Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Prevent duplicate indexing while moving threads in phpBB

Apr 22nd, 2009
by Soumik.
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Moving a thread from one forum to another cause duplicate indexing issues in phpBB3. In such cases, both the old URL and the new URL return a “200 Found” header response, even though the thread doesn’t exist in the old forum. Ideally, the old URL should 301 redirect to the new URL. In this post [...]

Add keywords and description to phpBB’s index page without installing a mod

Apr 18th, 2009
by Soumik.
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In these days of intelligent search engines, meta keywords and descriptions do not play a major role in SEO. Crawlers are more interested in the contents of the page rather than it’s keywords and descriptions. However, some people might still want to add keywords and descriptions to their pages, seeing that search engines like Yahoo [...]