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I've recently been working on integrating the new version of snitz (not yet live on my site) and I've focused on optimizing it for better placement of it's pages in the search engines. I've decided to write a post about some of the things I've modified. I know that SEO is a very subjective topic, and some of the methods I've used may or may not have an effect.
I've done the modifications on the following assumptions:
I've done the modifications on the following assumptions:
- all pages should have H1, Meta Tags, Title Tags, H2 that match (relatively close) and that are specific to the content on that page.
- Duplicate content, both from other sites, and within your own site, is looked negatively upon by search engines
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Looks good, Gary 
We're having a meeting here tomorrow on SEO after my one-day course last week and I'll be using your write up to back up my own notes.
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We're having a meeting here tomorrow on SEO after my one-day course last week and I'll be using your write up to back up my own notes.
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Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to thefact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
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Is also there an url rewriting mod for snitz?<
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Originally posted by neo-oneNot that I know of, and to be honest unless you enforce very strict topic title moderation it probably won't help much either. Forum URL's are not that complicated that they really require re-writing in order to get good search engine placement<
Is also there an url rewriting mod for snitz?
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You need root access to your server to do this with the ISAPI DLL. That is the most common .asp/windows hosting method of url re-writing.
Alternatively, it could be done with some simple coding, but you'd have to write every page, which would result in thousands of files on your host. Add a "url" field to the database tables for "xxxx_topics" Then, in post_info.asp, have it use objFSO.createfile (id use copyfile command on a template) and have it write a page matching the title, and replace(title," ","-") as the filename of the new page. Then, anytime a page is referenced anywhere, you'll need to call a function that takes the id of the post, looks up the corresponding URL (from the column you added to the table), and inserts it.
Since neither of these methods are really feasible for most snitz users, i've explained in the article that you need to ensure that your URLs are as clean as possible, and that all of your querystrings are in the proper order and the same order whereever they are listed.<
Alternatively, it could be done with some simple coding, but you'd have to write every page, which would result in thousands of files on your host. Add a "url" field to the database tables for "xxxx_topics" Then, in post_info.asp, have it use objFSO.createfile (id use copyfile command on a template) and have it write a page matching the title, and replace(title," ","-") as the filename of the new page. Then, anytime a page is referenced anywhere, you'll need to call a function that takes the id of the post, looks up the corresponding URL (from the column you added to the table), and inserts it.
Since neither of these methods are really feasible for most snitz users, i've explained in the article that you need to ensure that your URLs are as clean as possible, and that all of your querystrings are in the proper order and the same order whereever they are listed.<
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I think I've seen where some people have managed it with a custom-written 404.asp ... but again you need to be able to use a custom 404 AND you need really good error-checking.<