SEO SUPER experts...need you help pls. Has anyone tried SEO4SMF an SEO module for SMF. I have tried installing it but I cannot understand what it does from the limited support file. I am a web newbie before was an engineer. Tried created a website however I cannot understand some fields and I don't know what the field does Here are the fields Seo4SMF Options: Seo4SMF Enable Remove board from front of topic ? Beautifying url for profile members ? Beautifying url for forum actions ? Remove accented characters from url's ? Enable SQL Query when we don't find url in SMF Context ? Split char for url's ? Meta Tags: Change Description ? Change Keywords ? Description Length Description Content for Index Description Content for Topics >Options 1. Firstpost + Board Name 2. Firstpost + Topic Title 3. Firstpost + Topic Title + Board Name 4. First + Board Description....etc. 5. ....etc Description Content for Boards >options 1. Board Name 2. Board Description 3. Board Name + Board Description 4. ....etc Keyword Content for Topics >Options 1. Firstpost + Board Name 2. Firstpost + Topic Title 3. Firstpost + Topic Title + Board Name 4. First + Board Description....etc. 5. ....etc Keyword Content for Boards 1. Board Name 2. Board Description 3. Board Name + Board Description 4. ....etc Enable Social Bookmarking ? What sites do you want for social Bookmarking ? Checkbox Digg SlashDot Technorati FURL del.ici.ous Google Yahoo From what Level users can submit ? Administratorm global administrator.....etc.. Sitemaps Box in front page ? <----- what's this How many links in html sitemaps ? Edit htaccess....save xml <------ this one is so technical Hope you can help me. I really cannot undertand what it does. I have read SEO articles but cannot understand this. I'm just new to forums. I just installed my fireforum 1 hour ago. I was a blogger before. I know just a liitle bit of basic html codes. Hope somebody who really is an expert can help me. Thanks so much. More power.
Wow ton's of questions. I'll sum it up. For meta tags, it's the same as in the seo ebook. If it doesn't have a meta tag section then go get another ebook, type "free seo ebook" at google. For description... Go to http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ and you will see "General search engine optimization discussion." under "Search Engine Optimization". That is the description for the topic. For keyword... Its quite the same as description, but it will help people when they are using the search menu. The sitemap is just like ordinary sitemap. User level? You need to decide it yourself, which forums can ordinary user post to. htaccess is quite difficult. Just skip it for now. It should be working without .htaccess or it already has a default .htaccess. If it's not working, then you need someone who has used the plugin before. About urls... beautify url or accented urls its about choosing: - www.domain.com/folder/topic/post.php (beauty) or - www.domain.com/forum.php?folder=123&topic=456&post=789 (not beauty) Hope that helps.
Yea I have first hand experience with SEO4SMF and SMF forum. First: SMF (in it's pure form) is the most SE unfriendly forum alive. Even with SE friendly links turned on it's admin. Second: SMF is the worlds most **friendly** forum alive when you install SEO4SMF. Eg http://www.110mb.com/forum didn't get more then 3K links indexed for 6 straight months in google. We installed SEO4SMF and within 3 weeks, over 16K was indexed (I think that makes about 98% of forum indexed.) I have also experimented with most SE friendly settings and this is what was found: Remove board from front of topic ? TICK ON. Beautifying url for profile members ? TICK ON. Beautifying url for forum actions ? TICK OFF! Enable SQL Query when we don't find url in SMF Context ? LEAVE AS IS Split char for url's ? LEAVE AS IS Sitemaps Box in front page ? URGENTLY TICK ON! WORTH GOLD. Edit htaccess....save xml ? CLICK "SAVE XML" ONCE ONLY! AND THATS ALL. AND NO NEED TO EDIT HTACCESS.