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phpbb.com and pagerank

Discussion in 'Websites' started by 993ti, Nov 4, 2005.

  1. #1
    I just posted a new topic @ phpbb.com and i noticed it already has pagerank (1)
    How is this possible?
     
    993ti, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  2. darqSHADOW

    darqSHADOW Peon

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    #2
    Their viewtopic.php file has PR1, not your post.

    DS
     
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  3. 993ti

    993ti Well-Known Member

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    #3
    Ah, that sounds logical.
    Thx :)
     
    993ti, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  4. dvduval

    dvduval Notable Member

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    #4
    With the homepage of phpbb.com being a 9, and viewtopic.php being a 1, I think this is a clear signal that viewtopic.php is devalued by google (on all phpbb forums)
     
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  5. neha_patelx9x

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    #5
    :( a equivalent .html compared to a viewtopic.php would have a better PR even with the same contents ?
     
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  6. 993ti

    993ti Well-Known Member

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    #6
    I did read that viewforum and viewtopic have something negative with google.
    I'm using mod_rewrite and my homepage has pr3, the index pr2 and some forums have pr2 while the others have pr1.
    I noticed that none of the forums @ phpbb.com have pagerank.
     
    993ti, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  7. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    #7
    How would you figure this. PR is a mathmatical calculation based on the links coming into a page. Why would a .html page have a higher PR than a .php page?
     
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  8. onedodd

    onedodd Well-Known Member

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    #8
    since you are on the subject of phpBB I have a question.

    What are your (anybody's) thoughts on robots.txt and blocking parts of your forum pages like:
    /profile.php
    /memberlist.php
    /search.php

    and these and other types of forum pages that really have no content?

    I have blocked them recently because my site:ww*.mysite.com shot up from 9000 pages to about 45,000 pages and some totally useless pages are being indexed.
    Like those mentioned above that account for many thousands of indexed pages.
    (right after using google sitemaps - coincidence?)

    Anyway would you block these pages in robots.txt?
     
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  9. 993ti

    993ti Well-Known Member

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    #9
    i'm not blocking the profile (maybe i should though)
    Memberlist is blocked.
    Search.php is needed because i have a link under the username on viewtopic to all their posts.
    I did that for the bots.
    I did a lot of things on my site actually.
    Removing the post reply, new topic and quote buttons for guests is also handy, bots don't need to index those pages ;)
    I did some more things a week ago so i have to wait for the results.
     
    993ti, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  10. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    #10
    Here is what I block in my main forum. Everything good gets indexed, and all the extra crap stays out of the index.

    
    User-agent: * 
    Disallow: /admin/ 
    Disallow: /attach_mod/ 
    Disallow: /db/ 
    Disallow: /files/ 
    Disallow: /images/ 
    Disallow: /includes/ 
    Disallow: /language/ 
    Disallow: /mycalendar_mod/ 
    Disallow: /spelling/ 
    Disallow: /templates/ 
    Disallow: /common.php 
    Disallow: /config.php 
    Disallow: /glance_config.php 
    Disallow: /groupcp.php 
    Disallow: /memberlist.php 
    Disallow: /mini_cal.php 
    Disallow: /modcp.php 
    Disallow: /mycalendar.php 
    Disallow: /news_insert.php 
    Disallow: /posting.php 
    Disallow: /printview.php 
    Disallow: /privmsg.php 
    Disallow: /profile.php 
    Disallow: /ranks.php 
    Disallow: /search.php 
    Disallow: /statistics.php 
    Disallow: /tellafriend.php 
    Disallow: /viewonline.php
    Disallow: forums/post-*.html$ 
    Disallow: forums/updates-topic.html*$ 
    Disallow: forums/stop-updates-topic.html*$ 
    Disallow: forums/ptopic*.html$ 
    Disallow: forums/ntopic*.html$ 
    
    Code (markup):
    This list was compiled by some people that I would consider experts at optimizing a forum for Search Engines.

    Getting the SE's to follow your robots.txt file seems to be another task all together.
     
    jestep, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  11. onedodd

    onedodd Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Jestep,

    That is great! I am going to apply some of the applicable parts of this robots.txt to my site tonight. I have many of those same pages that should be blocked.

    You are right about the SE's following the instructions though.
    I know 2 weeks ago I placed a disallow: to a form page and I know it was written right and that sucker got indexed on the 28th of October.
    Now did Google grab the page over 2 weeks ago and not add it to the cache until the 28th? I don't know that but next bot go around I will find out.
     
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  12. mdvaldosta

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    #12
    the reason phpbb.com doesnt get indexed well or good pagerank passed is because of session id's
     
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  13. 993ti

    993ti Well-Known Member

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    #13
    I wouldn't block the files folder though.
    Bots index the thumbnails of the attachement mod and it's usefull if someone searches for images ;)
    The rest of the robots.txt looks top.
    Btw, i also noticed that you have to chmod it to 755.
    Did anyone else notice that?
     
