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houstonlively•17th of July 2012•to Andrew Boon

OK... let's take that same example and do it your way. We'd end up with

49540-1000-post-club-part1
49540-1000-post-club-part2
49540-1000-post-club-part3
49540-1000-post-club-part4
...... everything in between
49540-1000-post-club-part204

(your way will need the thread ID in the url so you know where all the parts belong)

Now you have 204 parts with very similar names, as opposed to 204 different pages with their own unique url. Why would Google treat this any better than standard see more

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Andrew Boon•18th of July 2012•to houstonlively

URLs would be pretty much the same, static or dynamic doesn't really matter. Difference is in "anchor text" at the moment of indexing and in supplying the freshest page right from the Forums homepage.

We didn't invent this method. On many well-managed forums moderators would split long topics, knowing that too many pages is a recipe for troubles. (example - webmasterworld.com - they do have paginate, but they alway split after 5-10 pages. they also use 30 posts per page, not 10).

So, see more

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houstonlively•18th of July 2012•to Andrew Boon

Do you not see how cluttered this will make forums? Maybe the search engines will love it, but regular forum users (humans) will have to wade through a sea of threads. It's just plain nuts.

Can you at least try to think of a way to just display only the parent thread for human users, that loads the individual pages, and let the google bots gorge themselves on the countless component parts? Say when a Google user clicks on a search result called 123-Some-Topic-Part-10.php, when the user gets see more

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RobertRun•23rd of July 2012•to Andrew Boon

That makes, especially now since almost all search engines have gone dynamic..

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geek_girl•9th of February 2013•to houstonlively

"Congratulations! You have invented forum navigation from hell."
Exactly!

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