Rowen7 Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 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. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 /chat is not a problem, no. I was mainly referring to the other points (keyword/description override, title tag override). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin S. Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 You'll be glad to know that this is now a feature of IP.Chat and will be released very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowen7 Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 You guys rock. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin S. Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 You guys rock. Thank you. Just came out 15 minutes after your thankyou. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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