Seo 4 SMF

[sacx]

Hi,

I just released a seo package for smf. It's still in beta and I need your opinion and tests
For a Demo just look on my site: http://www.webmasterstalks.com

It's working with SMF1.1RC3 and TinyPortal 0.96.

For more just read this port: http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo_4_smf/seo4smf_introduction_and_bla_bla-t700.0.html

Regards

[udeze]

I have been looking for this very important Mod for RC3, I have to download and try this immediately, Thanks Sacx for making this MOD available

[sacx]

Thanks !

For support and updates just check the http://www.webmasterstalks.com forum.

Regards

[sacx]

Hi,

0.1 is final. Now I just wait to see what else do you need.

Right now the version 0.1 is adding this features:

1. It's adding beatifull urls. Your url will look like:
Board: http://www.forum-example.com/the-board-name-id/
Topic: http://www.forum-example.com/the-boa...c-name-id.html
2. Change your meta tags kewords and descriptions.
3. Create sitemap and url list for Google and Yahoo
4. Redirecting old pages (if you already had "Search engine friendly URLs") enabled.


Regards

[Dannii]

Try making your profile urls pretty too.

[TANDIONO.COM]

just try it, but getting 500 internal server error

[Sverre]

1. It's adding beatifull urls. Your url will look like:

http://www.webmasterstalks.com/gates_vista_quot80quot_chance_for_january_release-t208.0.html;15

Don't know if it's because of the mod or something else on your web site though...

[sawz]

i've been on his site and it seems to work for him. won't work on mine though, i tried.

[sacx]

Try making your profile urls pretty too.

version 0.2 will have this feature !

Regards

[sacx]

just try it, but getting 500 internal server error

It is a problem with .htaccess and apache 1.3
try to get the latest version and please tell me if is ok !

Regards

[SacmaliK]

hey man supper mod thanks

[SacmaliK]

While the message send 404 not forund errors

example/var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdomains/smf/httpdocs/forum/seo4smf-redirect.php?b=1.0

why?

cheers...

[sacx]

While the message send 404 not forund errors

example/var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdomains/smf/httpdocs/forum/seo4smf-redirect.php?b=1.0

why?

cheers...

1. Enable RewriteBase in your .htaccess
2. Download the latest mod from http://www.webmasterstalks.com

Regards

[SacmaliK]

heyy rewitebase enabled

http://smf.bisohbet.com/forum/genel_tartma-b1.0/

send message only errorrs

demo user: test
password : test

[sacx]

heyy rewitebase enabled

http://smf.bisohbet.com/forum/genel_tartma-b1.0/

send message only errorrs

demo user: test
password : test

Show me your .htaccess file from the root of /forum

Regards

[SacmaliK]

I tested but Same mistake. It is becoming again
One good explanation Do you do ?
Is there another road?

[sacx]

Still not working ... PM me on my forum and I will try to get some free time to help you !

Regards

[sacx]

Version 0.2 RC1 Launched. Please just test it and tell me your impressions or any bug what do you found.

What is new:

1. Supporting some Dutch, Turkish and other characters
2. Beautyfing urls for profiles
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Posibility to change the description and keywords after some rules

You can download this version from http://www.webmasterstalks.com

Regards

[NEMINI]

I tested a couple versions back and the one thing that made me remove the mod was the fact that everytime I tried putting in an old style link I'd end up with a 404 error.  If I surfed directly on my site to the post the url was converted properly but if say someone has a thread bookmarked and clicked it after seo2smf was installed the bookmark didn't work.  backward compatibility is an absolute must IMO, I've too many links in SE's already to lose them all.

[sacx]

All old links are 301 redirected.

1. If you have a forum for test we can try to get all the things working.
2. Do you renamed the htaccess.txt to .htaccess ?

Regards

[NEMINI]

what is social bookmarks?

