Andrew Boon
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 yeah, in our case we'd end up with 49540-1000-post-club-part204 but the 49540-1000-post-club-part1 would stay far behind, and Google wouldn't have to reindex it every time it visits your forum homepage.

Basically I am implying that our setup works better from MODERN search engines, that generally prefer more dynamic content with unique updates.
houstonlively
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 to your site, they will load 123-Some-Topic.php with Part-10 dynamically loaded into it. Is this remotely possible?
RobertRun
That makes, especially now since almost all search engines have gone dynamic..
 
 
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