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, then the URL of the page must also be without f
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viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1

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, then the URL of the page must also be without f
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viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1
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viewtopic.php?t=1
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from the URL is already being considered and there is a corresponding ticket https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-16138Why isn't that the address bar to you?
In modern browsers, the search bar and address bar are combined and essentially the same.
You're right. There is no point for bots to crawl the search.php other than use up resources. The search page does not contain content to be indexed, it has links to follow, but that's kind of kind of the point of RSS feeds, you are able to submit RSS feeds to get crawled, and letting bots crawl your forums instead.Webliberty wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 2:47 pmbad for SEO since search robots have to crawl 2 times more pages, creating a load on the server.
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'U_CANONICAL' => generate_board_url() . '/' . append_sid("viewforum.$phpEx", "f=$forum_id" . (($start) ? "&start=$start" : ''), true, ''),
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'U_CANONICAL' => generate_board_url() . '/' . append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx", "t=$topic_id" . (($start) ? "&start=$start" : ''), true, ''),
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parameter to viewtopic.You have misunderstood the OP. He is not talking about search.php at all. He is talking about the browser navigation bar. Bots cannot and do not conduct keyword searches using search.php to identify topics - they crawl organically by following index, breadcrumbs, internal links etc.Peter77sx wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:38 pmYou're right. There is no point for bots to crawl the search.php other than use up resources. The search page does not contain content to be indexed, it has links to follow, but that's kind of kind of the point of RSS feeds, you are able to submit RSS feeds to get crawled, and letting bots crawl your forums instead.Webliberty wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 2:47 pmbad for SEO since search robots have to crawl 2 times more pages, creating a load on the server.