Make your vBulletin SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST template Search Engine Friendly

The default title setup for show single post pages in the SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST template is

Code:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $vbphrase[view_single_post] - $threadinfo[title]</title>

this means that every single show post page cached in the search engines is going to have a title that starts the same, has the same middle, and then finally ends with the title. This is not good as far as getting taged as duplicate content.

Search engines don't care one bit weather they are viewing a single post or a thread. And the person who clicks to view a single post already knows they did so what's the point in telling them they did. SO get rid of this worthless phrase.

Code:

$vbphrase[view_single_post]

Now, you can do one of two things after discarding that junk. You can invert the remaining two so that the thread title is the first part of the title element. Like this.

Code:

<title>$threadinfo[title] - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

Or you can simple get rid of the bbtitle and only have the thread title.

Code:

 <title>$threadinfo[title]</title>

Now when the SE's look at your show posts they see something different immediately in the title element.

Test it by clicking the #1 at the top right of this thread.

Enjoy

Code Monkey

Loco · 10-12-2006, 06:23 PM

Great information Code Monkey

thank you for sharing it

Code Monkey · 10-12-2006, 07:29 PM

I am also going to look into how we can add a little of the post on there to make it individually unique.

Loco · 10-12-2006, 09:12 PM

right on, I look forward to seeing what you do or come up with

Kihon Kata · 10-12-2006, 10:15 PM

Jump, when you installed mine for me, did you set mine this way?

Code Monkey · 10-12-2006, 10:33 PM

No, this is an ongoing recent experiment. Still needs fine tuning. This has nothing to do with VBSEO.

Kihon Kata · 10-12-2006, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

No, this is an ongoing recent experiment. Still needs fine tuning. This has nothing to do with VBSEO.

right on....i have to have 25 characters to post 'right on'

Loco · 10-13-2006, 11:17 PM

25 chars isn't that bad

just lets everyone know a little more about each other

adwade · 10-17-2006, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

The default title setup for show single post pages in the SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST template is

Search engines don't care one bit weather they are viewing a single post or a thread. And the person who clicks to view a single post already knows they did so what's the point in telling them they did. SO get rid of this worthless phrase.

Code:

$vbphrase[view_single_post]

Now, you can do one of two things after discarding that junk...

Not being a coder, my experience has been limited to FIND & REPLACE when editing templates. I tried doing a FIND then leaving the REPLACE box blank, but that did nothing. Is there a fast way to find/replace the string above, or does one just have to find each two instances in the template denoted and manually erase them in each of my Skins?(i.e. what would you put in the replace box of AdminCP's Search Templates function)

G_Man · 10-17-2006, 06:20 PM

I am confused... I clicked the little one and it still says, "view single post" at the top left...

vibemedia · 10-19-2006, 02:40 PM

wow ... great idea ... thanks