Please, How Do I set Up Permalinks? (General)

by TimC, Sunday, February 21, 2016, 04:35 (2959 days ago)

Hello,
I am new to this board and have just recently started using My Little Forum software for my website.

Does anyone know how to set up permalinks for the forum? When I post a new topic, it has my website name and then something like /index.php?mode=thread&id=5. I would like it to show the title of my post right after my website domain for SEO purposes. If anyone knows how to set this up, please let me know. Thanks!

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SEO: useless

by Alfie ⌂, Vienna, Austria, Sunday, February 21, 2016, 15:08 (2959 days ago) @ TimC

Hi TimC,

I am new to this board […]

mlf board. :ok:

[…] I would like it to show the title of my post right after my website domain for SEO purposes.

SEO: It's all water under the bridge now. Either a forum contains relevant stuff or not. Search engines don’t have any problems with parameters in the URI. If you don’t believe me, fire up Google and type site:forum.bebac.at. If you have setup your forum recently it will take a while until indexing starts.
BTW, how would you construct a distinct title? Most people don’t alter the subject line (so it will identical for all posts in the thread). Furthermore, there is no guarantee that another post does not exist with the same subject line. Maybe you could construct something clever (subject line, category, timestamp, …) but IMHO, it is not worth the efforts.

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SEO: useless

by TimC, Sunday, February 21, 2016, 20:41 (2959 days ago) @ Alfie

Yeah, I hear ya. It is all about content. I have already had a few of my topics indexed by Google since I posted this thread. So I see it works. Thanks for the reply. ;-)

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SEO: useless

by Auge ⌂, Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 08:45 (2957 days ago) @ Alfie

Hello Alfie, hello TimC,

Either a forum contains relevant stuff or not. Search engines don’t have any problems with parameters in the URI.

So far, so right. For Google, DuckDuckGo, Yandex (you name it) it makes no difference if the URI has parameters or not when the server delivers the same content with the same parameters.

BTW, how would you construct a distinct title? Most people don’t alter the subject line (so it will identical for all posts in the thread). Furthermore, there is no guarantee that another post does not exist with the same subject line. Maybe you could construct something clever (subject line, category, timestamp, …) …

In most forums wich constructs page titles it's done in the described way. The page title will be complemented with a timestamp and/or the posting-ID and/or the thread-ID. But in this case you'll have a bunch of parameters (more than now) at the end of the URI [1] or a longer path [2].

… but IMHO, it is not worth the efforts.

I think, it's not useless in itself. A link to a posting on a page, where you can't read the title of the posting [3] would show an additional info about the target.

On the other hand you may have additional dependencies because the webserver or -space has to support some .htaccess features/functions (or similar techniques for different web servers).

Not every one could use such a feature in the forum script.

Tschö, Auge

[1] i.e. your posting: https//example.com/forum/index.php?time=201602211608&title=SEO_useless&id=8825
[2] i.e. your posting: https//example.com/forum/2016/02/SEO_useless/8825 (adapted from the structure used by cforum4)
[3] Often links are bad labelled (i.e. „click here“).

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