Speed Racer Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I am sure this is true of many people, but Google indexes the lofi version very well and I get a lot of incoming traffic from there. Also when you consider advertising income on the lofi pages this is actually a fairly significant dollar figure that would be eliminated. The click through rate from what I have seen is much higher on the lofi pages versus the regular forums. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 We still have a "lo-fi" version, it's just handled differently in IPB 3 than it was in 2. We're removing the specific /lofiversion/ directory, however we will be replicating the same functionality via a special skin. If you want to be sure that search bots only use the new lofi skin, you can setup that using the new User Agent matching system in IPB3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Oh, and to further what Josh said, lofi links that are indexed in Google *will* be 301 redirected to their proper location in 3.x. You won't simply start getting 404 errors from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortenz Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Great news - Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karll Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 This is an old thread, but I think this is still valid: [quote name='Josh' timestamp='1231769862' post='1780690'] We still have a "lo-fi" version, it's just handled differently in IPB 3 than it was in 2. We're removing the specific /lofiversion/ directory, however we will be replicating the same functionality via a special skin. If you want to be sure that search bots only use the new lofi skin, you can setup that using the new User Agent matching system in IPB3. So what is this skin called? Is it the "IP.Board XML" style? Can the search bots really read XML? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieTang Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 [quote name='karll' timestamp='1279370451' post='1988913'] This is an old thread, but I think this is still valid: So what is this skin called? Is it the "IP.Board XML" style? Can the search bots really read XML? In 3.0 it was IP.Board Lo-Fi, in 3.1 it's IP.Board Mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karll Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 [quote name='Kotonoha' timestamp='1279400658' post='1989175'] In 3.0 it was IP.Board Lo-Fi, in 3.1 it's IP.Board Mobile. Okay, thanks. So are you or anyone else using IP.Board Mobile for search bots with any success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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