Hi there, I want to know that how to make the PHPBBB forums SEO friendly. How to convert the dynamic URLs of this forum into static URLs. How to write Title, Description etc. Any help will be appreciated. Regards bushib
Hi me amit bhalla -- If you want to make your Phpbb forum more SE friendly and want more hits on your forum from search engines than SEO Master is worth considering. Here are its main features : It can be easily installed and can work with already present working forum. The urls of all the topics of the forum are converted to a format that is more and more SE friendly. Also the urls of all the forums are converted to urls that are loved by search engines. Session IDs and SEO in PHPBB :- As already discussed that urls having session ids are not liked by search engines. Some search cannot crawl in a better way while others simply cannot crawl with these. Here is the little piece of code that will free your urls in phpbb from session ids and thus making it more SE friendly. a) Open file sessions.php in the includes directory b) find this code $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; c) replace with if ( $userdata['session_user_id'] != ANONYMOUS ){ $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; } else { $SID = ''; } Magic SEO URL for phpBB And SEO in PHPBB :- IT is another enhancement in SEO in PHPBB. Makes urls static, well formed and SE friendly. Verifies and validates each and every url. Handles the session ids very properly. Helps you avoid penalties caused by duplication of text (contents). This is not free but it’s a great tool: http://www.magic-seo-url.com/phpbb/ I hope you will find this little article useful. I would like to hear your suggestions or comments as I know there will be some more modules, plugins and tools to make phpBB more seo friendly