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SEO with phpbb message boards

I removed session IDs for Google and Slurp so that they can index every thread on the forum.

Go to includes/sessions.php and find

global $SID;

if ( !empty($SID) && !eregi('sid=', $url) )

Replace with

global $SID, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;

if ( !empty($SID) && !eregi('sid=', $url) && !strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'Googlebot') && !strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'slurp@inktomi.com;'))

So it should look like this:

function append_sid($url, $non_html_amp = false)
{
global $SID, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;

if ( !empty($SID) && !eregi('sid=', $url) && !strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'Googlebot') && !strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'slurp@inktomi.com;'))
{
$url .= ( ( strpos($url, '?') != false ) ? ( ( $non_html_amp ) ? '&' : '&' ) : '?' ) . $SID;
}

return $url;

I'm testing all my changes by comparing the modified www.learn-english-grammar.com to the unmodified www.learn-english-vocabulary.com. This one works. 53 grammar pages are indexed by Google and only 4 vocabulary pages (the ones with direct links to them from external sites).

Posted by James Trotta at July 27, 2004 2:21 AM