foppolo Posted September 26, 2006 Posted September 26, 2006 4. IPB has been tested for XHTML validity and the default skin with default content passes the XHTML validator at W3C.org. ----> http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=226814IBF 2.2. seems not to be ready to pass W3C Markup Validation Service. Try yourself at http://validator.w3.org/ and post your comment.I think 99,9% customers should be glad to IBF to have a working "Out Of the Box" SEO add on or something similar (maybe selecting during installation or upgrade). IBF always forget SEO and if you want to have a Forum ready to run for SEO, you have to wait unofficial mods.Let me have your opinion, i think this should be a must have features for a product with this price range.Thanks
Guest Posted September 26, 2006 Posted September 26, 2006 I agree on the seo, I agree even more on the valid webpages!
bfarber Posted September 26, 2006 Posted September 26, 2006 SEO won't be in this version.2.2 WAS validated, however many changes have been made since I did that and it needs to be tidied up a tad bit again. We're just holding off for RC to do that - as doing it now wouldn't be all too helpful in the event more skin changes are made.
Darksbane Posted September 26, 2006 Posted September 26, 2006 bfarber, is SEO a consideration for future versions?
foppolo Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Thank You bfarber for replay. As asked by Darksane is SEO a consideration for future version, most of your competitors already released a fully SEO optimized version.
Mat Barrie Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Thank You bfarber for replay. As asked by Darksane is SEO a consideration for future version, most of your competitors already released a fully SEO optimized version.Uh, absolutely NO competitors have released an SEO optimized product. Lying will not make your request seem more important.That said, I agree that this would be a handy addition.
Dark Phantom Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Uh, absolutely NO competitors have released an SEO optimized product. Lying will not make your request seem more important.That said, I agree that this would be a handy addition.Its more like streching the truth, as there is a third party that has added SEO support to the one competitor I am thinking of.Perhaps we as customers are just idiots for not thinking to do it sooner for IPB, whom ever thinks to do it now, would a good customer base for a third party producut to add SEO support...
foppolo Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 .. Lying will not make your request seem more important...Thank You for your post... very kind ...That said, for a NO free product such IBF, I think this should be a must have feature, as a handy addition what about upgrade?... no komment please and be sure to connect your brain next time.
Auhosj Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 SEO is something everyone wants, few BBS's do have a slightly near to SEO option but; SEO isn't so difficult. Usually its mod_rewrite with a few outputs changed :D
Stuart Elliott Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 WTF is SEO? And why is it a MUST HAVE thing?
Auhosj Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 SEO stands for Search Engine OptimizationIt improves the chances of keywords or pages being indexed properly in mainly any search engine, so basically it is a "must have" feature for mainly softwares and scripts among others :P
Stuart Elliott Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Ahh, a feature for boards who don't mind attracting all and sundry.. Fair enough, not bothered personally, but can see why people would want it.
Dlf Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 WTF is SEO? And why is it a MUST HAVE thing?Search Engine Optimiatization. I think it would help the SE (search-engines) index the forum better into the database. Which would you rather index? A short-HTML URL or a ong PHP url?
Auhosj Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 In my opinion, a short url since fields have a limit such as an url of length "1000" and so forth
Michael Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 You have to take into consideration the fact that mod_rewrite only will work on sites running Linux servers, not Windows. Thus, it's sort of silly to include this feature in the base product when it won't work for everybody. If it were something like the Full Text search settings in the ACP where it would tell you if your environment allows you to use SEO, and then you can turn it on or off based on that, then that would be better.Personally, though, I wouldn't use it. I prefer being able to see the whole query string in the URL, and I'm not obsessed with improving my SEO.
Auhosj Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Isn't Mod_Rewrite powered by Apache, not windows itself?
Michael Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Yeah, I messed that up a bit, but the argument is the same, won't work for people on Windows servers.
Mat Barrie Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 Yeah, I messed that up a bit, but the argument is the same, won't work for people on Windows servers.Win32 users may use ISAPI_Rewrite from Helicon with IIS 5.0 or higher.
Michael Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 And that will achieve the same effect? I'm no expert in SEO/mod_rewrite/FURL/etc. just because it's not a high priority issue for me, but what I'd always heard was that it doesn't work on the Windows platform, so I just thought I'd throw that out there for all the people in this topic that said they need to add this. If it is in fact possible to use this method for Windows users, all the better, I'll defer to your knowledge on this issue. :)
Mat Barrie Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 And that will achieve the same effect? I'm no expert in SEO/mod_rewrite/FURL/etc. just because it's not a high priority issue for me, but what I'd always heard was that it doesn't work on the Windows platform, so I just thought I'd throw that out there for all the people in this topic that said they need to add this. If it is in fact possible to use this method for Windows users, all the better, I'll defer to your knowledge on this issue. :)That's correct. ISAPI Rewrite bascally works (because it's ISAPI, and handles all requests BEFORE IIS gets to) by letting you write an INI file with regex search and replace patterns, which it applies to all incoming access attempts. It's pro version also allows you to, in that pattern, proxy the request to a different server and abort processing on the local one. I think that's pretty much a mixture of of mod_rewrite and mod_proxy.
Guest Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 a good url makes half of your ranking you above your competitors, so I'd say SEO-urls are pretty important. :)
Tim Dorr Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 a good url makes half of your ranking you above your competitors, so I'd say SEO-urls are pretty important. :)But when everyone has SEO options, it will even back out. I'm very much against SEO. Let's the search engines figure out what content is most relevant. I don't want to be tricked into visiting a site to give it more ad revenue.
Michael Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 But when everyone has SEO options, it will even back out. I'm very much against SEO. Let's the search engines figure out what content is most relevant. I don't want to be tricked into visiting a site to give it more ad revenue.+1 :thumbsup:
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