Isn't it easier to implement that [url=http://blog.lesperlesduchat.com/dev.php/2005/07/31/b2evolution_search_engines_optimization]b2evolution: Search Engines Optimization[/url] (discussed in the [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4459]Search Engines Optimization (SEO)[/url] thread) skin update that makes search engines indexing single posts?

Since I haven't (yet?) implemented the [url=http://www.plack.net/index.php/2005/08/24/auto_search_in_b2evolution]Plack.net Autosearch in b2evolution hack[/url], I can't talk about it...

kwa, in yor blog you suggest adding the code below to the favourite skin. I suppose you have to add that to the_main.php file and only there, right?:

<meta name="robots" content="<?php if( ( $disp!='posts' && $disp!='single' ) || ( $disp=='posts' && ( $paged>1 || $cat!='' || $m!=0 || ( is_array( $catsel ) && count( $catsel )>0 ) || $w >=0 || $s != '' ) ) ) echo( 'no' ); ?>index,follow"/>

Thanks whoo

gcasanova wrote:

kwa, in yor blog you suggest adding the code below to the favourite skin. I suppose you have to add that to the_main.php file and only there, right?:

<meta name="robots" content="<?php if( ( $disp!='posts' && $disp!='single' ) || ( $disp=='posts' && ( $paged>1 || $cat!='' || $m!=0 || ( is_array( $catsel ) && count( $catsel )>0 ) || $w >=0 || $s != '' ) ) ) echo( 'no' ); ?>index,follow"/>

You're right. My [url=http://blog.lesperlesduchat.com/dev.php/2005/07/31/b2evolution_search_engines_optimization]explaination[/url] wasn't clear enough. I've just updated it. (The above code asks search engines to index the blog homepage and each single post only, excluding any day, week, month, year and category summaries as well as other stat or profile pages.)

In order to speed up the update of your blog in the main three search engines, use the following links:

• [url=http://www.google.com/addurl/]Add your URL to Google[/url]

• [url=http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx]MSN Search URL Submission[/url]

[*][url=http://submit.search.yahoo.com/]Yahoo! Submit Your Site[/url] (you must create a free Yahoo! profile first)[/list:u]It is interesting to remove your stats pages from their index by submitting those pages (see [url=http://b2evolution.net/man/2004/12/29/control_referer_spam_howto]How to control referer spam hits from search engines[/url] for additional information about referrer spam and search engines.)

kwa, What would happen if I use your hack and also placks.net, at the same time? Same question for Tony froom plack.net?
Would it be like using two antivirus at the same time, that is very conficting and useless?

gcasanova wrote:

kwa, What would happen if I use your hack and also placks.net, at the same time? Same question for Tony froom plack.net?
Would it be like using two antivirus at the same time, that is very conficting and useless?

When applying the [url=http://www.plack.net/index.php/2005/08/24/auto_search_in_b2evolution]Plack.net Autosearch in b2evolution hack[/url] hack, you consider something like:

Hey! a stupid search engine sends people to my blog's year summary page where hundreds of posts appear! The guy who's going to see that page won't read anything and will leave my site. That's a waste of time for him and a waste of bandwith and CPU for my server! Now he's there, why not trying to keep him on my nice blog? Let's be smart and search a post on my blog with the requested keywords.[/list:u]When applying my own [url=http://blog.lesperlesduchat.com/dev.php/2005/07/31/b2evolution_search_engines_optimization]b2evolution: Search Engines Optimization[/url] robots meta hack:

<meta name="robots" content="<?php if( ( $disp!='posts' && $disp!='single' ) || ( $disp=='posts' && ( $paged>1 || $cat!='' || $m!=0 || ( is_array( $catsel ) && count( $catsel )>0 ) || $w >=0 || $s != '' ) ) ) echo( 'no' ); ?>index,follow"/>

you consider something like:
Hey! a stupid search engine sends people to my blog's year summary page where hundreds of posts appear! The guy who's going to see that page won't read anything and will leave my site. That's a waste of time for him and a waste of bandwith and CPU for my server! Before he comes there, why not trying to help search engines to index my blog correctly? Let's be smart and show search engine robots which pages to index. I believe the right pages to index are the blog's homepage and each single post page (permalink).[/list:u]When applying my own [url=http://blog.lesperlesduchat.com/dev.php/2005/07/31/b2evolution_search_engines_optimization]b2evolution: Search Engines Optimization[/url] redirect hack:

// Avoid useless heavy CPU and bandwith external links
if( !empty( $m ) && $m != 0 && strlen( $m ) <= 6 )
{
   // A large selection of posts has been requested and the
   // visitor comes from an external URI or a direct link

   // Is it an external URI?
   global $blog, $BlogCache;
   $current_Blog = $BlogCache->get_by_ID( $blog );
   $blogurl = $current_Blog->gen_blogurl();
   $pos = stristr( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ], $blogurl );
   if( $pos === FALSE || $pos > 9 )
   {
      // A year or month summary have been requested coming
      // from an external site.

      // Since this is a heavy page to display and often
      // useless for externally driven visitors, we redirect
      // them to the blog's homepage.
      header( 'Location: ' . $blogurl );
      die();
   }
}

you consider something like:
Hey! a stupid search engine sends people to my blog's year summary page where hundreds of posts appear! The guy who's going to see that page won't read anything and will leave my site. That's a waste of time for him and a waste of bandwith and CPU for my server! Whatever I do to make my blog indexed correctly, some search engines (espacially Google Images and AOL Images) still indexing those huge pages. Let's redirect those people to my blog's homepage.[/list:u] In a perfect world, where search engines index all the web pages in real time, you can consider my robots meta hack being enough and implementing anything else would be a waste of time. However, since search engines take days to months to update (especially Google Images and AOL Images), it is interesting to consider the [url=http://www.plack.net/index.php/2005/08/24/auto_search_in_b2evolution]Plack.net Autosearch in b2evolution hack[/url] as well. My redirect hack becomes then useless. However, when using the [url=http://www.plack.net/index.php/2005/08/24/auto_search_in_b2evolution]Plack.net Autosearch in b2evolution hack[/url], consider there might be no post in your whole blog including all of the originally requested keywords... Finally, after implementing my robots meta hack, you can consider using Google or Yahoo as your blog default search engine with pertinent results. (Google needs a couple of days to index a new post after [url=http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl]submission[/url]. I don't know indexing performance using [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4466]Google Sitemaps[/url].)

Best explanation in the whole forum! Thank You