GFF Search Engine Optimization

This feature has broken the View First Unread link at the top of every thread.

If you go onto a thread where the first unread is on a different page, it simply takes you back to the first post instead of the first unread. This is one of the most useful tools in all of vBulletin. :\

Edit: I should note that it didn't break it the same way for every thread. Post Your Desktop takes me to a post made on March 4th (the 104th out of 241st post). The G2 Werewolf thread puts me at the first post in the thread.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't understand how http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/bo...imization.html is any less uglier than http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2909 (it parsed my link to the other monstrosity :\ ). You can't even show the full link. That's a silly argument for the change.

Basically, from what I can tell, this plugin makes more pages get into search engines and improves keywords. The former makes it so that search engines have a link to the actual page instead of the archived page. Which is fine, but if the goal is massive amounts of users through the search engines (which I think many regulars here would be against, though I'm not really), it would be much more helpful if everything on the forum worked perfectly first. The latter doesn't even make sense here considering the utter hesitency to even put ads on the site, so I'll assume that's not it.

If this plugin is staying isn't there a way to make it so the URLs aren't so darn long? What if it was just /forums/<thread #>.html? That doesn't ruin the functionality of the plugin (spiders still see it the same way) and it gets the entire thread title out of the URL.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Google

Don't feel obligated to purchase a search optimization service. Some companies claim to "guarantee" high ranking for your site in Google's search results. While legitimate consulting firms can improve your site's flow and content, others employ deceptive tactics in an attempt to fool search engines. Be careful; if your domain is affiliated with one of these deceptive services, it could be banned from our index. Learn more about SEOs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You can still whine that View First Unread is broken. Makes me wanna say cry.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

By the way, it looks like View First Unread is working again. Thanks, whomever.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, now it is broken for me again. I don't know what it was about that particular session, but it worked in every single thread I used it on. Now I'm going back in time.

Someone fix it. ;_; Vote to remove SEO.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Aardark

I don't see what's everyone's big fucking problem.

Because it broke vBulletin. I sure wouldn't care if it hadn't have broken the thing many of us use on pretty much every single thread we visit.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Looks like it is working just fine, thanks!

I'm perfectly satisfied now.

FELIPE NO