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[Oliver]

That doesn't show anything.

If google ignored any URL containing variables, Google's index would be tiny.

Really - URL's with querystrings are fine.

[Umit]

That doesn't show anything.

If google ignored any URL containing variables, Google's index would be tiny.

Really - URL's with querystrings are fine.

but webmasters (at least me) prefer to link static urls IMHO...

http://forums.seroundtable.com/ thread62-p2.html
instead of this;
http://forums.seroundtable.com/showt...hp?t=62&page=2

[Oliver]

I couldn't care less whether the URL is static or not - It's the content on the page I care about - not how pretty the URL is.

I'd venture to say that 99% of webmasters out there feel the same too.

[Umit]

I couldn't care less whether the URL is static or not - It's the content on the page I care about - not how pretty the URL is.

I'd venture to say that 99% of webmasters out there feel the same too.

OKey, lets change the subject: "why blogs are very good at SERPs"

-they get lot BLs +1
-clean html code +1
-nice content +1
-human friendly URLs ???

[Oliver]

Start a new thread - this one is about vB SEO

[rustybrick]

Guys, this forum will get indexed fine with the URLs they have. Or go to other vb forums and try searching on the page's title.

[Umit]

Okey OKey...

but last question, sub domain or sub folder?
http://forums.seroundtable.com vs http://www.seroundtable.com/ forums/

[rustybrick]

Okey OKey...

but last question, sub domain or sub folder?
http://forums.seroundtable.com vs http://www.seroundtable.com/ forums/

Matter of preference.

[a389951l]

Guys, this forum will get indexed fine with the URLs they have. Or go to other vb forums and try searching on the page's title.

There are plenty of cases of high index & traffic sites that use the urls out of the box from vB.

Digitalpoint
vBulletin

[md_doc]

There are plenty of cases of high index & traffic sites that use the urls out of the box from vB.

Digitalpoint
vBulletin

I 100% agree...

However, you will notice, that the high indexed/high traffic sites do the two following things.

1. By default all threads are shown "From The Beginning" this means every single thread is shown. This is now the default for vB 3.5 but was not the case if you were using earlier versions of 3.0.

2. They modify their archive script such that the title of the thread is in the url of the archive page...

example

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/archi...url/t-712.html

which links back to the main thread. The title in the thread is not a default you have to modify the archive script.

You will notice this is done all over the place at devhsed's sites as well. When we came up with this idea and adding, almost to the point of spamming, links back to the regular forum the traffic on the site increased a lot along with increased indexes.