Following this article. I would like to clarify that SEO is not FURL, FURL is part of SEO.
FURL is friendly url which are readable. For example: http://demo.com/hello_I_am_the_Content
Whereas SEO is optimising your pages to increase search engine visibility.
no really I just realised that some links doesn’t deserve SEO. For example on IPB’s user control panel. The only one who can see it is a registered user, and a search engine bot isn’t registered at all but only recognised.
So there is no point SEOing control panels or pages locked up to only registered users of the board. The only thing that needs to be SEO would be pages that guests can view. Such as content, post, replies, etc…
Thats one thing about seo. But nice and well formatted urls shows that you care. FURL would be term. FURL means friendly urls but what is so friendly about it? is it because it makes every page static? well no…
FURL is urls that are friendly, friendly to read, friendly to understand, etc… For example if you bookmarked a page and by accident you didn’t enter the title of the bookmark you would be shown the url in the place of the title in the list. Now if your link was like http://demo.com/index.php?id=2930ik12309&fsk=239kks it wouldn’t give a clue to the user who bookmarked it and would probably get lost in time.
But if your urls were friendly and meaningful such as: http://demo.com/the_world_has_a_meaning.html then the reader would know what the page contains.
Example as I am lazy at bookmarking pages I sometimes point my cusor on the the address field on my browser and just click the down arrow hopeing that the page I was looking for comes up. I know that a lot of you use it, as I do quite often. And sometimes you have 100’s of those urls with those really long urls which are being passed through and you just hope that one of them comes up as the right content you were looking for.
If you had a friendly url, people like me wouldn’t get lost in finding a good content you supplied.
Sorry for not being active lately but I am really busy with minerva. I have done quite a lot of changes and addition to the script.
Lately I have added the ability to allow certain urls to be parsed via the default index.php to allow some moderation and uploading processes to be taken as these areas are not as important as the content of a thread.
Next up I will try to optimise the title of threads and other areas so that it is more relevant to searches. That one should be easy to do.
Hopefully I will get something sorted by friday so that i can have a live copy running.
Hey all! I’ve been busy lately because I am working on Minerva. At the moment it is working quite well and I like it.
To allow you to track my progress use this RSS feed of my checklist: http://nitr021.tadalist.com/lists/public/564130
Today I start to impliment the friendly url in ipb. Atm it seems that it will be using some numbers to identify topics.
The way I have setup the htaccess it will allow each topic to handle a unique url uniform.
Regarding a beta or some really early stage release I am willing to take on a small amount of users through application which will be processed manually.
To apply you have to fill the following and send it to this email: nitr021@icelabz.net
Name:
Forum url:
Msn address:
Reason to join the beta/test team:
Past experience in ipb, Php, mysql, htaccess:
Minerva, named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, is a module which will optimize all your ipb pages.
I have started the works on it, and the friendly url seems pretty innovative. At the moment I am focusing everything on a really good search engine friendly URL. From what I have been playing around I hope I will be able to achieve full intergration within ipb.
Here is a bulleted list of things that I have played about with and will include in the module:
I hope this made you envy of this because I am releasing it for free, under my own license.
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