SEO for forums

[brb]

I was looking at another phpbb forum today and it looks like they have added a mod that makes the url of each post the title of the thread. Would this help in the seo of my forum?

I'm currently making a site map of my forum using xml and am going to submit it and looking for any ideas or help that might help my rankings.

[a389951l]

One of the most important first steps for phpbb is to get rid of the session ids in the url. Check out Abe's Phpbb mod.

[GTAce]

I would agree. Get rid of the session id's first and foremost...I've never been a huge fan of renaming URL's completely because it is awfully restrictive when it comes time to upgrade or customize...I think that for phpBB, removing the sid's is a great improvement.