SimpleSEF 2.0 (SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2.0)

[Suki]

Well, you aren't suppose to strip off those names and numbers these are all vital for your forum.

[Arantor]

And if any of them are in the URL - which, most of the time they won't be for bots anyway - the page specifically includes a meta robots noindex rule, and suggests to search engines that they use the canonical version of the page instead.

[Leppie]

And if any of them are in the URL - which, most of the time they won't be for bots anyway

they actually are, alway...

[Kindred]

why would #new ever be in the url for a bot?
also... why does your url include .html?
(Does this mod add that? I didn't think so...)

[Arantor]

msg should be, yes, but new is based on read/not read status and guests don't have that tracked. Same for boardseen and topicseen. So if that part is in the URL and not for guests, you got something else quite wrong.

[NanoSector]

.html is added with the built in feature of SMF (search engine friendly URLs IIRC). I don't think it plays nice with this mod, not sure, but these mods don't play nice with other features either.

[Kindred]

yeah, that's what I thought, Yoshi.

Unless this mod replaces the standard SMF SEF, I think that the user has both this mod and the "SEF URLs" turned on at the same time....   (in other words, Leppie, you are probably misconfigured)



As ofr this mod and other features...   this one definitely works better than the prettyurls version.

[Arantor]

Actually I'm fairly sure this mod does add .html to the URLs.

[NanoSector]

Actually I'm fairly sure this mod does add .html to the URLs.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with these mods at all. If this mod does add .html, please ignore me

[Kindred]

why would it do such a silly thing?

[Arantor]

Because users seem to think it's important.

Also, I'd note that we ended up removing it from simpledesk.net because it was so buggy.

[Kindred]

users are wierd...

[Suki]

It adds a setting for you to decide what extension you want to have, the only bad thing is that it is required to have an extension. Users actually required this feature.

I don't mind having .html at the end it is a pure cosmetic thing.

[Kindred]

hmmm... as I said, user's are wierd.

I don't mind having the extension, (as you say, it is cosmetic) I just don't quite understand their insistance on it.


but... back to Leppie...
I still agree with Arantor - there is somethign very odd (and likely incorrect) in Leppie's setup, which is causing odd behavior - because many of those urls should not be seen by search engines

[Suki]

I'm also having issues with urls that should not be view and much less indexed by search engines.

Thing is, bots crawl anything and I mean anything, google webmaster tools had reports about my site with urls such as:  missallsunday.com/admin/login/register/  and this urls were actually indexed, this urls are totally made up urls as neither this mod or SMF can create such urls, sending a sitemap and applying some rules on my robots.txt did help in reducing the indexing of those silly urls but I still cannot find the problem as to why these urls were indexed in the first place as I haven't even entered the admin section about bots an ds search engines.

[Leppie]

why would #new ever be in the url for a bot?
also... why does your url include .html?
(Does this mod add that? I didn't think so...)

this mod adds either ".html" or ".php"...

[Leppie]

but... back to Leppie...
I still agree with Arantor - there is somethign very odd (and likely incorrect) in Leppie's setup, which is causing odd behavior - because many of those urls should not be seen by search engines

These links are not the ones for search engines, but the ones simpleSEF generates when using the forum as a user.
I couldn't care less about nice URLs for search engines...

[Leppie]

msg should be, yes, but new is based on read/not read status and guests don't have that tracked. Same for boardseen and topicseen. So if that part is in the URL and not for guests, you got something else quite wrong.

These appear when members use the forum. There are not that many settings in this mod, so it sounds like the mod isn't working properly as I have no other mods installed to alter the URLs.
If this is how the mod's behaviour is supposed to be, it's not as useful/nice as they make it appear.

Actually, I'm removing this mod. Issue solved.

[Arantor]

* Arantor starts the countdown on how long it is before you complain that boardseen, topicseen etc. turn up anyway in URLs.

[Kindred]

lol.... you had everyone fraking out and looking at code because you did not clearly explain your issue to start with, Leppie.

boardseen, #new, etc. are CORRECT in the URLwhen a MEMBER is viewing the forum
... and, As Arantor points out, they will be in the standard forum URLs as well.