So when is this webproworld forum going to follow the advice talked about???
- No robots.txt to keep the bots away from printer pages, new topic, reply to topic, report post...
- No rel=nofollow's on irrelevant links to allow the proper pages to get higher link popularity per link.
- Titles with the actual subject mentioned after the generic phrase "View Topic" - the subject should be first
- No <h1> or <h2> to direct the search engines from the generic page navigation to the actual content.
- No meta description - although this does mean that the snippet becomes the first time that phrase is mentioned on the page.
How many url's can we find for this page???
The proper url:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=61246
http://www.webproworld.com/archive.p...your-site.html
and the new next topic and previous topic that has the potential of adding still more url's for a page
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=287594
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic...asc&highlight= with the highlight being any number of terms!
Bound to be a few others.
Archive Version
I am not keen on the archive version. People are not likely to link to the archive version, and so you are creating competition within your own site between various versions of the page.
Summary
There are so many issues raised in the dutter post that are not followed on this forum.
My expertise happens to be in forums, and I personally like how the combination of vbulletin.com and vbseo.com work together to put right all of the issues mentioned. This advice has been generally used with the
http://forums.seochat.com/ and many other sites to great effect. But you do need to be careful not to go overboard with the rel=nofollows, and allow live sig links to members and members profiles.
Whichever way you go, following your own advice for this forum would certainly improve traffic via search engines.