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Topic: New SEO Options

Posted By: dbramley
Subject: New SEO Options
Date 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?

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 1:03pm

You would select both options if using URL Rewriting.

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Posted By: dbramley
Date 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.

Daniel

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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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Posted By: dbramley
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 3:23pm

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.

Cheers

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 3:55pm

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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Posted By: dbramley
Date Posted: 13 July 2011 at 4:16pm

Thanks - If the old will still work and eventually google will update then I think I might as well.