vbulliten better than phpBB for seo?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by Sagewing, Nov 8, 2005.

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    I am optimizing 2 phpBB forums for SEO, and a friend told me that it would all be much easier in vBulliten. Is this true?
     
    Sagewing, Nov 8, 2005 IP
  2. Old Welsh Guy

    Old Welsh Guy Notable Member

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    Yes, VB is better out of the box than PHPBB.
     
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  3. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    It's really not very difficult to optimize phpBB, though, if you know have programming skills at all and aren't afraid to do a little editing in PHP files.

    Are you using the Able2Know phpBB MOD?
     
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    protesto Peon

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    +1

    You can optimize phpBB very well. There are great mods for SEO. Also you can find extra tips here that are not included in mods.
     
    protesto, Nov 9, 2005 IP
  5. Sagewing

    Sagewing Peon

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    Thanks for this feedback..
     
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    Out of the box vBulletin 3.5.1 contains many URL enhancements and numerous rel=nofollow tags to help reduce issues for Spiders such as encuring Permission Message pages which can detere them away from the actual content. Of course with modification such as vB SEO readily avaiable at the reletively cheap price of around $149 you can make your forums completely SE friendly with .html pages with the ability to add in Custom Rewrite Rules for specific pages, forums, and threads.
     
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    not vbseo again.
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Unnecessary and/ir better done using the robots.txt file to exclude those files and directories you don't want spidered.

    Unnecessary and has some drawbacks not usually mentioned, especially by people trying to sell you something for $149 a pop.
     
    minstrel, Dec 4, 2005 IP
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    The code is also encrypted - fyi.... Not to mention, they think of the coop as anchor text spamming

     
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  10. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    I would have to say that's arguable.

    For example in the case of this forum... the "Contact Us" link is spiderable:

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/sendmessage.php

    But the send email to an individual user is not:

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/sendmessage.php?do=mailmember&u=1

    Now you could disallow anything with a query string on it like so: 
    User-agent: *
Disallow: /sendmessage.php?
    Code (markup):
    But that's only going to work for Google (not Yahoo or MSN unless they recently started understanding query strings in robots.txt).

    It's certainly better to use robots.txt (when possible), but it's not always going to be possible. That being said, I still use robots.txt here even though there are existing nofollow tags that achieve the same thing.
     
    digitalpoint, Dec 5, 2005 IP
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    I use PHPBB and love it, but i have also heard from a few million dollar affiliates that their favorite to use is V-Bulletin..... so maybe it's only for those seasoned enough to need it's features?
     
    kyleholman, Feb 27, 2011 IP