the thread title have the name, but so will its URL. It would add efficiency to the whole SEO aspect of it.

What an awesome mod though, congratulatiosn kodaks. I will definitely be using it for sure.

Please consider my URL suggestions (if they're doable),
Great job,
Andy

Andy, something in the URL must tell MyBB SEO what kind of object it's dealing with (user, thread, forum, etc). I believe kodaks is using this in connection with Apache's mod_rewrite.

I suggest:
/forums/forum-5-Forum-Title.html
/forums/thread-15-Thread-Title.html