I am running MyBB 1.6.1 Release & 1.4.14 Update. It is a new installation on a new website. I have set up Google Webmaster and it is reporting several 404 (Not found) errors within the forum such as:
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=1
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=2
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=3
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=4
/newreply.php?tid=10
/newreply.php?tid=10&pid=11
/private.php?action=send&uid=1
/ratethread.php?tid=10&rating=1&my_post_key=7aedb7f83319c221d49ecd13f66c8d02
/Thread-Great-website?action=nextnewest
Can someone please let me know how to fix these. Thanks
Are you using Google SEO plugin or any other else ?
Did you rename htaccess file to .htaccess ?
Yes i am using the plugin and i have renamed the .htaccess
The plugin seems to be working fine according to the description.
"404, Meta, Redirect, Sitemap and URL are enabled."
I have also added the rewrite rules (although unless specified i have added them at the bottom) and the changes to inc/functions.php.
(2011-01-03, 10:02 AM)N8756 Wrote: [ -> ]/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=1
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=2
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=3
/member.php?action=emailuser&uid=4
/newreply.php?tid=10
/newreply.php?tid=10&pid=11
/private.php?action=send&uid=1
/ratethread.php?tid=10&rating=1&my_post_key=7aedb7f83319c221d49ecd13f66c8d02
Those are things Google doesn't have permission to do.
Quote:/Thread-Great-website?action=nextnewest
If that was the newest thread at the time, there will be no nextnewest thread (yet). Same goes for action=nextoldest for the oldest thread in your forum.
Quote:Can someone please let me know how to fix these. Thanks
There's nothing to fix as this is normal and expected behaviour for now. So the only "fix" you can do is use robots.txt to block pages that will be no permission anyhow. There's an example robots.txt included in the Google SEO plugin, which should take care of these.
ok thanks, robots.txt has been updated.
Will wait and see what happens.
1 more thing if you can help. Its showing a bunch of duplicate title tags also
Help Documents
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=1
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=2
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=3
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=4
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=5
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=6
/forum/misc.php?action=help&hid=7
/forum/misc.php?action=help
Who's Online
/forum/online.php?sortby=location
/forum/online.php?sortby=time
/forum/online.php?sortby=username
/forum/search.php?action=finduser&uid=3
/forum/search.php?action=finduser&uid=4
/forum/search.php?action=finduserthreads&uid=3
/forum/search.php?action=finduserthreads&uid=4
and more
Index and Archive
Member List (26 username a-z)
Reputation
Search Results
Any way to fix these?
"sortby" is something I'd block as well. No point in Google indexing 20 variants of the same content using different sorting options. Same thing with search. Google is a search engine. What's the point of Google using your forum search? Block that.
As for other pages, such as index, you can edit the <title> tag to your liking in the templates, for example index or portal template. For paginated sites this gets a bit more complicated. You can include the page number in the title, but you'll probably have to set it in PHP somewhere (preferably make sure that it's a real number and not 1).
thanks ill run that for a few weeks and see if there is any changes.