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[Umit]

Do you think static looking URLs are better for vbullletin?

( /t2014-thread-title.html instead of /showthread.php?t=2014 )

i liked vbseo.com but i am not sure how beneficial this is...

[md_doc]

Over at forums.opensourcetutorials.com I have made my urls so they are not query strings urls.

Back when I set it up everyone said you had to do it. I am not sure if that is true anymore or not. BUT if you are planning on actually putting the name of the thread and the name of the forum in the url I think it would have to help in terms of seo.

I am not sure how difficult it would be for you to program though that is what I would be worried about. More in terms of the load on the server than in the actual programming.

The other thing you have to remember with vBulletin is that it is set, by default, to only show the last 30 days. This is why the archive is super important, if not more important than the actual forum itself.

If you do spend the time to make your urls more seo friendly you will want to and you can change the forums 1 by 1 (or if you know sql you can do them all at once with a simple sql statement) to default to show ALL threads not just the last 30 days.

[Neteffects]

Static gets more traffic and easier to link too, but I dont like it if you cant jump to last post and such anymore.

[Oliver]

Static gets more traffic and easier to link too, but I dont like it if you cant jump to last post and such anymore.

I would love to see you post some stats that actually show an increase in traffic after using the static-urls hack...

vB *Doesn't* need any work done to it out of the box in order for it to be Search Engine Friendly.

[sufyaaan]

In terms of site saturation, static URLs play a vital role as per my experience and knowledge. But it won't benefit if your site is full of crap and has a small # of backlinks.

[Oliver]

Have you got any proof that using static URL's actually has any benefit in terms of your site getting crawled?

I've got forums that use both static, and dynamic URL's - there is absoutley no noticable difference in the speed it takes these sites to get crawled and indexed.

[Umit]

Oliver, i am using static-urls ( thread-number.html ) and i belive increase on traffic but there is no way to serve you some stats and prove it.

i think, the #1 benefit is

Static urls easier to link

Hey Sufyaan;

In terms of site saturation, static URLs play a vital role as per my experience and knowledge. But it won't benefit if your site is full of crap and has a small # of backlinks.

what if the dynamic forum urls have enough amount of back link?

[sufyaaan]

Oliver, i am using static-urls ( thread-number.html ) and i belive increase on traffic but there is no way to serve you some stats and prove it.

i think, the #1 benefit is

Hey Sufyaan;


what if the dynamic forum urls have enough amount of back link?

If your site has got dynamic URLs with shorter and fewer parameters, then you shouldn't loose sleep over it. IMHO, the problem would be when you have many lengthy parameters in the URLs.

[rustybrick]

Guys,

It is all about the number of variables in the URLs. vBulletin forums are fine out of the box, the URLs at most contain 2 parameters for all the good content.

But when building your own solution, you need to be aware that going beyond two parameters will cause indexing issues at the search engines.

[sufyaaan]

Straight from Google Guidelines for Webmasters at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.