SEO

Is single post good for search engines to index? If not how can I stop them from indexing them

posts like this /12175-post1.html

don't re-write them, and then block showpost.php in robots.txt

i went as far as to remove showpost.php from my server.

Can u please expliain I don't really get what u said

expand out your re-writ options with the PLUS(+) to get the full options.

find the one for 'rewrite showpost?'
set to no.

add

Disallow: /forumpath/showpost.php

to your robots.txt file, obviously replacing /forumpath with yours (or nothing if in root)


And, so long as you are using the permalinks option (as here on vbseo, ie
Single post question )
the showpost file itself does nothing, so i deleted it from my server.

Thanks for the help

K.. Thanks I removed from my server which should solve the problem but I get this error when I try to view single posts now

Warning: main(/homepages/23/d214103588/htdocs/showpost.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/23/d214103588/htdocs/vbseo.php on line 1129

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/homepages/23/d214103588/htdocs/showpost.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /homepages/23/d214103588/htdocs/vbseo.php on line 1129

is this okay? and will spiders now stop crawling them

you need to also select the option for PERMALINKS instead of showpost.

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seems to be working now. I put it back on my server and selected the option you suggested.

Thanks a lot

Brian so I take it your saying its good to get rid of single posts from the index? Does this cause I problem when used with the sitemap addon?

yes. Showpost is duplicate content.

Theres an option in the sitemap settings to not include showpost url's as well to go along with this

Sorry for some reason my eyes were malfunctioning when I set those settings up.
Oh well its removed now, cheers