The Virtual HTML feature?

Hello, I'm curious about this Virtual HTML feature which seems interesting.

What is the benefit difference of making a notice into an image or having it as virtual html?

Which is more reliable? Having just a picture display or virtual html?

Are they equal except this feature allows for easy support for removing stuff you don't wish to be shown on Google?

the long and short of it is that you won't have to make an image for everything

What the virtual HTML does is it outputs the regular markup as document.write() javascript lines. Bots don't read javascript.

Is this the same thing as adding .html to the end of the showthread pages?

I'm new to SEO, so forgive my "newbie" question. What does adding .html to the showthread pages do?

Thanks!

It is all personal prefrance. If you want to remove the .html and just use a / at the end, then you must go into your vbseocp.php and manually insert how you want it shown.

It is advised that you do not change once this has been set (I know that yours has not been set yet as I am doing the install for it)

Originally Posted by Sherwin

Is this the same thing as adding .html to the end of the showthread pages?

I'm new to SEO, so forgive my "newbie" question. What does adding .html to the showthread pages do?

Thanks!

No, this has nothing to do with page extensions.


Virtual does this.


instead of

<div> some code that you don't want indexed </div>

it replaces with it

<script type="text/javascript">
document.writeln("<div>some code....</div>");
</script>

The user sees the same thing on the page.
The bots (and search engines) don't render the javascript, thus, keeping them on your IMPORTANT content, not the bloat.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

It is all personal prefrance. If you want to remove the .html and just use a / at the end, then you must go into your vbseocp.php and manually insert how you want it shown.

It is advised that you do not change once this has been set (I know that yours has not been set yet as I am doing the install for it)

Thank you. Is there any benefit to adding the .html over just having a / at the end?

Brian once said he does not like any extensions because one day they will become obsolete.

I am not sure if there is a proven method about this though.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Brian once said he does not like any extensions because one day they will become obsolete.

I am not sure if there is a proven method about this though.

Thank you.

A friend directed me to this link here at vBSEO.

Post number two is what I was talking about.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

Post number two is what I was talking about.

Thanks Michael! Your help is much appreciated.

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.

The w3 recommends pages that will NEVER change.

The common example i use all the time is cgi.

8 years ago, before php was widely popular, a lot of scripts ran as cgi.
Thus, you have site.com/cgi-bin/script.pl
Today, those scripts are basically obsolete, and with it, the url structure chosen is also obsolete.

site.com/script/ COULD be running cgi/perl, php, jsp, asp, etc etc and the url will never change.

.html may go away too.

html is turning more and more modular into xml as the years go on. We may see .html as we know it slowly disappear.
If you chose a .html rewrite extention, you will lose your 'cool uri' when it comes time to change to a new technology.

Folders aren't going anywhere. /folder/, no extention, is my preferred choice

Good post, thanks