Please upgrade here. These earlier versions are no longer being updated and have security issues.
HackerOne users: Testing against this community violates our program's Terms of Service and will result in your bounty being denied.
[SEO] Share your changes for SEO*
Hi I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to share any changes they've made to their vanilla 2 install to improve search engine optimization? I also have been anticipating a plugin I think @tim mentioned called seo magic? If anyone's made changes that they want to share, I'd appreciate it.
Tagged:
1
Comments
I know that it is possible to rank well without considering these factors, but I was just wondering if anyone had done anything to further 'optimize' their sites.
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/611/seocompanion
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/540/discussionexcerpt2
Copy
/applications/vanilla/views/discussion/helper_functions.php
to/themes/YOUR_THEME/views/discussion/helper_functions.php
Search for "permalink" in the new file and delete these lines:
<span class="Permalink"> <?php echo Anchor(T('Permalink'), $Permalink, 'Permalink', array('name' => 'Item_'.($CurrentOffset+1), 'rel' => 'nofollow')); ?> </span>
Removing the permalinks solves the biggest part of vanilla's duplicate content problem. There are still many pages with the same content accessible through different URLs but as long as these URLs are not linked anywhere they shouldn't make a problem for Google.