Forum phpBB - how to best SEO it?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by johnegood, Jan 11, 2009.

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    I've had a forum for my member site which for historical reasons, was created and hosted on another domain (basically, it's on Linux and our main site was created on a Windows server). It's managed by an outside guy.

    I have long asked him to create more SEO-friendly URLs and page titles. He recently made a series of technology changes which I'm not sure that I understand and I'm not sure that they are optimal. I'm basically a white-hat long term approach guy. Can I get your thoughts.

    The site is.... Time4Learning.net. He told me he:

    - implemented the ScriptWiz.com phpBB HTML Archiver
    - generated spider friendly HTML pages which duplicate the actual forum
    - updated the robot./txt to deny access to actual forum and to allow it to ~/forum/seo/ which is where spider friendly HTML pages are. An XML site map, regenerated daily, is pointing towards static spider friendly HTML pages.
     
    johnegood, Jan 11, 2009 IP