"Paraty Black" is one of the e107 themes I did with Search engines in mind. It is not graphically the best, I know. It is old fashioned, I know. It does its own tricks! It rewrites the news titles for google and co, so I get nice .html files Works by e107 theme and mod rewrite, so no core hacking is done. This way it is more "blog" like. For a private site I think the better choice over furl, which does better results if you got your main content in the e107 forum.
I made me a new nice tool to display external news and stuff in e107. I know, theres the rss news "importer", unfortunally it only displays the actual news of the external sources. Sometimes I read something in my newsreader, dont save it and its gone when I check back. So I try to remember from which site this information came in. If I am lucky, the article is still there, sometimes it has also gone from the source.
If you are a wordpress guy you know the nice tools that imports every .rss into your own database. Nice, might be good if you are on a dedicated server and dont have to care on slow database connections.
At my host the database servers and the actual servers are clusters. Very stable, but sometimes a little slow and I also really dont like to go into database for every little change I want to make, I dont like, that if I import it to the e107 news tables that I will get very soon a very, very big news table.
And most important, whats about SEO. I know that my way of rendering the news to the world is better than a "normal" e107.
Is it good enough to make 5 feeds with say 200-500 news a day user and search engine friendly? I decided that not. So how to make it better? The simple answer is simple files that i render finally in my e107 installation. So I tweaked a rss-parser to write .php files that can be rendered in e107 instead of writing simple .html.
The pro, it is fast, I use tempfiles for the rss feeds so that the load on my and the orginating server is low. It gives me hundreds of pages every day if I want. The pages resist in directories that have meaningful names, good for a human, even better for Google & Co.
And the most important, I never miss an article again. The originating site might have gone to the eternal grounds of electrons, my copy is safe on my own maschine.
To see an example using the e107 newsfeed click here
Works by e107 theme and mod rewrite, so no core hacking is done. This way it is more "blog" like. For a private site I think the better choice over furl, which does better results if you got your main content in the e107 forum.
