Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:44 amI posted a thread
Topic. Not even phpBB2 used the wrong term.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:44 amI have run a forum
A board.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:44 amputting quotes around a phrase
A phrase is only that by quotes. A "phrase without quotes" is a bunch of keywords (implicitly using the AND operator). Are you sure you understand search engines?
Welcome to the internet, it works thru links. Moreover you should use the "verbatim" setting, which will even show more results:
https://www.google.fi/search?q=site:www ... /&tbs=li:1
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:44 amone of the 11 sitemaps does have 3,168 warnings
phpBB has no sitemaps, you must be referring to something which is unknown to us.
Bing is listed twice - inspect both and check the data against a default installation.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:19 amConfigure My Site -> Ignore URL Parameters
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If you don't understand URIs then don't fiddle with them. Try accessing this topic without parameters
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. But I'm aware that today's internet browsers even tend to hide URI parameters, so that might misteach people on how internet addresses work. Though you have 11 years of experience.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:53 pmCode: Select all
Disallow: /ppp/cache/
Disallow: /ppp/files/
Disallow: /ppp/includes/
Disallow: /ppp/store/
This is pointless, as nobody has access to those paths anyway - each of those should have a
.htaccess already.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:53 pmCode: Select all
Disallow: /ppp/config/
Disallow: /ppp/develop/
Disallow: /ppp/index.html
These are unknown to
phpBB.
That was never meant to be published online - just delete the folder.
This is pointless: if that path would exist then
phpBB would resist to have an accessible board. Remove both: this entry and the potential folder.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:53 pmCode: Select all
Disallow: /ppp/common.php
Disallow: /ppp/config.php
This is pointless: you're just telling everyone that these files exist, while in reality nobody would have ever known, since they aren't linked anywhere.
Frank Rizzo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 2:53 pmCode: Select all
Disallow: /ppp/search.php
Disallow: /ppp/style.php
A highly questionable approach: search queries like "show all posts of a user" won't be indexed anymore, and all styles in your cached search engine results might be missing as well.
Wildcards in the "disallow" directive are interpreted differently, better avoid them.
Regular expressions are not supported. And if they would, then the
?
must be escaped. No, everything you put up here is a literal, so this given line will never match.