Forum Changes

I have made quite a lot of changes to the forum this morning.

Hopefully if you are logged in, you will have a hard job spotting the changes, and even if logged out you will notice very little.

The idea though is that when a search engine looks at the site, it will be able to index the site more easily and hence when people do a web search, they will be more likely to end up here.

phpbb search engine optimization

This process called SEO or search engine optimisation for phpbb, is what you might call a neccesary evil for new web sites, until the news of the site gets out by word of mouth, we need to use every trick at our disposal to get noticed.

Hopefully the changes made will be problem free, but post in this forum if you see anything going wrong.

jema

Sarah D

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 9:58 am Post subject:
Am I correct in thinking that the Moderators' names have been removed from under the headings? Or is it just me...........

tahir

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 10:14 am Post subject:
So they have, looks a bit cleaner now

jema
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 10:18 am Post subject:

Lowlander wrote:

Am I correct in thinking that the Moderators' names have been removed from under the headings? Or is it just me...........

yep, removing excessive links and meaningless text is part of the process of trying to make things leaner/meaner more keyword rich, with less links going to places without much relevent text like members profiles.

jema

Sarah D

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 10:30 am Post subject:
And how am I, with my memory, going to remember which forums I'm moderating................

sean
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 10:32 am Post subject:
The system still shows mods when you go into a forum

jema
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 10:37 am Post subject:
I could make user profiles show waht you mod as well. This would be useful I think anyway. jema

Bugs

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 11:15 am Post subject:
I couldn't work out exactly what was different to begin with, but it was a lot easier on the eye, I think, search engines or no.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 11:37 am Post subject:
Clicking on latest post no longer takes you to the last post in the topic

jema
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 11:51 am Post subject:

Tahir wrote:

Clicking on latest post no longer takes you to the last post in the topic

Where do you see "latest post"?

jema

tahir

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 11:58 am Post subject:
In the topics column of list of topics brought up by clicking "View New Posts"

jema
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 12:28 pm Post subject:
Have removed the changes there, I don't think they were the key ones anyway. jema

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