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Posted November 9, 201014 yr 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.
November 9, 201014 yr 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. :)
November 10, 201014 yr 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.
November 10, 201014 yr 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?
November 11, 201014 yr /chat is not a problem, no. I was mainly referring to the other points (keyword/description override, title tag override).
December 15, 201014 yr You'll be glad to know that this is now a feature of IP.Chat and will be released very soon.
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