SEO-friendly URLs

breatheheavycom - 2-12-2012 at 10:29 PM

I think it'd be awesome if the URLs for threads show the subject line.

For example, instead of:

http://www.breatheheavy.com/exhale/topicadmin.php?tid=480705

It'd say:

http://www.breatheheavy.com/exhale/February-11-Britney-At-Pr...

lottos - 2-13-2012 at 04:51 AM

There is some prior chatter about this here:

http://forums.xmbforum2.com/viewthread.php?tid=774638

You could set up another test forum and try the implementation to see if it works.

miqrogroove - 2-13-2012 at 05:55 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lottos

There is some prior chatter about this here:

http://forums.xmbforum2.com/viewthread.php?tid=774638

The block of code I'm seeing in that thread doesn't add subjects in URLs. It was designed to change viewthread.php?tid=123 into view123.html and from an SEO point of view that is a semantically worthless difference. Fully upgrading the URL structure in XMB would involve replacing about 10-20% of the existing code base.