Making Your Community SE Friendly

Patrick · Administrator

What have you done to make your community SE friendly?

The only thing I've done really is install a search engine friendly archive. I've also edited the way phpBB did page titles by default, removing the "View Forum" and "View Topic" parts.
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Thoul · Posted: 12/8/2006, 5:22 pm Post subject:

I've done most of that big "Search Engine Optimization" hack. Removing session ids for guests, changing around latest post links, editing page titles, and putting mod_rewrite on the URLs. I've never done the archive stuff, I just don't like that approach too much.

On the next community I plan to launch, I'm adding a mod_rewrite hack that gives the topics URLs like making-your-community-se-friendly-vt1261.html. I've seen that installed at another forum, and Google seems to just eat it up.
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Yeah, I think might be interested in that sort of hack myself, eventually. I tried to do something like that once, long ago, but it killed the server I was on so it scared me good. Laughing

But, I see places that do it fine.
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