Would googletap benefit or damage my sites seo

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:34 pm

My site has been around for awhile and has pretty good google placement i think. A lot of my site is indexed on google anyways. i recently modified a bunch of code to display unique titles in differnet parts of the site where there were none, that should help further.

So i don't know if it would benefit or damage my sites placements to install googletap. Some comments from people who have gone through this would be great.

my site is http://www.canadaka.net

also looking at the pags that google has lsited:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.canadaka.net&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N
a lot of my indexed pages are just the url, how can i fix this? or wsa it simply because there wasn't a unique title tag? the forum topics now have a dynamic title tags so i *think* slowsly they will be replaces on google.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12482

GoogleTap always helps - allows robots that won't go to .php files now go to the rewritten .html urls

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:09 pm

will the old url's still work?

but i guess i need to use the new urls in the site links, or the spiders wouldn't find them.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12482

GoogleTap should rewrite the standard Modules. You'd have to write your own rules for custom modules and addons.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:46 pm

but google's bot can parse .php files with variables correct?

so whats the advanatage if it can go through the ? and &

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12482

I don't believe Google parses URLs with variables. Thus the need for GoogleTap.

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:02 pm

that is not true, i get tons of good google links that are deep in my forums and gallery. that have many variable in the url. or just look at these:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.canadaka.net

Sergeant Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 97

It is the webserver that parses URL's the googletap engines is revolved around making the Links appear in usage with Mod Rewrite, this is where my problem arises..
I am using another solution to instead of mod rewrite and googletap but my URL's are being rewritten perfectly you can see for yourself

I currently have ISAPI Rewrite working correctly.. I need to modify the links in the Modules to a html page instead of a modules?name=AvantGo

For example all these work
http://area51portal.com/Forums.html
http://area51portal.com/Feedback.html
http://area51portal.com/index.html

however in the the modules block in the home page where you select where to go.. it displays a module to go to.. I how do I change each link to go to a *.html

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:11 pm

Hey Rockdata, I also use ISAPI Rewrite, and have some shorted urls like: www.canadaka.net/forums/

in fact I made an ISAPI Rewrite rule that turns each module to canadaka.net/modulename

But my problem is that after you visit the link the URL in th web browser shows the full path: www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Forums

I am wondering how you got yours to stick with the rewritten URL?

Sergeant Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 97

Go look at my page i am currently working on this as we speak... I have created a Custom Menu that goes to html instead of modules.php Apparantly im ashamed to say this as a php devolper myself.. but no one wants to look into issues with IIS 6.0 I have ISAPI Rewrite Fully working after much Isolated work with no help..

I dont understand why people care or act rude about what server you use.. this has nothing to do with research and devolepment.

Frankly I spent good money on windows 2003 server enterprise, It gets the job done and some people should just keep rude comments to themeselves...

Gimme about ten minutes and I will make this html main menu module availble for download on my forum at http://support.studio505.net You will need to disble your main modules module or make it visible to admins only...

PS this whole project i did with No Google Tap or Next Gen.. Just plan ole ISAPI Regex Rules

Sergeant Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 97

oH I forgot view the test menu at http://area51portal.com

and my yahoo messenger screen name is scorpion_spell

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:16 pm

I couldn't agree with you more about people making comments about what platform you are using, drives me NUTS!!

What were the ISAPI Regex Rules you made?

Sergeant Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 97

Hey PM on messenger im on right now...

scorpion_spell

and did you see my test menu at the bottom of the page of http://area51portal.com

PS im not using the ISAPI From Helicon Tech its a poor product I found a better working one..

Sergeant Joined: Aug 09, 2005 Posts: 97

I have created a ISAPI Rewrite system for Windows Server's to use with phpnuke. This is compatible with IIS

the Package is in our Downloads Section here on this site

This package was made Area 51 IT Solutions http://support.studio505.net Steve (AKA Rockdrala - Yahoo IM: scorpion_spell) becuase the next gen project doesnt support IIS 6.0
THis was tested on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise with IIs 6.0 and PHP Nuke 7.7 This is not google tap. Helicons Version of ISAPI Rewrite is Crap As Well.

copy and paste the A51rewrite.dll and the rewrite.ini into your C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv folder (THESE ARE IN THE PUT IN SERVER FOLDER IN THE PACKAGE)

After Copying and Pasting the Files in the "right click" on each one make sure the SYSTEM account has full permissions to each

Open IIS and go the websites container, right click on the website you want the filter applied to. Go to Properties.

Click on the ISAPI Filters at the top

Click the button Add

Type in A51rewrite

Browse to the Excutable C:\window\system32\inetsrv\A51rewrite.dll select it of course

click ok, then apply then go you your your web service extensions in IIS, Click on All Unknown ISAPI Extensions, then click ALLOW...

Go the top of IIS Right Click on your Server at the Top, Scroll Down To Restart IIS, Click It

Wait for it to restart

then test it by opening up a browser and typing http://yoursite.com/index.html

Taa daa! A working example can be found on my site at http://area51portal.com/index.html

HOWEVER PLEASE use my tech community for asking question... Under Server Category Windows

at http://support.studio505.net

Remember http://support.studio505.net <------- Join
http://area51portal.com/index.html <------- Example Site

NOW THE Menu PROBLEM!

Googletap and next gen modify the Navigation Menu (main modules block) to change the links to go th *.html Links for Mod_rewrite

THE SOLUTION! I have made a premade Navigation Menu... JUst drop the block included in this package block-html_menu.php in your Blocks Directory and activate it

from your Blocks nuke administration menu in phpnuke. Be Sure your disable the Modules Block, If you cant find

you modules block you may have already renamed it to something like Navigation Meu.

After you activate the new block click edit in your Blocks administration Menu and give it a friendly name like Navigation Menu or Site Directory.

Go to your main page and see how it looks.

If you want to add your own links just open up the block and copy and paste, I made that easy

Now if ya'll want to show your apprecation JOIN MY SITE! Its new and I need members, I dont care if you ever ever use it, just join baby join, lol

http://support.studio.net

Thank you all for using this, I worked weeks on it...

Steve aka Rockdrala

yahoo id scorpion_spell

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:42 am

very cool! I will check it out this weekend

I have just one question, cait handle per site rewrites?