Simple SEO Request

[Rowen7]

Previously on vBulletin with a third party chat, I noticed several people finding the site because they looked for "[keyword] chat".

Could you incorporate a simple SEO option panel into the next release?

1. Title override.
2. mod_rewrite to ../chat
3. Keyword/Description override.

[Guest]

Unless you have configured chat to allow guests to view it, search engine spiders will receive an error on the IP.Chat page.

You'd probably be better off writing a topic about your chat, and keyword optimising that, in which you direct users to your chat. :)

[bfarber]

Not only are guests blocked (so spiders are blocked too) I can't fathom an instance where you would WANT a spider indexing a chat room. It's not site-relevant content that you should care about seeing show up in search engines. Indeed, for our site here I wouldn't want anything posted in chat showing up in search engines.

[Michael]

It's true that there's no real SEO advantage to this, but surely the /chat part would be a quick fix and would be nice for those folks who like their pretty URLs, right?

[bfarber]

/chat is not a problem, no.

I was mainly referring to the other points (keyword/description override, title tag override).

[Collin S.]

You'll be glad to know that this is now a feature of IP.Chat and will be released very soon.

[Rowen7]

You guys rock. Thank you.

[Collin S.]

You guys rock. Thank you.

Just came out 15 minutes after your thankyou. :)