Implemented Please provide the Standard URL option

[AndyB]

I hope there will be an option in the admin cp to choose Standard URLs. I really dislike Friendly URLs and hope we are not forced to use them on our own forums.

Perhaps Kier or Mike could provide and example of what the Standard URL would look like to display the following:

1) a forum
2) a thread
3) a post within a thread
4) an attachment

Thank you.

 

[Chromaniac]

argh. would there be an option to include the name of the forum ('Implemented/Resolved Suggestions' in this case) in the URL of the forum post?

 

[SneakyDave]

The only issue with .htaccess files is that they're Apache specific, nginx is a little different but not much. Even the Apache .htaccess configurations can vary among hosts, for reasons I don't completely understand. I don't think I ever got one to reliably work on Godaddy's servers with a Codeigniter application that uses a similar routing mechanism.

But if somebody is installing any forum software, the person should be familar with whatever rewrite configuration options you have anyway.

I'm just playing devil's advocate. I don't have a problem using or requiring .htaccess files.

 

[Erik]

Someone actually posted the nginx version of the rewrite in a different thread a long time ago...

Here it is: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/real-world-page-loading-speed.1215/page-3#post-16639

 

[cedivad]

I would say a cupple of things, but I'm on holiday from my iPhone so I will be short.
1) I'm the one who did the best free URL rewrite plugin for vbulletin, tfseo. So I know what I talk about
2) one of the main reason for the traffic increase once that admins ad big boards installed vbseo during the vb 3 era, was that vb has the same content on multiple urls. showthread.php?t=id or ?p=id and more. Once that you have the same static URL for the same content and a sitemap for google you rulez
3) I will be using a title less URL for my next installation, something like site.com/qUKjgY8a
I will do that so that the URL will be the same for years. For ever, if you like that best.

 

[Kier]

I shall allow someone else to respond...

 

[Floris]

Glad I didn't use your product

 

[cedivad]

Glad I didn't use your product

Did I say something wrong?

 

[Floris]

I would never use SEO where the "human readable urls" are replaced with hashes, just for SEO short link reasoning.

Plus, I've never heard of yours, not sure how you claim it's the best one you made for vB .. perhaps that's just an opinion since you are the author. But .. I am sure it would have been a bit more noticeable success. But with 5 years of support tickets of vB, I've yet to come across a vB instance that had tfseo installed.

 

[cedivad]

It's the best from the free ones (the only reasonable competitor was zoints seo). At least it was when I was supporting it, I had a record of 250 forums with the plugin installed.
I'm sorry if I claimed that it was the best free one, none will never know if tfseo or zoints seo was the better.
It's not because of seo, it's because I like it, it's clean, unique and will stay the same for ages.

Sorry again if I claimed it was the best, I was too presontuosus!

 

[Floris]

Mah, I say, stick to your guns. Believe in your product

But you can be damn sure that if XenForo offers all urls to be /<hash> and there would be no way around it, that they'd have at least me as a customer reconsidering investing in a license. :]

 

[cedivad]

Sure, it's something people need to want, knowing pros and cons. People want to see URL rewritted urls, as the first posts of this thread showed.

 

[Floris]

The majority just doesn't want showthread.php?t=x&p=y but read: /threads/new-tv-show.12/
and not read: forum/fdh34u74

 

[Salty]

lrn2SEO

 

[Floris]

lrn2SEO

You SEO for your search engines.
But I build a community for my members.

I am going for my content first, ease of use, the user experience, and pretty urls second, and if I am ranked 1st or 10th in the page doesn't matter to me.

 

[Erik]

I would say a cupple of things, but I'm on holiday from my iPhone so I will be short.
1) I'm the one who did the best free URL rewrite plugin for vbulletin, tfseo. So I know what I talk about
2) one of the main reason for the traffic increase once that admins ad big boards installed vbseo during the vb 3 era, was that vb has the same content on multiple urls. showthread.php?t=id or ?p=id and more. Once that you have the same static URL for the same content and a sitemap for google you rulez
3) I will be using a title less URL for my next installation, something like site.com/qUKjgY8a
I will do that so that the URL will be the same for years. For ever, if you like that best.

I shall allow someone else to respond...

...Basically, you're doing it wrong.

 

[SneakyDave]

[slightly off topic]
I once tried to "help" visits to a Mambo site to redirect them to new content on a Wordpress site by trying to install a common URL format and rewriting (long) rules.
I saw my traffic numbers jump through the roof, until I realized that 50% of my content was in a redirect loop between the 2 systems.
[/slightly off topic]

 

[Carlos]

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329
...

I saw that, but that's not what HE's asking. He was asking if Google confirms or even acknowledges that SEO and friendly URL's are one and the same subject. I've tried a few sources, not even when I said that the two subject matters are entwined in many of the articles based on both subjects.

 

[AndyB]

One thing that is still a little unclear to me. If this following URL

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/implemented-please-provide-the-standard-url-option.2333/

rewrites to index.php internally, what does index.php do with it? Does index.php then send it off to another file such as showthread.php ??

 

[feldon30]

site.com/qUKjgY8a

• Hideous
• Unnecessary
• User-hostile
• Nothing to do with SEO

Next?

 

[cedivad]

Next is that it will stay the same for ever. More important than evething else.