    993ti, Nov 4, 2005 IP
  14. FOX LORE

    FOX LORE Notable Member

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    #14

    I've going to applied this to my sever aswell---thanks for the list!!!!:D
     
    FOX LORE, Nov 5, 2005 IP
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  15. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    #15
    I agree, but there are several mods that can be done that will eliminate sid's in the address bar. This way they can spider the whole forum, but they don't pickup multiple copies of the same pages resulting from the sid's.

    I would highly recommend this Mod for any forum. It makes the forum cleaner for humans and SE's.
     
    jestep, Nov 7, 2005 IP
  16. dvduval

    dvduval Notable Member

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    #16
    I'm not aware of any phpbb viewtopic.php urls that have pagerank above 1, so I think there is some devaluation. If anyone has any examples of otherwise, it would be great if we could look at them together.
     
    dvduval, Nov 8, 2005 IP
  17. protesto

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    #17
    I like the way you did on "view next and old topic" links on viewtopic.php. Can you share the code with me? I'm also using keyworld url mods and I did exactly same modifications for bots as you did.
     
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    #18
    I have just hired someone to do some mods on my 2 phpBB forums - for SEO purposes.

    Does anyone have any tips? We are doing the archive mod and the SID removal mod. I have decided not to do the html/rewrite mod, because I don't think Google cares about the page extension.

    Anything else worth considering? thanks !
     
    Sagewing, Nov 8, 2005 IP
  19. 993ti

    993ti Well-Known Member

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    Sure :)
    
    # 
    #-----[ OPEN ]-------------------------------------------------- 
    # 
    # viewtopic.php
    #-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------------
    # 
    
    //
    // Post, reply and other URL generation for
    // templating vars
    //
    
    # 
    #-----[ AFTER, ADD ]---------------------------------------------------
    #
    
    $sql = "SELECT t.topic_title, t.topic_id
    	FROM " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t, " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t2
    	WHERE
    		t2.topic_id = $topic_id
    		AND t.forum_id = t2.forum_id
    		AND t.topic_last_post_id > t2.topic_last_post_id
    	ORDER BY t.topic_last_post_id ASC
    	LIMIT 1";
    
    if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) || $db->sql_numrows($result) != 1 )
    {
    	$nextTopicText = $lang['No_newer_topics'];
    	$nextTopicLink = '#';
    }
    else
    {	
    	$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
    	$nextTopicText = $row['topic_title'];
    	$nextTopicLink = append_sid("viewtopic.php?t=" . $row['topic_id'] );
    }
    $db->sql_freeresult($result);
    
    $sql = "SELECT t.topic_title, t.topic_id
    	FROM " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t, " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t2
    	WHERE
    		t2.topic_id = $topic_id
    		AND t.forum_id = t2.forum_id
    		AND t.topic_last_post_id < t2.topic_last_post_id
    	ORDER BY t.topic_last_post_id DESC
    	LIMIT 1";
    if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) || $db->sql_numrows($result) != 1 )
    {
    	$prevTopicText = $lang['No_older_topics'];
    	$prevTopicLink = '#';
    }
    else
    {	
    	$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
    	$prevTopicText = $row['topic_title'];
    	$prevTopicLink = append_sid("viewtopic.php?t=" . $row['topic_id'] );
    }
    $db->sql_freeresult($result);
    
    #
    #-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------------
    # 
    	'L_VIEW_NEXT_TOPIC' => $lang['View_next_topic'],
    	'L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_TOPIC' => $lang['View_previous_topic'],	
    
    #
    #-----[ AFTER, ADD ]---------------------------------------------------
    # 
    	'L_VIEW_NEXT_NAME' => $nextTopicText,
    	'L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_NAME' => $prevTopicText,
    	
    #
    #-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------------
    # 
    	'U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC' => $view_prev_topic_url,
    	'U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC' => $view_next_topic_url,
    
    #
    #-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------
    # 
    	'U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC' => $prevTopicLink,
    	'U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC' => $nextTopicLink,
    
    # 
    #-----[ OPEN ]-------------------------------------------------- 
    # 
    # templates/subSilver/viewtopic_body.tpl
    #-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------------------
    #
    
    		<td class="catHead" colspan="2" height="28"><span class="nav"><a href="{U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_TOPIC}</a> :: <a href="{U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_NEXT_TOPIC}</a> &nbsp;</span></td>
    
    #
    #-----[ INLINE FIND ]------------------------------------------
    #
    
    		<a href="{U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_TOPIC}</a> :: <a href="{U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_NEXT_TOPIC}</a>
    
    #
    #-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------
    # 
    
    		{L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_TOPIC}: <a href="{U_VIEW_OLDER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_PREVIOUS_NAME}</a><br />{L_VIEW_NEXT_TOPIC}: <a href="{U_VIEW_NEWER_TOPIC}" class="nav">{L_VIEW_NEXT_NAME}</a>
    
    Code (markup):
     
    993ti, Nov 8, 2005 IP
  20. Sagewing

    Sagewing Peon

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    Nice!

    Does anyone have any opinions on EasyMod? I think it can easily install that kind of mod, but I'm wary of this kind of thing!
     
    Sagewing, Nov 8, 2005 IP