Vigil on 9/4/2007 at 08:50
I like what Ziemanskie suggests, as I personally like being able to chop directories off the URL to get to the next-highest 'section' of a website, and I expect this is quite a common habit. But this is stymied by having the post number itself as a directory level, plus it ends up looking dreadfully messy.
Ziemanskye on 9/4/2007 at 14:44
Is it possible to count relatively on this as well?
Like
]www.ttlg.com/forums/forums-and-ttlg-website-network/friendly-urls-options-and-idea/15
Takes you to the 15th post in the thread - it does the icky internal post number after the fact, and as much as possible does away with the thread number in favour of the name (resolve by most recent when there's a conflict?)
Of course that kind of thing might be evil to make work and do horrid things to the search profile.
And, while I'm here, how much of a difference would it make if there was someway to have search engines see only the first post in any thread? Like from that point of view that all it returns is ttlg.com, the topic, and the thread name - I don't know if they go through posts or how generally it works, but thinking as a user wanting Google to just give one response rather than a +1 for every post in the thread as a result.
Vigil on 9/4/2007 at 21:38
Google doesn't. It shows you the one or two most relevant results in that thread, and hides the too-similar ones.
Ziemanskye on 10/4/2007 at 09:08
But there's no way to stop it from even seeing the "duplicates" (as extra posts) is there?
