Thread title repeated in every post

Do you think its good to have the thread title repeated in every reply? There is a setting in vbulletin to repeat the title, do you think that should be turned on?

 

You can cut it off?!?!?

I hate that feature....anyone know how to cut it off

edited: I got it

 

I think it's pointless and completely unnecessary, so I always disable it.

 

I don't think there is any SEO benefit to it what-so-ever. Keyword density is a thing of the past and at best it will come off as more spamish and repetitiveness than anything else.

Sometimes it looks nice on themes, but most the time its just extra garbage on already garbage filled pages.

 

I have it enabled.

 

Does anyone actually read those titles above each post?

 

I don't like it, it's very irritating.

 

Yes ma'am, I agree 100%.

 

Its not people I'am thinking about, its google. If the title of the thread has important keywords in it, would it be good to repeat those keywords over and over in the thread.

 

Actual posts in a thread get very little importance to the ranking of your site. When search engines index, they only really care about the first post. Comments are rather meaningless in the entire scheme of things.

 

I dont care one way or the other, dont really notice them on or off tbh.

 

Wow...I never knew this.

Is it true for IPB, MyBB, SMF etc as well?

 

It would hold true with all software really. It is more of a hierarchy thing than anything else. I guess you could start each comment or post with a h2 tag but than you dilute the meaning of your headers and the end result would be practically the same.

 

I've always had ours on and never really thought about it. It is useful in one way for us though... when users go posting in the 'wrong' forum and then we need to delete the posts, we don't delete them, we move them to this one big thread in our Lounge. Having the post titles in there lets you see what thread they came from.