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    Posted: 13 July 2011 at 10:47am
Hi,
I already used the re-writing module in V9 and have a lot of my forum indexed using the friendly urls in Google.

V10 presents two options for URL re-writing:

URL Rewriting Page Names:
When used with the URL Rewriting Add-On this will allow page names to be rewritten as HTML pages that include the title or name of the page within the file name. When used without URL Rewriting it will add a 'title' Query String to the URL with the title or name of the page, this can help improve SEO. 

URL Rewriting:
If you are using URL Rewriting then enable this to improve Search Engine Indexing. You can tell if your are using URL writing if the page names within your forum end in '.html'.

I would like to keep URL re-writing but I would like to ensure all my indexed forums have the same re-written url in V10 as they did in V9. I.E I don't wish the page names to change.

Which option should I select?

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You would select both options if using URL Rewriting.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dbramley Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 July 2011 at 1:17pm
Thanks - and that wouldn't change any existing urls that were created in V9?

So a forum that currently has: 

/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=9

and is re-written to:

 /forum/forum9.html

Would stay the same with BOTH options selected?

And a topic that is:

/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4050

and is re-written to:

/forum/topic4050.html

Would stay the same?

Its just I don't want to select both options only to have all my forum links with different urls to before.

Thanks Bruce.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WebWiz-Bruce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 July 2011 at 2:27pm
It would appear by your URL's that you disabled the URL Rewriting Page Names in version 9. Otherwise you would have:-

/forum/topic-subject-here_topic4050.html

This means that you are not getting any benefit from the SEO Rewriting. It's having the forum or topic name in the page name that improves indexing.

If you had not disabled URL Rewriting Page Names in version 9 then yes enabling both would be the same URL's as version 9 in regards to indexing.

At the moment without the page names in your Rewritten URL's you have no benefit to URL Rewriting and are just wasting server and network resources for no reason.
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Thanks. Damn hadn't noticed that until you've pointed it out.

I thought by having .html at the end meant it would be easier for google to index than having something like ?TID=4050 at the end.

Not sure on if I should change it now with it already being indexed quite well.

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I would change it as both the old a new links would work.

The canonical meta tag tells Google what the correct page URL is so that it can update it's index to only include the correct URL.
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Thanks - If the old will still work and eventually google will update then I think I might as well.
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