Separate forum posts in sitemap

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by squishi, Nov 5, 2009.

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    VBSeo created a nice plugin for vbulletin that creates a sitemap.
    It also allows you to add the "show post" pages to the sitemap. Those are the pages that you get when you click on the number in the posts in a thread.
    Those pages contain only one post with a link to the thread.

    Is it a good or bad idea to add those "showpost" pages to the sitemap?

    It would create some duplicate content. But that duplicate content would always only be a fraction of the thread.
    Could the benefit from having hundreds of thousands pages in the sitemap (instead of only tens of thousands of threads) outweigh the disadvantage from having duplicates?
     
    squishi, Nov 5, 2009 IP