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Started 7 months ago by fl00r
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fl00r
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When I use the search form on my BBpress site some of the search results have broken links.

When you go to my test site and search for e.g. "test" you get two results:
under Recent Posts:
One pointing to http://qtext.nl/topic/tewst#post-2

under Relevant posts:
One pointing to http://qtext.nl/topic/#post-

The second search result points to the front page instead of the appropriate post.

Any idea what is going wrong?

Thanks.

Posted 7 months ago #

Olaf
PHP Coder

You're right, the bbpress search is not the best function.

if you search here for "jquery" you get some "relevant posts" with only the title, those having the same problem.

It should be possible to disable the "relevant posts" and than showing more "recent posts" or better using Google Site search (CSE), check the the site search from finalwebsites.com

Posted 7 months ago #
fl00r
Member

Okay, I see. But it is not only with "relevant posts".
When you submit the query "polaris" on the live site (http://www.spanjeforum.nl/) you get 4 results under "recent posts". All of them pointing to the front page except for the result called "disney-world".

Any clues why?

Posted 7 months ago #
Olaf
PHP Coder

I think that this happens to topic where some posts are hidden because of spam/delete selection.

Do you checked the Google site search? Many big forums using that feature...

Posted 7 months ago #
fl00r
Member

I did checked the cse but it doesn't search the database, it only comes with pages which are indexed by Google, not?

Posted 7 months ago #
Olaf
PHP Coder

yes that's right, but the google search is more relevant and is pretty fast.

There are also tools to request some priority indexing.

Just try it first, before you decide to implement it. Most people doesn't search for new topics.

Posted 7 months ago #
fl00r
Member

In this particular forum I imported an old database with 30,000+ postings. Don't know if and when Google will index them.

Anyway, I discovered why some search result links where not working: when I switch to SEF URLs all links to the imported database are broken. When I switch back to 'ugly' URLs all is working except for the results listed under "Relevant posts".

ATM I'm trying to figure out how to remove the Relevant Posts from the search results.

Posted 7 months ago #
Olaf
PHP Coder

I have the same problem and I didn't imported the database.
If you create sitemaps from all topics, you get them indexed in no time.

The CSE index is different from the regular Google Index

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