A Bit Off Topic But How Far?
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:12 am
So just rambling here but as we all know, SEO is a major deal now a days. So we all ponder what platform or method to use to get the best results.
I find it sad to see so many people jumping ship and going with strictly all WordPress. WordPress is a great platform and no one can deny that fact. I believe it was MUCH better before when the community had control of it. Now that it is a money grab, well, let's look at the newly introduced Gutenberg, YUCK!!!! Strictly my own opinion. However, what WordPress has done that no other platform has is introduce SEO friendly URLs (permalinks). Take this for example:
Would a bot rather look for your key words in this: https://www.xxxxxxx.com/wp/youre-just-blowing-smoke/
or e107 style for example (not so URL SEO friendly) : https://www.arabeska.sk/nasa-historia
or phpbb.com's method: https://blog.phpbb.com/2018/09/16/to-the-future/ (notice there blog posts only appear on 1 page .. cheaters
and
(index) https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=2489651
Integramod: http://www.integramod.com/forum/viewtop ... orum+block
SEO is a very big deal. You can easily see why WordPress is leaving everyone behind. The issue is they are also alienating their user base as well. People have been screaming about Gutenberg and it has fallen on deaf ears. It is garbage. It is specifically for content creators not content developers. I can not wait to see WordPress lose half it's Users because of this. It used be the Platform of Platforms back before money became the norm. Now that the money matters, the users do not. BUT they have perfected SEO and search bots love them, where as everyone else has fallen behind. Look at the links above and figure out how to make search bots figure it out.
Now I am not Mr Wizard by any stretch of the imagination but I would think search bots would much rather like something like the first set of permalinks verses all the rest of the examples I posted. Now I am not bashing anyone over the virtual head. I happen to think e107 is pretty close to a real nice platform. phpBB is what it is, a forum, plain and simple. It is not a platform. Integramod falls into the forum as well since it is built on phpBB. I am curious though how e107 can come close to nice permalinks and WordPress can nail them down and phpBB with all their endless supplies of developers can not get a permalink? That to me just makes absolutely no sense at all. I believe if phpBB could get it down then so could we here at Integramod. That alone would lead to bigger and better things. That and responsive templates as everyone is mobile (except my old geezer self)
Notice I have not mentioned the pay to play forums. my pockets are not deep enough to test them out and I do not torrent nor do I suggest anyone attempt to do it or talk about it here at Integramod.
Just my $0.02 worth Happy New Year to all!
**PLEASE NOTE**
The e107 link is to what would be compared to one of our (Integramod) Portal pages. The website I grabbed the link from did not have the forum plugin installed. If needs be I can install e107 to see how their forum plugin links to posts.
**EDIT AGAIN**
Ok here goes. This is a test board that I am sure will not be around for very long. Notice the link to the forum? it is still kind of long and drawn out but kind of key word..ish I suppose. I edited out the domain just because.
http://xxxxxxxx.com/e107/forum/general- ... is-a-test/
I find it sad to see so many people jumping ship and going with strictly all WordPress. WordPress is a great platform and no one can deny that fact. I believe it was MUCH better before when the community had control of it. Now that it is a money grab, well, let's look at the newly introduced Gutenberg, YUCK!!!! Strictly my own opinion. However, what WordPress has done that no other platform has is introduce SEO friendly URLs (permalinks). Take this for example:
Would a bot rather look for your key words in this: https://www.xxxxxxx.com/wp/youre-just-blowing-smoke/
or e107 style for example (not so URL SEO friendly) : https://www.arabeska.sk/nasa-historia
or phpbb.com's method: https://blog.phpbb.com/2018/09/16/to-the-future/ (notice there blog posts only appear on 1 page .. cheaters
and
(index) https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=2489651
Integramod: http://www.integramod.com/forum/viewtop ... orum+block
SEO is a very big deal. You can easily see why WordPress is leaving everyone behind. The issue is they are also alienating their user base as well. People have been screaming about Gutenberg and it has fallen on deaf ears. It is garbage. It is specifically for content creators not content developers. I can not wait to see WordPress lose half it's Users because of this. It used be the Platform of Platforms back before money became the norm. Now that the money matters, the users do not. BUT they have perfected SEO and search bots love them, where as everyone else has fallen behind. Look at the links above and figure out how to make search bots figure it out.
Now I am not Mr Wizard by any stretch of the imagination but I would think search bots would much rather like something like the first set of permalinks verses all the rest of the examples I posted. Now I am not bashing anyone over the virtual head. I happen to think e107 is pretty close to a real nice platform. phpBB is what it is, a forum, plain and simple. It is not a platform. Integramod falls into the forum as well since it is built on phpBB. I am curious though how e107 can come close to nice permalinks and WordPress can nail them down and phpBB with all their endless supplies of developers can not get a permalink? That to me just makes absolutely no sense at all. I believe if phpBB could get it down then so could we here at Integramod. That alone would lead to bigger and better things. That and responsive templates as everyone is mobile (except my old geezer self)
Notice I have not mentioned the pay to play forums. my pockets are not deep enough to test them out and I do not torrent nor do I suggest anyone attempt to do it or talk about it here at Integramod.
Just my $0.02 worth Happy New Year to all!
**PLEASE NOTE**
The e107 link is to what would be compared to one of our (Integramod) Portal pages. The website I grabbed the link from did not have the forum plugin installed. If needs be I can install e107 to see how their forum plugin links to posts.
**EDIT AGAIN**
Ok here goes. This is a test board that I am sure will not be around for very long. Notice the link to the forum? it is still kind of long and drawn out but kind of key word..ish I suppose. I edited out the domain just because.
http://xxxxxxxx.com/e107/forum/general- ... is-a-test/