1 Topic by Ju (edited by Ju 2006-12-30 14:31)

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Topic: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

Hello,
sorry for my english.

Example :
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=4807
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=4811
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=4814
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=4816
etc.

All the URL are considered by search engines as different pages while they have same contents.
It's a duplication of contents in the engines...

I have proposed this mod (example : CtrlAltSuppr.com), but is this problem foreseen in 1.3 ?

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

Some may see this as a problem but let me tell you that punbb by itself is sooooo search engine friendly ! There are no supplemental results ( as you can see with mybb and phpbb forums ! ) and all my punbb forums googlebot loves very much and indexes new topics the same or next day .... all pages are indexed perfectly so I would not touch punbb with any seo mod big_smile .... just my 2c ....

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

The main interest of this topic is to inform the dev team of punBB 1.3 that there is a lake (or gap ?) in 1.2.x which should be filled in 1.3.
So, dear dev team, what do you think about this ? big_smile

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

Pandark wrote:

So, dear dev team, what do you think about this ? big_smile

SEF Url's are already in place in PunBB 1.3, they are working rather well I might add.

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

I've read about url rewriting but never about multiple urls for the same content...
I've not seen any change about id, pid, ect. when I tried the 1.3 dev version (svn) but it may have change since I did it because it was quite long ago...

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

I sure hope sef urls are only an option in 1.3 ?  are sef urls done via rewrite ?

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

Yes and yes.

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. … ntent.html
Duplicate content, while something to take a look at, isn't the most important thing with SEO wink

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

iatbm: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=83286#p83286

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

Smartys wrote:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. … ntent.html
Duplicate content, while something to take a look at, isn't the most important thing with SEO wink

While duplicate content is a factor there are many more seo factors and punbb has nothing to worry about. Almost all forums software that is available on the "market" has some sort of "problem" with duplicate content and still a lot of forums rank high in serps wink

Anyway punbb 1.2 I find optimized as it is big_smile

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Re: Duplication of URL of post in the search engines

I think it useful to have only one url for a topic page..
Example: I wants to link Smartys' post (two posts above), I'd put the link http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=83950#p83950. It'll be taken for a new page by my browser (not for an anchor).

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