phpBB Search Engine Optimization - Sessions, static ( SEO )

Thanks Craven!
Just want to say thanks Craven for making such a great SEO mod. I've been doing SEO for years and bashed my way through a few SEO forum mods, but never anything as complete and well thought out as this.

Thanks man!
Gieckboy

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Ya ain't seen nuthin' yet! That's about 20% of the SEO work I've already got planned for future mod releases.

I've been surprised at the number of people downloading it. I'll try to come up with a new version soon and thanks for the kind words.

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I am eagerly waiting with great anticipation for the next release. As I'm sure we all are. Thanks for the hard work, it really makes a difference.

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im currently using this awesome hack here... no errors... everything seems to be working well.

i ran across this... i'm particularly interested in the htaccess and robots.txt portions of it. i'm wondering if they will further increass search engine results, or if they're mess up this hack and hinder my sites results on google... any ideas?

Code:



OPEN 



includes/page_header.php 



FIND 



// 

// Generate logged in/logged out status 

// 



AFTER, ADD 



ob_start(); 

function replace_for_mod_rewrite(&$s) 

{ 

$urlin = 

array( 

"'(?<!/)viewforum.php\?f=([0-9]*)&topicdays=([0-9]*)&start=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewforum.php\?f=([0-9]*)&mark=topics'", 

"'(?<!/)viewforum.php\?f=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)&view=previous'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)&view=next'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)&postdays=([0-9]*)&postorder=([a-zA-Z]*)&start=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)&start=([0-9]*)&postdays=([0-9]*)&postorder=([a-zA-Z]*)&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)&start=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?t=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php&p=([0-9]*)'", 

"'(?<!/)viewtopic.php\?p=([0-9]*)'", 

); 

$urlout = array( 

"viewforum\\1-\\2-\\3.html", 

"forum\\1.html", 

"forum\\1.html", 

"ptopic\\1.html", 

"ntopic\\1.html", 

"ftopic\\1-\\2-\\3-\\4.html", 

"ftopic\\1.html", 

"ftopic\\1-\\2.html", 

"ftopic\\1.html", 

"sutra\\1.html", 

"sutra\\1.html", 

); 

$s = preg_replace($urlin, $urlout, $s); 

return $s; 

} 



OPEN 



includes/page_tail.php 



FIND 



$db->sql_close(); 



AFTER, ADD 



$contents = ob_get_contents(); 

ob_end_clean(); 

echo replace_for_mod_rewrite($contents); 

global $dbg_starttime; 



OPEN 



.htaccess 



ADD 



RewriteEngine On 

RewriteRule ^forums.* index.php 

RewriteRule ^forum([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topic 

RewriteRule ^viewforum([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 

RewriteRule ^forum([0-9]*).* viewforum.php?f=$1 

RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous 

RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next 

RewriteRule ^ftopic([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 

RewriteRule ^ftopic([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 

RewriteRule ^ftopic([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?t=$1 

RewriteRule ^ftopic([0-9]*).html viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 

RewriteRule ^sutra([0-9]*).* viewtopic.php?p=$1 



OPEN 



robots.txt 



Disallow: forum/sutra*.html$ 

Disallow: forum/ptopic*.html$ 

Disallow: forum/ntopic*.html$ 

Disallow: forum/ftopic*asc*.html$ 



OPEN (2.0.6 only) 



includes/functions.php 



FIND 



if (!empty($db)) 

{ 

     $db->sql_close(); 

} 



AFTER, ADD 



if (stristr($url, 'http://')) { 

  header('Location: ' . $url); 

  exit; 

}

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That shouldn't interfere.

The code you posted will change the URLs to an html extention.

For e.g. /forums/viewtopic-1.html instead of the php extension.

It should not conflict with my code, and as long as that code is functional you should be fine.

Note: I did not examine your code and I haven't tested it. I do know that it doesn't touch anything that my code touches but I can't vouch for that code.

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kewl... i'll try it out and report back if i run into any issues...

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The one hint I'd give is that your .htaccess file might not be visible through your FTP client. So make sure not to overwrite it if you already have one.

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that's like the mod-rewrite, right?

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That IS mod_rewrite.

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oh yeah, of course, I knew that.

What additional modifications would you say need to be made for each forum to be indexed and descriptions added to them? on top of or in addition to your mod?

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Personally I don't see much benefit to adding descriptions and wouldn't bother with it.

As you can see from this site all the forums are indexed without meta descriptions.

To use descriptions, you'd have to make/find an additional mod. It could pull from the description field for the forum descriptions but for topic descriptions it would need to be done differently.

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I meant descriptions along with the site url and title when you get results from a search at an engine.

so, then is your mod enough at it's present state to get all the forums indexed?

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khisanthax wrote:

I meant descriptions along with the site url and title when you get results from a search at an engine.

You already have that. The text that all the major search engines pull is text from the page. It is the text near the query. Search engines place very little weight on things like Meta descriptions, because that isn't text that the reader views and it's easy to send one thing to the search engines and show another to the reader that way.

Because of that kind of search engine spam most search engines really care about the text on the page more than anything else. All the major engines pull text from the page to use in descriptions.

