Any free search engine friendly forum written in ASP available?

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Any free search engine friendly forum written in ASP available?

fallcool

8:26 am on Jul 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

or do I ask too much?

Thanks!

steve

12:38 pm on Jul 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

snitz?

rogerd

1:08 pm on Jul 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

"Search engine friendly" is a relative thing - for starters, be sure you can disable session ids for spiders (or everyone).

Good page titles, short URLs, etc., also help. The best place to check out the SE issues for particular forum software is the software site's own forum. Just about every one I've visited has some discussion of making one's forum friendlier to spidering and indexing.

buksida

7:05 am on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

Have just downloaded Snitz myself, yet to install it though. Would be interested to get a few opinions from current users as I have no experience at all with ASP.

tgotch

12:36 am on Sep 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I use webwizguide forum on my site. Free, written in ASP, works pretty well.

Tim

rogerd

1:12 am on Sep 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, tgotch. What do the URLs look like? Are there sessionIDs? What has your experience been with WebWizGuide as far as getting pages indexed in SEs?

tgotch

1:25 am on Sep 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

URL:
mysite/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=2&PN=2003

SE:
Has been fair. I haven't had too much time to investigate this.

[edited by: rogerd at 2:05 pm (utc) on Sep. 14, 2004]
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rogerd

2:26 pm on Sep 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Those URLs don't look too bad - no apparent session IDs, though it's probably a good idea to check your forum using a spider simulator or similar. A couple of short query parameters is probably as good as it gets on a forum with dynamic pages. Rewriting or creating a static archive would probably perform better, but I don't know of an ASP forum with that functionality built-in.