[sawz]

i'm getting closer, but instead of coming up with the proper url, it displays this url, sorta:
http://forums.my_domain.com/home/user_name/public_html/forums/seo4smf-redirect.php

if i remove the stuff thats not supposed to be there it works, of course when i click another link, it goes back to what you see above. like i said, getting closer.

[NEMINI]

I had the same problem when I tried installing the latest version this morning.  Kept adding in the /home/user_name/public_html/ part

[sawz]

I had the same problem when I tried installing the latest version this morning.  Kept adding in the /home/user_name/public_html/ part

this was in the .htaccess file

#RewriteBase /forum

i changed it to:
RewriteBase /
and it works now for me.

but the profile doesn't work properly so i had to comment it out.

#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=profile;u=([0-9]*)
#RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ seo4smf-redirect.php?u=%1 [R=301,L]

[NEMINI]

thought about the rewrite base after I'd un-installed it already will give it another go later.  Still curious what the whole social bookmarking bit is about

[sacx]

The problems are coming from your hosting because is not supporting full php  and just php_cgi. Just look at this thread: http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo_4_smf/i_have_a_big_bug-t837.0.html

Seo4smf is working with some minor glitches at installing (zeroed files http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo_4_smf/seo4smf_02_rc1-t832.0.html)

Anyway contact me on the forum for support. Until now I solved all the problems

Regards

[shawn911]

Hello,
Your tool is a nice tool as i can see it working in your site with the topics' titles in the URL. Can this work when SMF is integrated in Joomla and when there is already a SEO tool converting URLs like

h**p://www.domain.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859

URLs like h**p://www.domain.com/forum/<board-name>/<topic-name>.html is much appreciated if that does not break the Joomla integration.

[sacx]

I didn't test ... but is possible to work. I will look forward too see if is working or not ... I think all depends on $scripturl variable from smf. I will install a joomla,smf and a bridge for them and I will test, but this only to next week.

Regards

[Kindred]

I can pretty much gauranatee that this will NOT work with the joomla-smf bridge.

for SEO with the bridge, you need to use a JOOMLA-side SEO creator.

[sacx]

Is a possibility to work. I use just $scripturl variable from smf and if this is set it up correctly then it will work.

Anyway I will see if is working or not after some test.

Regards

[shawn911]

Hi,
I need your help to rewrite my Forum's URLs like you did in the htaccess.txt of your module.
But, i would like to rewrite URLs like :

/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=92&topic=646.msg9589
and
/forum/index.php?action=....

TO :
/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859

This is because i have noticed that my old URLs are all indexed by Google and after i have set up the URL rewriting, there are some duplicates.

[sacx]

What you want it's possible from app not from htaccess.
After that you need to handle from htaccess this path: /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859

For example if you rewrite your path to /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859 your webserver will not recognize this. Firs time this is applyed in your app and when your link is comming in this way : /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859 need to be rewritet to /index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=92&topic=646.msg9589 . In this way is working all rewrite method.

Regards

[kazey]

Google does not treat underscores as spaces for example. Can someone please tell me how do i modify the .htaccess to change the thread topic title to dashes instead of underscores, for google's sake?

So it would be in the format of

hxxp:watever.com/sports/football-is-fun.html [nonactive]

INSTEAD of the default

hxxp:watever.com/sports/football_is_fun.html [nonactive]


"-" -> Dash
Instead of
"_" -> Underscore

I tried changing the $page_name=strtolower(str_replace(" ","_",$page_name));
in  seo4smf-redirect to $page_name=strtolower(str_replace(" ","-",$page_name));
etc
but it doesnt work. any ideas?

[shawn911]

I didn't test ... but is possible to work. I will look forward too see if is working or not ... I think all depends on $scripturl variable from smf. I will install a joomla,smf and a bridge for them and I will test, but this only to next week.

Regards

Did u get time to test this ?

