dontcoz wrote:I know.. it's sort of OK i guess, it works but it's buggy for sure. none of the other MODs presented such a challenge to install either. it would be nice if it became an integral part of the next phpBB version. i keep seeing people post about how this forum has not problems without the SEO mod etc. but what they seem to not get is that there is a not-so-slight difference between a small, 100-1000 threads forum and this monster

Anyways, i don't want to sound ungrateful, it is an open source after all, and my comment is really just to underline the importance of this MOD.
I've added your disallow compilation to my robots.txt thanks again for posting it. will see what it does, I wish i understood better the inconsistency in disallowed links titles. but oh well! can't win them all;))
Is that why this board doesn't use such a static url mod? - Because of the sheer size of it?.. I hope the mod doesn't ruin boards as they grow, it's almost impossible to reverse the mod because of the amount of fixes applied to it.. well not impossible but way hard lol.
That robots file will work perfectly as I used a similar one on my article site and done the trick for me there

but as mentioned in my previous post, with some slight modification to the way the SEO_MOD works (keeping forum categories in the static url names) will add great seo benefits and help us to add "ALLOW" commands to the robots file very easily!
I don't think anyone here who has used this mod is ungreatful, it's a great mod and much respect to the author
However, if the following could be completed and added to the download file.. it would be much appreciated because we will all benefit (including those who are downloading it and installing on a daily basis):
1. Update all the bug fixes to the download file
2. Add forum categories existence in the static url (/forum/category-name/topic-title.php)
3. Maybe include a simple robots file to disallow bots crawling dynamic topic links & allow static urls.
I would do it if I knew how.