SimpleSEF 2.0 (SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0)

[BaghdadGhost]

ya, as I said when I turn it on the mod works fine with topics. it changes the name to topic_id_number.html yet it will not let me browse boards.


sucks

thanks man for trying.

[Arantor]

So what URL does it generate *exactly* for the boards?

[BaghdadGhost]

http://xxx.com/board_22.0/

and when I access last reply of a topic from board index I get this one for topic

http://xxx.com/topic_8060.msg79454.html#new

[Arantor]

I can't help without seeing *exact* URLs, not obfuscated ones. I actually need to see this in action if I'm to stand any chance of helping.

[BaghdadGhost]

http://ahalna.com

I am going to temp enable the mod for you now so you can test it.

thanks

[Arantor]

OK, so that's weird, /board_22/ works but /board_22.0/ doesn't. More curiously, why isn't SimpleSEF picking that up?

So if you disable that option, you get index.php?board=22.0 or something else?

(Honestly, it's really hard trying to do anything with your site because it's sooooo slow, in no small part related to the three different copies of jQuery loaded every page. Note this is unrelated to the problem at hand.)

[BaghdadGhost]

I think the slowness is related to sipleportal or one of the current sections as when I go to fields with no portal it is fast. thanks for the note I will look into it soon.


now I disabled that option. SEF is still enabled I get

http://ahalna.com/mn_ldr_l_lD/ for board 22 (first one)

and for topics

http://ahalna.com/mn_ldr_l_lD/hln_mwbyl_4358.0.html

it transliterate the words

that's why I need the option to be enabled to have just numbers of board/topic, yet it wont let me access boards.


(Edit: the slowness was related to the tag cloud. disabled)

[Arantor]

This mod does not offer the option for turning transliteration on or off.

If you just want the numbers of the board/topic, why are you bothering with this mod at all?

[BaghdadGhost]

This mod does not offer the option for turning transliteration on or off.

If you just want the numbers of the board/topic, why are you bothering with this mod at all?

do you have any recommendation for me?

[Arantor]

Not using the mod and just using SMF's own index.php?board=22.0 and index.php?topic=1234.0 URLs...?

[BaghdadGhost]

Not using the mod and just using SMF's own index.php?board=22.0 and index.php?topic=1234.0 URLs...?

so changing .php to .html does not enhance SEF?

if so then I guess I will just uninstall it and use the default as you mentioned.

[Kindred]

no, php versus html was a "SEO hint" from 10 years ago. It serves less than zero purpose today...

[nend]

Actually back then it was the query string. Now there is basically no difference besides making a easier to remember URL for your users. So SEO is out the window with this mod. I use it though, not for SEO but the nice URL.

[Arantor]

So SEO is out the window with this mod

That would be the case if it were this mod we were really discussing. There is, however much you might like to deny it, a small but tangible SEO benefit for using a pretty URLs mod, provided that your site is being linked to by other people (because the link then gets keywords in the description text, but that's it, and for most sites the actual increase in SEO is so small it won't even be noticed)

When you're discussing index.php/board,2.0.html vs index.php?board=2.0 this is an old tip from the days when search engines would ignore the query string because they didn't understand how to differentiate content (which was before canonical URLs and other things)

[nend]

I heard Google was planning to lower its algorithm for keywords in the domain and URL. However keywords in the URL do hold some significance, keyword domains hold more, but that may all change pretty soon.

The only feasible reason I can think anyone would like to install this mod is it makes URLs easier to remember.

*edit

Me lost again, Every time I see this topic I keep thinking Pretty URLs, which is a completely different mod.

[BaghdadGhost]

I was hoping to find a mod that changes the Arabic words. I have seen this before in but don't remember if it was vb or smf.

anyways you guys are great, many thanks and especially Arantor

[androgyn3]

Hi,

Nobody for my error (see post above)

I have some error in my log :

Code: [Select]

http://forum.domain.org/index.php?action=viewsmfile;filename=latest-news.js;q=viewsmfile%2Ffilename.latest-news.js%2F
8: ob_start(): failed to create buffer
Fichier: /var/www/forum/Sources/SimpleSEF.php
Ligne: 323


and

Code: [Select]

http://forum.domain.org/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss;q=.xml%2Ftype.rss%2F
8: ob_start(): failed to create buffer
Fichier: /var/www/forum/Sources/SimpleSEF.php
Ligne: 323


The RSS link http://forum.doamin.org/.xml/type.rss/ [nofollow] work but cause error.

How i can correct this ? (all my log is full of this 2 error). "ob_start(): failed to create buffer" is a cache problem ?

[travisbwy]

Is there a setting anywhere to choose not to use a trailing slash on the urls? For example to have mysite.com/forum [nofollow] instead of my site.com/forum/ [nofollow] ?

[Kindred]

doing that would be WRONG, since .../forum/ is the forum directory.....

[travisbwy]

It's in order to keep it consistent with the rest of our site. All pages do not end with a slash, and I would like to keep it that way in the forums as well. To slash or not to slash isn't a rule but an aesthetic preference, and in our case consistency would be helpful. Any ideas?