Hello, I am planning to open a new forum in a month. I am looking for a forum software which has perfect url-rewriting support (even as a plugin). I know vbulletin and vbseo but i think price is too much. (I decided to buy vbulletin but later learned that vbseo is also sold with a similar price! So the prioce became ~two times of vbulletin. Let me know if i am wrong.) And what i mean with url-rewriting is that the urls of the posts and forums should be formed as "post titles" or "forum titles". Based on your experience, which choices i have? And why do you suggest those coices? Thanks.
Ok. I will look at it but isnt it too time consuming to write url-rewriting of the whole forum software (whatever i chose) myself? Dont we have a off-the-shelf solution?
I had no idea about url-rewriting. I wanted to write "url-rewriting" for one site. I was thinking it will be very tuff. But it's not so hard. Just few line script in .htaccess file and some changes in template file and done. You may also find your answer there.
I see. I will read it more carefully.. By the way, a little bit off topic but where do you configure "Recent Blog" setting in this forum (You have "Acdamey of Aerospace & Aviation Tauren" as the recent blog entry.) I looked at it before but could not find the place
User Control Panel > Edit Options Go to bottam of the page, enter your blogfeed in " Blog XML Feed URL" box. "Tauren" is just like you are "Raider"
VBulletin with no doubt the best forum software as you can see your self a live demo here at dp it self. If you need your mod there are two options, 1. zoints seo free plugin get it from vbulletin.org or a 2. a paid one vbseo, get it from vbseo.com
SEO Board is a software meant to be SEO friendly if you want performance over fancy features: www.seo-board.com
VBulletin needs no SEO, it is t off page seo that you need to concentrate more upon, use a sitemap generator submit it to google/yahoo, and start building links. VBSEO to an extent for new site's works like a charm but it has its own problems it consumes lots of server resources making it not my choice if it was really light and not resource hogger I would have already had it on my site's.
I use VBSEO on all my new forums and it is by far the easiest to install and configure. Takes minutes and it's not hard to understand at all. Plus it has the new digg/furl/other social bookmarking sites feature. To see it in action check out the icons in any of the threads on www.hoopstalk.net
Thanks for the url, i will check it. Yes, i also checked the demo of vbseo. It look really nice. Lots of detail seem to be tought. I am convinced from features perspective. But i am wondering if the forum gets large, whther i willl see serious performance problems or not? This should be considered now since it will be impossible to turn off vbseo after a point.. Anybody has a big forum with vbseo and not having performance problems?
Yes, it is possible to turn off vbseo.Even v7n is using them.v7n are a big webmaster forums.Johnscott(Owner of v7n) gave excellent feedback about it but he mentioned that it takes alot of server load as it rewrites url etc Saad