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why did google index this page?

This is a discussion on why did google index this page? within the Analysis: Traffic & SERPS forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; Originally Posted by Shadab Found. It's some sort of 'short-cut' URL by vBulletin, used by the ForumJump menu. There are ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadab View Post
    Found. It's some sort of 'short-cut' URL by vBulletin, used by the ForumJump menu. There are a bunch of other shortcuts available too (via forumdisplay.php). Like :

    /forumdisplay.php?f=home , ?f=search , ?f=pm , ?f=wol , ?f=cp , ?f=subs

    And, lol, even : /forumdisplay.php?f=-1 (that goes to Forumhome)

    [ forumdisplay.php ; Line numbers 70-80 ]
    Are there *physical* links to these locations anywhere in the forums? (How can I reach those links using forumjump? all links in forumjump appear 301-redirected to me)

    This needs addressed as part of vBSEO's absolute link consensus approach.

    In theory, with vBSEO fully enabled for all URL types, one should not need to disallow anything through robots.txt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Juan Muriente View Post
    Are there *physical* links to these locations anywhere in the forums?
    Nope, no physical <a ...> links are present. But can GoogleBot follow simple GET forms ?
    Found a very old thread at WW (Googlebot crawling GET forms with one variable?) where users report that it does.

    EDIT: Official post : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...tml-forms.html

    Quote Originally Posted by Juan Muriente View Post
    (How can I reach those links using forumjump? all links in forumjump appear 301-redirected to me)
    Not all links in Forumjump seem 301 redirected.
    The links under the <optgroup ...> of "Forums" are 301 redirected to the vbseo'd format. For example :
    - Click 'vBSEO Announcements' option

    - GET Form Submitted : /forumdisplay.php?f=5

    - 301 Moved Permanently : to /f5/

    - 200 OK : /f5/
    But those under the <optgroup ...> of "Site Areas" (total 6 options) aren't 301 redirected in the first step. For example :
    - Click 'Forums Home' option

    - GET Form Submitted : /forumdisplay.php?f=home

    - 302 Found : to /forums.php

    - 301 Moved Permanently : to /forums/

    - 200 OK : /forums/

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    dont know if this will help
    but on my forum , if you go in a forum at the bottom you get the Display Options for the forums
    the show threads button goest to forumdisplay.php

    looking if i find more such links.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonus Paradise View Post
    dont know if this will help
    but on my forum , if you go in a forum at the bottom you get the Display Options for the forums
    the show threads button goest to forumdisplay.php

    looking if i find more such links.....
    Can i disable this for guests?
    Cant find the option, anyone knows please?

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    but on my forum , if you go in a forum at the bottom you get the Display Options for the forums the show threads button goest to forumdisplay.php
    Yes, I guess those are perfectly fine.
    as they are thread sorting options.

    Can i disable this for guests? Cant find the option, anyone knows please?
    vbseocp -> Guest-Only Enhancements -> Remove Forumjump for guest visitors

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadab View Post

    vbseocp -> Guest-Only Enhancements -> Remove Forumjump for guest visitors
    The forum jump is removed for guests already since long time

    its the display options what i meaned
    I attach a screenshot
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails forumdisplay.jpg  

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    those should be nofollowed anyway

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    Quote Originally Posted by briansol View Post
    those should be nofollowed anyway
    yes they are,
    well, I really have no idea why google does index such a page
    I just wait now and hope they drop it again,


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    "forumdisplay.php?f=home" - Google Search

    18 forums in the top 20 results are running vBSEO.

    - 13 of those are running vbseo 3.2
    - 4 of them didn't report any vbseo version in footer (maybe branding free)
    - 1 is running Zoints
    - 1 is running some unknown URL rewriting solution.

    Strange, as this is a stock vBulletin problem; not vbseo's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by briansol View Post
    forumdisplay.php should be in your robots file as a disallow anyway
    Out of curiosity, why?

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