Shortlinks (titles in URLS)

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

Undergoing test to see if urls such as

Code:

http://www.mysite.com/article-37-thread-0-0.html#Gamers_Toolbox

Yields better results for google. Their is not much testing you can do for such a small thing, but its gotta be a plus.

Any thoughts?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1282

To be quite honest? Who knows! I can't imagine that it would hurt and could only help. I know that others have tried to do this, even a few of the GT links did this, and so, so does ShortLinks.

Just be careful of changing your titles!

What I have been thinking of is providing a way to do this, placing the titles up front, but still follow with a ID number that is what is really used when re-assembling the link. That way, you could even change your titles, but then I would be concerned about having multiple links pointing the exact same page of content. I think this is to be a no-no.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

Nah I know two ways to do this they both are manual but purely simple.

I will discuss the easiest one for now

In whatever block or module file you wanna add this hack find the string in reference to your title

Code:

$title = $row['title'];
$title2 = str_replace(' ','_',$title);

Notice I am replacing with an _ to keep google from reading %20 for a space.

Then find the url you want to add this hack to

Code:

<a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=$sid$r_options#$title2\"

Notice I added #$title2 to the very end.

Thats it! No adjusting your tapped files or anything else. They should auto-adjust to the modification.

Note: I have yet to try backend.php

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

To disassemble and reassemble seems like a lot of work for such an easy task. I am sure it can be done, but more work than its worth to me.

We should have some results in a few weeks or a better idea anyway.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1282

JUst everyone keep in mind that once a SE has your links, if you change your mind later, you could have a mess on your hands. I still have MSNbot tripping up on one link that I changed six months ago.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

Well I use a great sitemap tool for google and I am having some trouble with these new addtions.

So another warning to others this clearly a beta idea Smile

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 375

Sitemap tool? You wouldn't be referring to GSite Crawler would you?
If so, the trick with this one is to remewmber to make sure you log out of any special privelages you have on the site and clear cookies.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

Yes thats the software I was referring too and I never thought about what you said.

Give that a shot in a few hours Very Happy

Guess my software is not so special if everyone knows about it.. Back to the drawing board

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1282

floppy, what "trouble" are you having? The reason I ask, is I wonder if it could be punctuation and/or HTML entities related? If so, you can fix that with some simple coding.

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 92

I will tell you have you give me that captcha hack!! grr..

Anyway on a serious note
My first test was to see if I could get the sitemap to read my above code example. Remember this is without any .htaccess mods or shortlink files.

So its not really a problem just a series of test to see what works and what doesn't.

Next I will try adding that info to the .htaccess and corresponding slink file.

Newbie Joined: Nov 11, 2008 Posts: 18

I'm using Shortlinks for phpnuke. I love this, I found your website has been integrated on the title or URL is, instead shortlinks: http://montegoscripts.com/article-98-nested-0-0.html
I like such as: Your http://www.clanthemes.com/article376-your-custom-currency-now-in-the-clan-themes-shop.html
how to put teu to be as custom-your-currency-now-in-the-clan-themes-shop.html
can guide you not be? or you can share this code for your reference is not it? thank you

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 375

Clan themes have modified their code quite a lot and have had to make a lot of changes to the code.

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 127

For Forum titles this is this hack available:

http://nukecoder.com/ftopict-366-Forum_Topic_Titles_in_URL_with_GoogleTap.html

Newbie Joined: Nov 11, 2008 Posts: 18

hack title for Modules News? help me.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1282

xiketuan,
Since this "hack" isn't mine and another site is responsible for it, you might want to ask your questions over at the nukecoder website. Wink