Most links in SMF forum are listed as broken links
« on: February 29, 2008, 12:41:44 AM »
I have a list of about 13,000 broken links for SMF forum, that look like this:

5332    forum/index.php&topic=10380.0

However, in my actual site links look like this:

[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

And links like this work:

[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

The actual WORKING forum links listed are about 40 and look like this:

[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

I also tried with these settings in both Do not parse URLs: and Exclude URLs and very few forum posts were index, including some like this [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] :

sitemaps/
gallery/
sort,
action=
.new.html
.msg
prev_next
« Last Edit: February 29, 2008, 12:53:46 AM by doikasspiros »
Re: Most links in SMF forum are listed as broken links
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 02:53:07 PM »
I cannot find a way to index the forum with these settings; can you help indexing just the forum?
Re: Most links in SMF forum are listed as broken links
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 11:23:41 PM »
Please try to add this to "do not parse" and "exclude URLs" options as well:
Code: [Select]
index.php&
Re: Most links in SMF forum are listed as broken links
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2008, 03:48:12 PM »
Thank you.

I still have a problem indexing the forum; it indexes very few pages (I have 11000 topics and it indexes less than 100 pages). Can you please help? I can give you the script URL so that you can have a look.
Re: Most links in SMF forum are listed as broken links
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2008, 11:03:50 PM »
Yes, please PM me your generator URL and an example URL that is not included in sitemap and how it can be reached from homepage.