vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

[Adult SEO]

Dear vBSEO support,

I was wondering if it's possible to configure custom Forum titles for each forum.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello Jan,

yes - you can use "forum slugs" feature for this, manually defined in config_vbseo.php:

    $vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
12=>'forum-tite'
    ); 

where 12 is forum ID.

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

Thanks for the reply!

Where do I find vbseo_config.php?

Also, what will happen with post titles within the forum, will they use the custom title as extension also?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

config_vbseo.php file resides in includes/ folder.

The changes affect all URL formats that include [forum_title] part.

[Adult SEO]

Where should I enter the code?

And will this code disapear when editing from the adminpanel?

Is it not possible to enter this code via the adminpanel?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Adult SEO]

I get redirected to this: http://www.papegaaienforum.com/Ara%2...0liefhebbers!/

As it seems these variables are used in the url

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

And will this code disapear when editing from the adminpanel?

Is it not possible to enter this code via the adminpanel?

Custom forum titles should be entered manually in config_vbseo.php file.
FIND:

    $vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
    ); 

REPLACE WITH:

    $vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
1 => 'forum-title',
2 => 'another-forum-title'
    ); 

the left part is forum ID, the right part is forum title *as it appears in URL*.

[Adult SEO]

Ok, but what if I want a title like "XXX Forum - The forum for vBSEO experts!"

?

[Adult SEO]

Could someone please answere me fast if it's possible at all via vBSEO? Otherwise I will write a vB MOD for it: Custom Forum Titles - vBulletin.org Forum

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Forum slugs are used to define custom forum titles in URLs, but seems like you mean page title? vBSEO doesn't do it.

[Ace Shattock]

Custom Page Titles could be done through Template Modification.

[Adult SEO]

Well, it's a lack of vBSEO as titles are verry verry important for SEO.

I will develop a mod wich will enable you to configure a custom title as if it's available by default in vBulletin.

I've described how I will do it here as I was waiting for confirmation if vBSEO has support for it: Custom Forum Titles - vBulletin.org Forum

I will post here when it's done.

[Ace Shattock]

I still don't get it.

By default, ALL forums have their title in the <title> attribute, when viewing forumdisplay.php.

If you wanted to add " - blah blah, the forum for blah blah" for selcted forums, you would just use

<title>$foruminfo[title]<if condition="in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(1,2,3,4,5))"> - blah blah, the forum for blah blah</if></title> 

[Keith Cohen]

I think he wants to be able to have text in the <title> tag that is different than the title he has set for that forum in Forum Manager. Not sure why though....

[Adult SEO]

Custom titles wich are not simular in format are better then simular/general titles.

For example:

Forum URL: /agaporniden/
Forum Title: Agapornis Forum, The forum for lovebird lovers!

And

Forum URL: /agapornis-soorten/
Forum Title: Agapornis Soorten, All information about the 9 lovebird species!

And

Forum URL: /off-topic/
Forum Title: The place to chat about anything

And

Forum URL: /business-concepts/
Forum Title: Business Concept Discussions, meet and greet with other business guru's!

etc.

This would work better then:

Forum URL: /business-concepts/
Forum Title: Business Concepts - Some Main Forum Title Wich Might Be Irrelevant

Seperating the URL from the title also enables the use of 2 premium keywords without spamming in one of the locations as some keywords actualy mean the same so you couldn't write (in my case) "agapornis agaporniden dwergpapegaai forum" as all 3 keywords mean the same.

So with a custom title I would be able to address both keywords without spamming.

And there are a lot of other efforts, as the ability to change the title from time to time as this has proven to be effective also.

With titles based on the URL this won't be effective or possible.

The solution to manualy edit templates is ofcourse not a real solution, on my parrot forum for example for wich I use vBSEO I have over 500 forums! (all parrot species).

So that won't be doable, I need to be able to do it from the forum manager within vBulletin or other easy to use admin.

Titles are really verry important for SEO.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap