WOW!! Google search

[Deques]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wo ... gle+Search

check the second hit!!

Any way to get to the first hit?!

[Tallon]

WOW!!!! That is so awesome. Go us!!!! After all the years of board crahsing and bugging, our hard work has paid off. I could just cry. I would like to thank my friends, my director, my agent, and everyone else that made this dream come true.

[Dr. Sheexy]

We still gotta get up there on the searches like "Seiken Densetsu" and the other games, heh.

I wonder how we can pull that off?

[Kassidy]

Google gives priority to words held in the TITLE tag of the main page, so putting "Mana World - Everything and more about Seiken Densetsu" or something like that would do the trick.

[The J Person]

But that sounds painfully cliched... like bad grammar. The sacrifices made for progress, eh? -.<;

[Kefka]

hurray!

[Kassidy]

Yeh, it's an aide de explanation merely.

And see, if ye search for the words "World" and "Mana" now, it's about 4th. That's why nowadays you've gotta end up putting most of your keywords in the title tag.

[koopa]

Hmm.. why not append " - dedicated to the seiken denetsu series" to the title?

Google values the first phrases on each page very high, so the website would maybe climb higher in the google results if it would contain many keywords like "seiken denetsu" "secret of mana" "world of mana".. I don't know how other search engines handle the META-tags, but google ignores most of them :(

Maybe the admin ( who is actually the admin? ) could modify the URIs from "/?content=ffa " to "/final-fantasy-adventure/ ", the last URI will appear higher in the search results if somebody searches for "final fantasy" or "final adventure" , .. This can be done with ModRewrite without changing any php-code.

- http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/s ... od_rewrite
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

The following .htaccess-example would redirect the user from "/final-fantasy-adventure" to "/index.php?content=ffa"

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule final-fantasy-adventure.*$ index.php?content=ffa

[Deques]

i have tried the mod_rewrite before, but somehow the counter i made doesnt work with it perfectly. it randomly adds more hits than it should be adding. ie it adds 7 hits, next time it adds 10 hits.
i dont understand why
but hey, the rule you gave me is better than what i tried before. you know how mod_rewrite works?
maybe a lesson from is good to me

[koopa]

Yes, I know the basics, I teased myself with ModRewrite for hours

I can try to write a guide or explain it to you via Instant Messenger ( ICQ? ).
You can simply take my example if you wish

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule final-fantasy-adventure.*$ /index.php?content=ffa
RewriteRule secret-of-mana.*$ /index.php?content=som
RewriteRule seiken-denetsu-3.*$ /index.php?content=sd3
RewriteRule sword-of-mana.*$ /index.php?content=swom
RewriteRule children-of-mana.*$ /index.php?content=com

hmm.. your counter adds 7 hits at once?!?!?!
could I have a look at the counter-script ( if it's written in PHP ).

[Deques]

fancy urls! finally!

the urls look like this now secret-of-mana-armor.html

[koopa]

Yay congrats The look really good ( especially with the .html ending )

:&#12358;&#12399;wwwwww: you noticed that google finds 4,280 sites when you let it search on seikens.com?

just enter site:seikens.com in google

=> http://www.google.com/search?q=site:sei ... N&filter=0

[Dr. Sheexy]

fancy urls! finally!

the urls look like this now secret-of-mana-armor.html

Wow, those are really nice looking.

Am I going to have to start naming my stuff like that, or do you have a script or something that'll do it for me?

Waah, this computer is being weird. For some reason I see myself on the online list twice, and all my posts are showing up twice... but if I delete one they both go, this is weird!

[koopa]

hm.. which browser are you using? I think you have to use the syntax, it isn't automatically rewritten.

/index.php?content=bestiary&section=rabite

would be now:

/bestiary-rabite.html

it's like

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content-section.html

But you must talk to Deques, I think he needs to add all new sites to the .htaccess file.

//edit: to get it automatically managed you need to change the htaccess and the general syntax:

when using - instead of spaces which aren't allowed in urls and using - as divider for section and content, the script can't differ between them. Why not use a syntax like this:

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http://seikens.com/con-tent-main-site.html
http://seikens.com/con-tent-site/section.html

this script would allow to add new sites without modifying the .htaccess-file:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/board/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/content/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/copper/

RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9]*)/([-a-zA-Z0-9]*).html$ index.php?content=$1&section=$2
RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z0-9]*).html$ index.php?content=$1