The SEs crawl phpBB just fine. With SIDs included no doubt. Never understood all the myths about phpBB.
Well those that usually complain show a goggle seach string to back it up usually and the index is never what it can be IMO. We just converted a phpbb that was in good shape, run well, and has traffic to vB. The indexed pages increases over 10 fold. So there is room for improvement. Good luck with your mod, those that know, use it from what I've seen.
never go phpbb... or phpnuke.... Google absolutely despises both... Without mod rewrite, google hatesthe urls. WithMod rewrite, google hates the page generation time.... its a lose lose situation...
I can Re-Write a part of PhpBB Code so that it allows a better pagination and also mod_rewrite!, not problem works fine for my site! 25000 Pages of mine are indexed by google! alone! well it was more than 90k once but since google had a problem, I'm loosing number of pages being indexed but I guess I'm not alone in this boat!
That's probably a fair offer. However, consider this. vBulletin would cost you $85.00 to have for a year at a time and $160.00 to own it with a nominal $30 to reup support later. If you are going to throw any money at this at all, now is the time to go to the next level. Good luck.
Sorry to hijack the thread. Noppid you seem very in the know with forum administration. Do you have any experience with converting phpbb forums to VB. Is it a complex task for a non-techie?
Well I've done a few PHPbb to vB3 conversions. The instructions can be intimidating. However, with a backup of your original forum secured, you can play with the conversion process all you want till you get it right. Backup the original forum. Install vB. Close the original forum. Run inpex from the vB ACP. Do forum and group permissions. Update counters when done. And you should have a duplicate of your old forum on vB.(that's off my head) You can do the job with one DB and table prefixes, however, two DBs would be the preferred method. The impex import product by vbulletin for phpbb is well done. It pulls everything you need. Things that can go wrong are mostly timing issues with various server configurations. I have had to redo things in some cases to get the server happy with the processing time and such. But that is to be expected and patience will get ya there if that is an issue on your server. Then copy your default style and go to town making the forum look the way that fits your sites theme. Always leave a copy of the original vB templates intact and unedited available in your ACP.
Well, no I wan't saying that. That's the basics of it. If you can create a DB and know it's name and password, upload files, edit a file or two, and follow the install steps that walk you through, a non techy could do it. I'm serious. It looks huge, but if you break it down, you can see that it's not that hard and made up of tasks you know how to do I bet. The vB support forum can help too.
Could you point out an example? While I'm sure html extensions help in general. I can't see where a forum with the mod is doing better the a properly SEO'd forum using php URLs. It does not seem to benefit a forum for the effort necessary to install and manage at upgrades. EDIT: opps, I'm talking vB. I forgot this topic is phpbb which needs more help.
Its not that complex. It sounds hard, but if your converting phpbb to vbulletin its actually pretty easy. I would like to see some specifics on this. I hear people claim this, but never see any proof.
Joey you'll probably tell me to get f****d (lets not bump that thread again lol) but can you point me to a good thread on your VB site with regards to this?
Well - Here is one: PHPBB to vBulletin I recently did this for the first time myself. I found it to be pretty easy.