My Settings.. Need Suggestions

Define Forum Path Title Bits - [forum_id]-[forum_title]

Forum URL Format - [forum_title]/

Forum Index Page URL Format - forum[forum_id]/index[forum_page].html

Individual Announcement URL Format - [forum_title]/announcement-[announcement_title].html

Multiple Announcements URL Format - [forum_title]/announcements.html


Thread URLs (Important)

Thread URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_id].html

Multiple Page Thread URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_page]-[thread_id].html

'Last Post in Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_id]-last-post.html

'Newest Post in Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_id]-new-post.html

'Go To Post in Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-post[post_id]-[thread_id].html

Multiple page 'Go To Post in Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-post[post_id]-[thread_page]-[thread_id].html

'Previous Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_id]-prev-thread.html

'Next Thread' Redirect URL Format - [forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_id]-next-thread.html

Need some suggestions please.. How about adding a Page(as text) before [thread_page]

Hi!

adding the "page" prefix for "Multiple Page Thread URL Format" is a good idea, because currently confusion is possible when thread title ends with a number.

For instance, the thread title is "Happy New Year 2006". Then main thread URL is:
http://www.example.com/forum-name/ha...2006-1234.html (where 1234 is a thread id).
However, this URL will be parsed as "Multipage" with page number = 2006.

And this URL format allows to avoid this:
[forum_title]/[thread_title]-page[thread_page]-[thread_id].html

Does it make sense?

It sure does.. I will implement it..

Rest are fine?

Yes, others looks fine

Hi, I had about the same settings as you did, but I discovered that if I had to change the forums; ie. change names, merge or divide, it`s very destructive to apply foumnames before the threads in the url. Not only must all your threads in that forum be crawled again, all links to those threads are now invalid.

If you have the forum id and the thread id somewhere in the url then it doesn't matter if you change forum names or thread names they'll be redirected to the proper url.

You can manually add entries to your .htaccess file to do 301 redirects also, if you want to use just the forum name. I've changed several of my forum names and this method works well.