Quote:

so, then is your mod enough at it's present state to get all the forums indexed?

Every single one of these forums is indexed (as long as it's publically viewable). Most of the individual threads are eventually indexed as well.

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I was wondering because when I do the allinurl query I get a lot of pages in an old directory but none have titles or descriptions, just urls.

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Then there is either no text on the page and it's a query found only in the URL or the page content is not indexed, and only the url is listed.

Sometimes Google only has the URL and no indexed content. Search for paypal for example.

You'll see that their secure url listing (the https:// listing) has nothing but the URL.

That's what it sounds like. This can happen for many many reasons. Sometimes it's a page that will later have it's content cached. Sometimes it's a page that can't be spidered because it's robots.txt excluded.

Sometimes it is a page that was removed, and the link remains for a while even after the content is gone.....

Etc etc

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the mod rewrite didn't work for me, I clicked on a forum and it gave mea 404

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I've never tested that code so I can't speak for it.

I will eventually write my own mod_rewrite code, but I might wait till 2.2.0 is released because I am quite sure that there will be URL changes with the new version.

That way I can kill two birds with one stone.

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*weeps* but I got it working. There were two sets of instructions for the htaccess, I used the second one and it worked.

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i'm sure this is gonna be part of future additions to this hack... but i'm hoping someone knows how to do it now...

i've gone through index_body.tpl and have removed a number of links i didn't think were necessary.

since the username links were removed from the forum rows... i'd also like to remove them from the whos online area too. there's two instances of it really...

the "The newest registered user is"

and the "Registered Users:"

can someone point me to the right place in index.php to remove the links here on the usernames displayed in these two lines?

thanks.

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What I do is simply surround the whole viewonline box with a user logged in switch.

In index_body.tpl find

Code:

<br />

<table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0" class="forumline">

<tr>

<td class="cat" colspan="2"><a href="{U_VIEWONLINE}">{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}</a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="row1" rowspan="3"><img src="templates/Able2Know/images/whosonline.gif" alt="{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}" width="46" height="30" class="imgfolder" title="{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}" />

</td>

<td class="row1" width="100%"><span class="gensmall">{TOTAL_POSTS}<br />

{TOTAL_USERS}<br />

{NEWEST_USER}</span></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="row1"><span class="gensmall">{TOTAL_USERS_ONLINE}   [ <strong>{L_WHOSONLINE_ADMIN}</strong> 

]   [ <strong>{L_WHOSONLINE_MOD}</strong> ]<br />

{RECORD_USERS}<br />

{LOGGED_IN_USER_LIST}</span></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td height="20" class="row1"><span class="gensmall">{L_ONLINE_EXPLAIN}</span></td>

</tr>

</table>

replace with

Code:

<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->

<br />

<table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0" class="forumline">

<tr>

<td class="cat" colspan="2"><a href="{U_VIEWONLINE}">{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}</a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="row1" rowspan="3"><img src="templates/Able2Know/images/whosonline.gif" alt="{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}" width="46" height="30" class="imgfolder" title="{L_WHO_IS_ONLINE}" />

</td>

<td class="row1" width="100%"><span class="gensmall">{TOTAL_POSTS}<br />

{TOTAL_USERS}<br />

{NEWEST_USER}</span></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="row1"><span class="gensmall">{TOTAL_USERS_ONLINE}   [ <strong>{L_WHOSONLINE_ADMIN}</strong> 

]   [ <strong>{L_WHOSONLINE_MOD}</strong> ]<br />

{RECORD_USERS}<br />

{LOGGED_IN_USER_LIST}</span></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td height="20" class="row1"><span class="gensmall">{L_ONLINE_EXPLAIN}</span></td>

</tr>

</table>

<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

Of course, the code may differ a bit depending on the template. But the idea is to just wrap it in the switches.

Now if you want the box vicible and just want to get rid of the URLs here is some code you can test.

NOTE: I am coding blind (and tired) and have not tested this code. So make sure you have backups and it's probably best to test on a test install. Let me know if there are any problems.

in index.php find

Code:

		'NEWEST_USER' => sprintf($lang['Newest_user'], '<a href="' . append_sid("profile.$phpEx?mode=viewprofile&" . POST_USERS_URL . "=$newest_uid") . '">', $newest_user, '</a>'),

replace with

Code: 'NEWEST_USER' => sprintf($lang['Newest_user'], $newest_user),

in includes/page_header.php find

Code:

					$user_online_link = '<a href="' . append_sid("profile.$phpEx?mode=viewprofile&" . POST_USERS_URL . "=" . $row['user_id']) . '"' . $style_color .'>' . $row['username'] . '</a>';

replace with

Code: $user_online_link = $row['username'];

find

Code:

					$user_online_link = '<a href="' . append_sid("profile.$phpEx?mode=viewprofile&" . POST_USERS_URL . "=" . $row['user_id']) . '"' . $style_color .'><i>' . $row['username'] . '</i></a>';

replace with

Code: $user_online_link = '<i>' . $row['username'] . '</i>';

I think this will affect the viewonline.php page as well. Like I said be careful with the above code. I just did a quick job with no testing and there could be typos.

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