ways to improve what SEs index

My problem is removing the link from this line of code in template forumhome_lastpostby:

PHP Code:

        <phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&amp;f=$lastpostinfo[forumid]" 2="$lastpostinfo[lastposter]">$vbphrase[by_x]</phrase> 


I only want to show the username.

Any help is appreciated

This is how I have done it, this way only removes the link for guests (userid 0) see here and members still see the link.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] != 0"><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&amp;f=$lastpostinfo[forumid]" 2="$lastpostinfo[lastposter]">$vbphrase[by_x]</phrase><else />by $lastpostinfo[lastposter]</if>

If you just want text for all usergroups.

replace

<phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&amp;f=$lastpostinfo[forumid]" 2="$lastpostinfo[lastposter]">$vbphrase[by_x]</phrase>

with

by $lastpostinfo[lastposter]

I have everything done I wanted to do in forums and links.

I am very happy with what I am seeing much lower page sizes, lots less links.

100 less links of a full page of 20 threads in forum display by removing on each thread. Started by, first new post (and that will always be available to bots because it will not keep a cache), go to last post, last post by and number of replies.

Forum home has around 30 less links on the page.

One thing I have tried to do is remove all links to member profiles to bots I think I have achieved this (apart from vba cmps and vbarcade).

The other thing I think I have achieved is to remove all signs off duplicate content (again apart from vba cmps and vbarcade).

Show thread did not have to many links to remove put again I took away what I considered unneeded.



Next is homepage and arcade.

Thanks for the help :-)
I saw in your forum 'Reply with Quote' buttons in posts.
I have removed it, since guests can't use it, they don't need them.

I will not edit arcade templates because it's only for registered users.

By the way; you have an error in arcade main page:

PHP Code:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /vbshout.php on line 288 


Cheers mate I had not noticed that.

Originally Posted by infordig

I saw in your forum 'Reply with Quote' buttons in posts.
I have removed it, since guests can't use it, they don't need them.

Just one comment on this.

If you remove these buttons, it is possible that users that have no experience with boards will not be understanding how they can reply. They don't realize they need to register. If they would click 'reply' the message 'You need to register to reply' would come up.

So this is why vbulletin keeps them visible for guests.

Be carefull what you remove, there is something like removing too mutch, while focussing on SEO for vbulletin.

For these things I would use rel="nofollow" for links and buttons.

I totally agree - that's why most (if not all of them) will be options in the next gen of vbseo, 2.5.x.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

I totally agree - that's why most (if not all of them) will be options in the next gen of vbseo, 2.5.x.

I truly believe in what I did now. The bots go deep. PR 4 for both forum home and links home. 30 - 50 referrals in Google per day (lets remember my site is only 3 1/5 months old).

It makes sense... it increases the CtoC ratio, cleans up pages and all around, reduces all these elements that are repeated all throughout the site. This is key, as you are making every page more unique. -Again, these removals will be options so it should suit every taste

Originally Posted by Zooman

I truly believe in what I did now. The bots go deep. PR 4 for both forum home and links home. 30 - 50 referrals in Google per day (lets remember my site is only 3 1/5 months old).

You did a very good job, I used some of your ideas, and logically it should be a lot better the way things are now. Just some of the buttons should stay imo, I also have the online users and stats visible for guests on my fitness board. The first thing they look at to find out if the board is busy, people tend to stay longer on busy looking boards I think, but Juan is right, it's personal taste

If you want to have a look how it is here

Thanks

I was going flying colours and then my host went down for 6 days and Google all but dropped my site from the serps :(.

Originally Posted by dutchbb

You did a very good job, I used some of your ideas, and logically it should be a lot better the way things are now. Just some of the buttons should stay imo, I also have the online users and stats visible for guests on my fitness board. The first thing they look at to find out if the board is busy, people tend to stay longer on busy looking boards I think, but Juan is right, it's personal taste

If you want to have a look how it is here

Thanks

I have so few members at the moment it is not worth it, once I have a decent amount of members I may show members in the last 24hrs

I have 4 things left to do and I am done.

Take your time have a good luck what has been done if you have the devolpers bar in your browser take a little bit of time to see the site without CSS and then look at yours and see the difference. Nothing was hard the only issue was just how much needed taking away.

I removed the "Last Post" column on forumhome for guests. It's so dynamic and doesn't really help to index pages or send pr on a busy board.