Static URLs?

[Rukas]

How would I go about converting the dynamic URLs to static URLs for better search engine optimization?

[GT1]

This is my biggest worry/question as well...I have implemented cmps on a test basis, but I do not want to switch over until I can figure out something to fix this issue....we have a top 3-5 search engine ranking right now and not interested in giving it up.

[Tourmeister]

Howdy,

No word on this? On my forum, the dynamic link for the "New Posts" only works when users are actually in my /forums directory. If they are anywhere else, it looks for the search.php in the directory they are in. I went into the NavBar template and changed every single reference of a link to search.php to hardcode back to the /forums directory and that still did not fix it! What template to I have to look in to find that link?!

Thanks!

[Brian]

Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Navbar Replacements

Just make sure that 'search.php' is listed with the filenames there and it will prefix the link with your forum's URL.

[Tourmeister]

Howdy,

Brian, that did not work for me. What I did not realize was that the "Unread Posts since last visit" link on the Navbar (over by the username and PM info) was a plugin installed by the guy that installed my CMPS for me. Once I found that out, I edited the XML for that plugin and all is well now.

Here is what it had:

<a href="search.php">

So as I changed to the CMPS in the root dir, it looked there for it. When I changed to the /photopost dir, it looked for it there. Here is what I have changed it to:

<a href="http://twtex.com/forums/search.php>

I tried the following, but neither worked:

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome]search.php>
and
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome]/search.php>

Not sure why using the variables would not work as I am not real familiar with php or how VB uses the variables (not a programmer at all since my Fortran and Assembly languages days way back...). Does the bburl variable not include the "http://" part of the address?

Adios,

[Brian]

You should be able to use $vboptions[bburl]/search.php. The $vboptions[forumhome] variable is just the name of your forum's main page and is not necessary unless you're trying to direct people to your main forum page. And unless you've changed the name to something other than index.php, it's not even necessary then.

[Tourmeister]

Ahh... okay. I will try that just to see if it works then. Thanks!