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hismightiness
8 years ago
Does anyone have any instructions on how to make the URL's much more SEO and human friendly?

Consider this example URL in my testing forum...

http://example.com/Forums/g/posts/m/3/New-site-going-live-but-need-advice 

Ideally, I'd like to get rid of /g/posts/m/3 since it doesn't at all do anything for the forum visitors or search engines. Is this possible?


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hismightiness
8 years ago
Am I the only person that would like to do this? This is the only true deal-breaker for me. The current URL format is not at all helpful for SEO, or human readability.
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Zero2Cool
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8 years ago
I'm not using DNN, but this is what my URL's look like.

You can do quite a bit with the URL Rewriter, I believe.

http://www.packershome.com/forum/posts/t25367-Zero-s-2016--Through-Week-12--NFL-Power-Rankings
hismightiness
8 years ago
Thanks for the reply, but I don't see anything specific in how the URL rewriting works in the DNN version of this solution. All I've found so far is how to change the encoding of the URL, not the formatting of it.
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hismightiness
8 years ago
I've found this other similar thread, but it seems that maybe there's a bug when used in DNN 8.xx?

http://yetanotherforum.net/forum/posts/m67771-URL-rewriting-on-DNN-8-and-higher 

I've added the following, but the URLs don't change.

    <add key="YAF.URLRewritingMode" value="" />
	<add key="YAF.EnableURLRewriting" value="true" />
	<add key="YAF.UrlRewritingFormat" value="advanced" />

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hismightiness
8 years ago
Is there anyone else here? Anyone else able to confirm my suspicions that this is a bug?
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8 years ago
Yes sorry that is the way the urls look right now in dnn. I put that on my to do list to optimize the urls.
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8 years ago

Ideally, I'd like to get rid of /g/posts/m/3 since it doesn't at all do anything for the forum visitors or search engines. Is this possible?

Originally Posted by: hismightiness 

I'm not sure if that is possible really the querystrings are needed for yaf.

hismightiness
8 years ago
A DNN-based URL provider should be able to take care of that for you.
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