For vB 2.0
This little hackette is a quick fix to allow search engine bots to spider your threads.
Although this will allow the bots to index every thread on your site, it will not make the threads 'search engine optimized'. They will see exactly what you see when you visit your site. It simply removes the CGI bits from the URL's which prevents most search engine bots from spidering more than one level deep.
If you want a hack that allows to fully customize how the thread will look to the search engine bot, you should look at Overgrows more complete hack here.
The advantage of this hack over Overgrows is that it does not require htaccess support which can have performance issues. This could also be seen as a disadvantage though as my hack requires that you have mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache Server, whereas Overgrows method should work with just about any web host out there.
Take yer pick
This little hackette is a quick fix to allow search engine bots to spider your threads.
Although this will allow the bots to index every thread on your site, it will not make the threads 'search engine optimized'. They will see exactly what you see when you visit your site. It simply removes the CGI bits from the URL's which prevents most search engine bots from spidering more than one level deep.
If you want a hack that allows to fully customize how the thread will look to the search engine bot, you should look at Overgrows more complete hack here.
The advantage of this hack over Overgrows is that it does not require htaccess support which can have performance issues. This could also be seen as a disadvantage though as my hack requires that you have mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache Server, whereas Overgrows method should work with just about any web host out there.
Take yer pick
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