[Lab] [ORE_bits] Phpbb3

Tue Sep 16 16:09:22 EDT 2014

You'll see it's easy. The cool thing is you only update your robots.txt
when you change the structure of the site. Permit all the URLs you want
using rules and exclude all the URL styles you don't want (also using
rules).

I'm not convinced a sitemap can do much for a forum. Perhaps to add detail
to some pages that surround the forum (if there are any). Make sure you're
using google Webmaster tools if you start fooling with that. But you should
already be using it...

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Richard Sloan <rsloan at themindfactory.com>
wrote:

> Thanks I will have a look at that and see if that can be done.
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh I see...
>>
>> I think you want to look at robots.txt to keep crawlers off the duplicate
>> urls.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Richard Sloan <rsloan at themindfactory.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I had posted a link to the new site I started a few weeks back now, it
>>> has become very popular and I am submitting site links to Google and
>>> worried that I might be sending duplicate content. the site is
>>> http://www.esp8266.com and its a Community Forum for a new low cost
>>> WIFI IC that has come out of Asia.
>>>
>>> I think I found a mod for SEO that deals with duplicate content and
>>> changes cryptic URLS like http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19
>>> into http://www.esp8266.com/compiler-chat-f9-t19 kind of format.
>>>
>>> R.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does the forum have a lot of content yet or is it a future forum? Where
>>>> is it if it exists?
>>>>
>>>> If you want to use sitemaps you'll want to have it rendered from
>>>> software.. You may want to manually tag some content as important and
>>>> frequent though. Just tag them in the database. But don't change their
>>>> tables. Add tables and use a foreign key to link your flags to their data.
>>>>
>>>> For duplicate content, .... well you shouldn't have duplicate content
>>>> much but if there are numerous URL's that have the same content (which
>>>> happens), you want to use robots.txt to keep indexers out of that.
>>>>
>>>> The robots.txt is probably worth to keep the crawlers focused but I'm
>>>> not convinced a sitemap has much benefit. Forums benefit more from
>>>> community management and development of content people want. The google
>>>> indexer will figure that out based on the link structure that forms around
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Richard Sloan themindfactory at gmail.com
>>>> [ORE_bits] <ORE_bits at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am currently running a phpbb3 forum and wonder if anyone else has
>>>>> experience with this code and particularly sitemaps and duplicate content?
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