why did google index this page?

Originally Posted by Shadab

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.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

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

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

(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/

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.....

Originally Posted by Bonus Paradise

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?

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

Originally Posted by Shadab

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

those should be nofollowed anyway

Originally Posted by briansol

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,

"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.

Originally Posted by briansol

forumdisplay.php should be in your robots file as a disallow anyway

Out of curiosity, why?