Please review my new forum

Hi,
Can any of you guys review my just released forum?
It is still very new and I am trying to get it running, any advice?
It is located at: http://www.maros-tools.com/forum/

Thanks

"Maro" <maro (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,
Can any of you guys review my just released forum?
It is still very new and I am trying to get it running, any advice?
It is located at: http://www.maros-tools.com/forum/

Thanks

My advice. Start again with the url names changed like so:

Change this: forumdisplay.php?fid=22
to this:
forumdisplay-fid-22.php
How do you do that you may well ask. I have no idea and would like to know
also.
In my case how to change:
....YaBB.pl?b=i;a=d;n=1129065286
to this:
....YaBB-b-i-a-d-n-1129065286.pl

Best regards, Eric.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:13:36 +0200, Eric Johnston <nospam (AT) redyonder (DOT) co.uk>
wrote:

My advice. Start again with the url names changed like so:
Change this: forumdisplay.php?fid=22
to this:
forumdisplay-fid-22.php
How do you do that you may well ask. I have no idea and would like to
know also.
In my case how to change:
...YaBB.pl?b=i;a=d;n=1129065286
to this:
...YaBB-b-i-a-d-n-1129065286.pl

Why? And what for?

Using dashes in url will help when they are used to isolate keywords.
In this case thay will just change url - I doubt the new form will be
easier to index.

/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=5255;sta rt=msg23310#msg23310

Forum using this url is indexed properly (and it is YaBB SE, whatever
it means).

Note that it will be probably easy to modify the forum code so that
url will take a form:

/index.php?b=2;a=d;t=5255;s=m23310#m23310

almost identical with the one you have posted. For search engine these
don't differ - they are just urls that doesn't contain keywords
(unless you are trying to optimize your page for words "action",
"board" and "display" )

Best,
Borek
--
http://www.chembuddy.com - chemical calculators for labs and education
BATE - program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
pH lectures - guide to hand pH calculation with examples

It is still very new and I am trying to get it running, any advice?

What I have heard is that one should fake multiple users *G* :-)
[so people feel it's an active board thereby posting themselves]
I haven't turned to such measure myself, but still... Worth considering :-)

best regards
Thomas Schulz

"Borek" <borek (AT) parts (DOT) bpp.to.com.remove.pl> wrote

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:13:36 +0200, Eric Johnston <nospam (AT) redyonder (DOT) co.uk
wrote:

My advice. Start again with the url names changed like so:
Change this: forumdisplay.php?fid=22
to this:
forumdisplay-fid-22.php
How do you do that you may well ask. I have no idea and would like to
know also.
In my case how to change:
...YaBB.pl?b=i;a=d;n=1129065286
to this:
...YaBB-b-i-a-d-n-1129065286.pl

Why? And what for?

Using dashes in url will help when they are used to isolate keywords.
In this case thay will just change url - I doubt the new form will be
easier to index.

/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=5255;sta rt=msg23310#msg23310

Forum using this url is indexed properly (and it is YaBB SE, whatever
it means).

Note that it will be probably easy to modify the forum code so that
url will take a form:

/index.php?b=2;a=d;t=5255;s=m23310#m23310

almost identical with the one you have posted. For search engine these
don't differ - they are just urls that doesn't contain keywords
(unless you are trying to optimize your page for words "action",
"board" and "display" )

Best,
Borek
--
http://www.chembuddy.com - chemical calculators for labs and education
BATE - program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
pH lectures - guide to hand pH calculation with examples

Why? And what for?
My reasoning was to help the search engine get the important forum pages

upgraded and the less important pages downgraded. As it is at the moment,
all the pages seem to be given the same PR rating even if some of the most
interesting ones have more internal and external incoming links going direct
to them. My observation is that none of the pages with extensions have a PR
value associated with the particular page but that all appear to be simply
assigned an average PR value generated from the PR of the root YaBB.pl page,
so if you have for example 4000 extension type pages the PR of each
extension page is say 1/4100th of the PR of the root page. I would prefer
the extension pages to have individual PR, based on the merit of each page,
as usual. So I am still interested in how to embed the coding variables into
the URL name before the .pl or .php My suggested hyphens are just an
arbitary spacer. Does anyone know if (and how) mod_rewrite can be used to
convert incoming requests for say:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310.php
into
/index.php?b=2;a=d;t=5255;s=m23310

A further recommendation is that all trivial, but slightly different, forum
pages like "user xyz profile access denied" should be prevented from being
indexed by being made "no index" and that links to such pages made
rel="nofollow". I've extensively modified my perl code and successfully
removed thousands of spurious pages like "user profile access denied". I
want only whole forum thread pages indexed, plus the top level index pages.

Automatic rel="nofollow" turned on for all user postings is a good idea (to
deter spamming) but it would be nice to be able to have an admin overide on
a case by case basis so that genuine links to good sites could be activated.

Best regards, Eric

Eric Johnston wrote:

arbitary spacer. Does anyone know if (and how) mod_rewrite can be used to
convert incoming requests for say:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310.php
into
/index.php?b=2;a=d;t=5255;s=m23310

I'd go for:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310/
Instead of:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310.php

But that's me.

-=-
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/index-b-(.*)-a-(.*)-t-(.*)-s-(.*)/$ /index?b=$1;a=$2;t=$3;s=$4
-=-

But like the rest, I'm a bit sceptical.



--
Touched By His Noodly Appendage

Eric Johnston wrote:

/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310.php
into
/index.php?b=2;a=d;t=5255;s=m23310

I'd go for:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310/
Instead of:
/index-b-2-a-d-t-5255-s-m23310.php

But that's me.
Can't really back it up with facts / proper reasoning.

Anyway, here's the mod_rewrite code for your .htaccess:
-=-
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/index-b-(.*)-a-(.*)-t-(.*)-s-(.*)/$ /index?b=$1;a=$2;t=$3;s=$4
-=-

And like the rest, I'm a bit sceptical whether or not this will work.


--
Touched By His Noodly Appendage