January 11th, 2009
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Re: Why are member posted links converted to PAFOA referrers?
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Originally Posted by Pa. Patriot
Search engine optimization. Please don't "get around it".  |
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Originally Posted by danp
Oh that, my guess is that vBSEO does that so we can track outbound link statistics.
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Obviously your site and none of my business but this is what I was told when I was thinking of making this change to my board ...
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Any change from stock vB URL's is the worst possible thing you can ever do to your site.
There are about 100 reaons why they are so terrible, but the most important reason is once you change the URL format, you must use that same format forever. Every upgrade you ever do must consider that URL format.
You will have 100's if not 1000's of links across the web from people posting links to the site, posting links in one thread to another thread, etc.
If you change the stock URLs, you must keep your new URL format for life. It is a permanent change. And it's impossible to ensure your new URL's will always work with all future upgrades.
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Last edited by Sir Knight; January 11th, 2009 at 06:13 PM.
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