Oleg wrote:Pony99CA wrote:
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http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2100309&title=SEF_SEO_URLs
I don't expect SEO people to be happy with this.
Perhaps it's not what they're going for, but even still when I see human-readable URLs on other boards, vBulletin for instance, both the topic/forum ID and the topic/forum title are still included in the URL. Take this URL from vBulletin.com's forum:
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https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/148-vBulletin-4-Suggestions
The first 3 numbers are the forum ID. The rest is a human-readable title of the forum.
Now look at this:
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https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/148
That goes to exactly the same place.
As does this:
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https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/148-BLAH
I don't see how that is really too much different than what Steve suggested, except that it uses a mod_rewrite-powered directory appearance rather than the original query string appearance. In either case, the readable part is meaningless.
EDIT: To note, providing only a string in the above URL without the ID does not result in the search behavior described by Steve. I think that having an "Oops, I couldn't find that (forum/topic), perhaps one of these is what you are looking for?" message with a short list of possible matches would be a nice improvement to the existing idea.