Another Phorum SEO test update

I once started testing how well google, MSN and Yahoo would index pages from Phorum, a bulletin board system written in PHP. I happen to have a test phorum installation somewhere on this site that is a showcase for my martha theme I once made for it. Now phorum uses dynamic urls by default though there are some plugins available that can transform these into neat urls. It turned out that google and MSN indexed those neat urls pretty good. Yahoo didn’t seem to like me and had only a handfull of pages indexed. Afterwards I removed the plugin that generated the neaty urls and left my test board alone, with the broken urls and the new (normally default) ugly dynamic urls with parameters in place.

Today I did a search on what pages of this site were indexed. It turns out that MSN and Google made the jump quite easily. All obsolete urls seem to be gone, and in its place are now the new urls you always get warned about. I must add however that google hasn’t indexed all of them properly. Some of them are just indexed with no description at all, just giving the url in its results. I don’t know whether this is due to them being dynamic or caused by my switching. I’ll leave them as is for some more and look again later.

Yahoo still doesn’t like me. It has indexed about the same pages it had when I first looked.