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~Dan Zekpone

Mar 10, 2011, 7:12 PM

4 Posts

Google & this forum

Category: Forum design
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.2
Role: End user,Developer,Administrator
Tags: search,google
Replies: 2

Just an FYI on the design of the forum.

Individual posts are identified by reference to elements in the querystring, which is a big no-no. For example, a permalink to a post here appears to be thus:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/xpagesforum.nsf/topicThread.xsp?documentId=AAEF6CCCEB82EE51852578420047E66F&action=openDocument.

As a result of this, Google has a hard time indexing the forum. To see what I mean, try this search:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=xpages+out+of+memory

… you will note that some of the links returned are from this forum. Whilst the cached content in Google looks relevant, the links are no good to users, because they all end up looking like this:

https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/xpagesforum.nsf/mainTopics.xsp?SessionID=CS91NOSE15

(i.e. don't actually go anywhere beyond the "Main Topics" screen, and that's not much use).

~Karl Froresazenlen

Mar 10, 2011, 7:22 PM

149 Posts

Re: Google & this forum

If you want someone to act upon your request you should post it as a feature request on openntf

http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/requests.xsp?action=openDocument&name=XPages%20Forum&documentId=632CA971FEA23199862578410071FA10

Good luck
Thomas

~Dan Zekpone

Mar 10, 2011, 9:08 PM

4 Posts

Re: Google & this forum

Erm, I don't really care to be honest, just saying how this forum is being spidered.

If you want it to be a useful resource, then it needs to present results properly, and allow for proper indexing. That's pretty basic, and isn't a "bug" in my book, but YMMV.

(Incidentally, given the "beta" nature of this forum, if you want everything against the OpenNTF project why have a "Forum design" category?)