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kenogui
About google and Xoops URLs

  • 2004/2/3 9:28

  • kenogui

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 25

  • Since: 2004/1/19


I have turned my entire old phpnuke/phpBBport website to xoops/IPBM recently.

By the past I had to use URL rewriting to made phpnuke compliant with googlebot, to reach a good ranking in the search engine.

Today, I'm looking at the XOOPS URLs, and it seems they are very shorter than phpNuke ones.

So I wanted to know if I need to use rewrite engine again to help googlebot to crawl my XOOPS site, or if I can forgot URL rewriting, because world is nicer with XOOPS

here is my site : www.bloodbowl-fr.com
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Mithrandir
Re: About google and Xoops URLs

Google shouldn't care whether you use url rewrite or not.

There are some other threads regarding this issue, which may go into more detail.
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kenogui
Re: About google and Xoops URLs

  • 2004/2/3 13:00

  • kenogui

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 25

  • Since: 2004/1/19


hmm, why do you say it "shouldn't" ...

url rewriting worked fine with phpnuke.

I'm sorry to post again about this topic, I have searched for old topics about that, but I didn't find anything ...
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carnuke
Re: About google and Xoops URLs

  • 2004/2/3 13:22

  • carnuke

  • Home away from home

  • Posts: 1955

  • Since: 2003/11/5


Google will definitely crawl your site. Like wise hotbot and some others. There are a few threads going on about friendly urls and S/E optimisation. basically its down to query strings which prohibit many S/E crawling the addresses. Some S/E Google being the most important has changed its policy to include crawling query strings. Not the case with many other S/Es. However, some smaller S/Es will feed off the back of Google's cache and API so your site will show in their search results. Just bear in mind that menus using javascripts and menus behind password protected pages will NOT be crawled or indexed.

There are several useful articles and links offhttp://www.cmswatch.com

Regards Richard
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Mithrandir
Re: About google and Xoops URLs

Quote:

kenogui wrote:
hmm, why do you say it "shouldn't" ...

Because who can truly say that they know (for sure) how Google works?

Unless I am absolutely certain, I don't like saying things as if I do know it
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wtravel
Re: About google and Xoops URLs

This thread may interest you: Apache mod_rewrite RewriteRule Success

Regards,

Martijn

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