| How to Solve Common SEO Problems with JReviews, Fireboard and MosTree |
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| Monday, 12 November 2007 | |
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Lots of Joomla components produce 100s and sometimes 1000s of unnecessary extra URLs that are then indexed by Google. A simple example is Mostree which is a very robust component but because it was built in pre-Ajax days, it creates separate 4 extra pages for each listing: recommend, rate, review and report listing.
In this post we're using JReviews, Fireboard and MosTree as examples. You can cut-and-paste the rules from this post into your robots.txt file. However, please read the "important notes" section first. Important notes1) If you add a rule that contains wildcards (*) then you are removing all the URLs from Google that contain that word. For example:
2) These rules are for sites with Search Engine Friendly URLs turned on. Change the rules to fit your own uppercase / lowercase settings.
3) Be careful. Robots.txt files can have a big impact on your site.
Mosets TreeDisallow: /*review*/Disallow: /*rate*/ Disallow: /*recommend*/ Disallow: /*report*/ Disallow: /*Owner*/ Disallow: /*Contact*/ Disallow: /*List_Alpha*/ Disallow: /*New_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Featured_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Popular_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Most_Reviewed*/ Disallow: /*Most_Favoured*/ Disallow: /*Top_Rated*/ Disallow: /*Most_Rated*/ Disallow: /*Recently_Updated*/ Disallow: /*Add_Category*/ Disallow: /*Add_Listing*/ JReviewsDisallow: /*list*/Disallow: /*myreviews*/ Disallow: /*reviewrank*/ Disallow: /*rss*/ Disallow: /*order*/ Disallow: /option=com_jreviews/ FireboardDisallow: /profiles/Disallow: /*action=reminder*/ Disallow: /*action=stats*/ Disallow: /*;msg*/ Any Kind of Calendar or Photo Gallery Disallow: /calendar/
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Comments (7)
  written by Brian Teeman, November 12, 2007
Why do you want to disallow the calendar and photo gallery as a whole?
 written by trichnosis, November 13, 2007
@Brian Teeman: As i know , google and the other search engines is avoiding the calendar crawls. calender crawls will not bring you anythink
 written by Tom, November 13, 2007
Nice post! I run the latest version of m tree and it now has rel='nofollow' on many of the links such as recommend etc. I'll still be applying a few of the other rules to my robots.txt file though!
I'm also looking into modding fireboard to include rel='nofollow' on all external links posted in forum and sigs, I'll report back if successful!  written by Steve Burge, November 13, 2007
Hi Brian
Sorry - I should have explained that. Trichnosis thinks like me. Google has a habit of crawling 1000s of pages in most calendars like this poor guy: http://forum.joomla.org/index....294.0.html Photo galleries are normally text-free or text-light and offer little SEO value. Hi Tom Thats great news - I hadn't checked out the Mostree update. That would be a nice Fireboard touch and would certainly help cut spam. I know some advanced forums (VBulletin etc) are looking into adding nofollow to normal signature links and removing it from trusted users. written by Igor Dernov, November 15, 2007
User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/ Disallow: /cache/ Disallow: /components/ Disallow: /editor/ Disallow: /help/ Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /language/ Disallow: /mambots/ Disallow: /media/ Disallow: /modules/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /installation/ Disallow: /*review*/ Disallow: /*rate*/ Disallow: /*recommend*/ Disallow: /*report*/ Disallow: /*Owner*/ Disallow: /*Contact*/ Disallow: /*List_Alpha*/ Disallow: /*New_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Featured_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Popular_Listing*/ Disallow: /*Most_Reviewed*/ Disallow: /*Most_Favoured*/ Disallow: /*Top_Rated*/ Disallow: /*Most_Rated*/ Disallow: /*Recently_Updated*/ Disallow: /*Add_Category*/ Disallow: /*Add_Listing*/ Write comment
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