What you want it's possible from app not from htaccess.
After that you need to handle from htaccess this path: /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859

For example if you rewrite your path to /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859 your webserver will not recognize this. Firs time this is applyed in your app and when your link is comming in this way : /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92/topic,646.msg9859 need to be rewritet to /index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=92&topic=646.msg9589 . In this way is working all rewrite method.

Regards

Do you mean that i need to use header() in PHP code to make 301 redirections?
The problem is that, that will generate lots of 301 redirections that Google does not appreciate.
For now, only my forum's index page is indexed by Google. I think
I have noticed that Google does not want to spider the Forum, because there are too many duplicates pages.
Urls in this format : /component/option,com_smf/Itemid,92 and this : /index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=92&topic=646 and also this one : /forum/index.php?topic=646 are all the same. And i have no rule (in .htacces or in PHP) saying that all these concern one single page.

[sacx]

The problem is that, that will generate lots of 301 redirections that Google does not appreciate.

Probably but it appreciate more 301 than duplicate content.

Anyway v0.2 final is released with new features.
And now you can change the split char from url to -,+ or _.

Regards

[Chriss Cohn]

Ok, i have SMF 1.1.1 running bridged in Joomla 1.0.11 with orstios bridge 1.1.6. The Normal SEO in the SMF-Admin is disabled(won't work bridged), but i have the component Open_Sef running in Joomla which is deactivated for the smf-bridge component.
My normal Forum-links looks like this for example:
hxxp://domainname/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,98/topic,17.0

Now here my paths on Webserver:

/root (robots.txt "Disallow: /smf/")
   |
    -/cms (Joomla with .htacces for Open_sef)
    -/smf  (Forum )

What do i have to change in my robts.txt in root?
Will it work with joomla-bridge?
In which .htacces do i have to make changes?

Please creator of this mod, give me some answers.

regards, Christian

[VicViper]

I noticed that URLs on the statistics page and "who is online" aren't displayed correctly. They're all wrong, but redirection works nonetheless. Still, I think this generates tons and tons of duplicate content.

There's also a bug in Seo4SMFAdmin.php (lines 199 & 200):
              

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'seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'=>$_POST['seo4smf_description_content_topics'],
'seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'=>$_POST['seo4smf_description_content_boards'],

Needs to be

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'seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'=>$_POST['seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'],
'seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'=>$_POST['seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'],

Or else your keyword settings won't be applied properly.

[flegmatyk]

heh this mod is sweetly working for me
but i have one request : could do something that will replace some polish characters, for example
ą -> a
ę -> e
ć -> c
ś -> s
ż -> z
ź -> z
ń -> n
ó -> o
ł -> l
etc., or what can i do to make that by myself? because now my url's looks like "h**p://domain.net/pliki/a�urek-mix-t111.0.html"...

[flegmatyk]

another problem: i had some subsities in subfolders. But now h**p://doamin.net/~subsite isnt working, but its redirected to forum index. What can i do with that?

[sacx]

another problem: i had some subsities in subfolders. But now h**p://doamin.net/~subsite isnt working, but its redirected to forum index. What can i do with that?

Send me the url of your site and I will fix that 1

Regards

[sacx]

I noticed that URLs on the statistics page and "who is online" aren't displayed correctly. They're all wrong, but redirection works nonetheless. Still, I think this generates tons and tons of duplicate content.

There's also a bug in Seo4SMFAdmin.php (lines 199 & 200):
              

Code Select Expand

'seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'=>$_POST['seo4smf_description_content_topics'],
'seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'=>$_POST['seo4smf_description_content_boards'],

Needs to be

Code Select Expand

'seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'=>$_POST['seo4smf_keywords_content_topics'],
'seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'=>$_POST['seo4smf_keywords_content_boards'],

Or else your keyword settings won't be applied properly.

Thanks for feedback ... I didn't see that problem ... I invite you to post in my forum http://www.webmasterstalks.com in seo4smf thread for any other problem ...

Now I released version 0.2.9.2 with this fix included ...

Thanks again

Regards