Michael
06-13-2005, 09:11 AM
http://www.onseo.com/forums/howto-se-friendly-mod-rewrite-of-urls-for-vbulletin-0-2.24389
This topic seems to be able to successfully remove the old t=533950 business to include the topic title. Looks like an interesting hack, but certainly looks even more dangerous! I would usually implement such a hack but with 3.5 fast approaching i dont fancy doing something like that twice.
nevetS
06-13-2005, 01:45 PM
I like that one. I've been thinking the same thing. I think my mod_rewrite stuff should be done after everything else is modded and even after my style templates are in place.
Joeychgo
06-13-2005, 10:19 PM
The whole mod rewrite thing is unproven. Ive seen nothing to indicated you need to mod rewrite vbulletin. This forum isnt, and it gets spidered just fine.
Michael
06-14-2005, 05:25 AM
But surely having the topic title in the link will increase ad relevancy and get your forums spidered better. Isnt that one of the reasons why Blogs do so well?
Joeychgo
06-14-2005, 08:29 AM
I dont think so - I think it'll make your URL way to long in most cases.
Adding the topice title to the title of the page and in h1 tags should be plenty.
minstrel
06-15-2005, 07:31 AM
I'll agree with Joey here.
There may be some value in keywords-in-URLs but I don't think it adds much if the pages are otherwise well-optimized.
The technique of ensuring that the page title uses the format post title - topic title - forum title (rather than the default which is typically the reverse) is important.
Some people swear by mod-rewrite but I also don't think it's necessary and it does make your server work a bit harder...
