Thread Preview - Detrimental to SEO.

[Mike]

I find the Thread View to be very useful and I could not get away with turning it off on my site as my members do like it.

lie and say vbulletin took it away in the last update.

[BamaStangGuy]

Well here is a thought....

Instead of removing such a useful (to me) addition to vBulletin for all members AND guests...

Why not just remove that option for guests only since that is all Search Engines see.

That way I can keep my thread previews and not have them impact my search engine ranking

[Keith Cohen]

That should be easy to do with a template conditional around the title parameter of the anchor tag.

[BamaStangGuy]

Done

[Ashley]

Go on then how did you do it.

[BamaStangGuy]

In the threadbit template find:

title="$thread[preview]"

Replace it with:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[posts]>0">title="$thread[preview]"</if>

[ADM]

Hmm I'm thinking of doing this as well, I've had the preview turned off from the start but I can see how it could be beneficial.

[Ashley]

Best of both worlds

cheers mate.

[jamesk]

Will vBSEO 2.3.3 include this 'guests only' conditional as an option?

[Juan Muriente]

Will vBSEO 2.3.3 include this 'guests only' conditional as an option?

It didn't... it now does

[Juan Muriente]

Clarification: Since vB provides the ability to disable this feature completely, we've added this feature as a 'guest only' disable in 2.4.0 - Thanks for the feature request!