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dojo

Joined: 03 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: 9/8/2005, 12:57 am    Post subject: SEO anyone? Reply with quote

What SEO tricks do you apply for your forums?

I have installed a mod for phpBB to hide signatures from guests, they say it's better this way. Am gonna look for some more ideas in the future.

What do you do in this matter?
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Joined: 28 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: 9/8/2005, 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a search engine friendly archive and that's all. It's text only. I like to allow links to count on my normal pages, etc. If I made my normal pages SE friendly, I would let links count.
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Thoul

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: 9/19/2005, 6:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use the SEO hack for phpBB, with the mod_rewrite addon. I noticed Google wasn't indexing the non-forum section of my site, where I use URLs like /book.php, so I did some mod_rewrite to change those to .html URLs. It seems to have improved the indexing of those pages.
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Keith

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PostPosted: 9/19/2005, 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Only the archive at present.
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harishankar

Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: 9/19/2005, 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have installed the SEO hack found in phpBBHacks (the one that removes the session IDs for guests, does mod_rewrite and so on:

It was done a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure it was this hack:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2040
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Skaidon

Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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PostPosted: 10/4/2005, 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mod_rewrite of all URLs are a must! Not only is it far more friendly to the users eyes, it also seems to rank quicker with the search engines.
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Joined: 25 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: 10/6/2005, 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is one mod that I would like to see implemented as standard in all phpBB versions for the future.
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Skaidon

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PostPosted: 10/6/2005, 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definately, as far as I'm aware there isn't one that is any good, nor is there a plan for one, due to its relying on Apache and mod_rewrite.
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Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: 12/2/2005, 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've hacked my SMF forums into making static SE friendly HTML pages. Though SE's are capable of indexing PHP's just fine, SE's usually index html a lot faster...
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rich

Joined: 13 Dec 2005
Posts: 34
Location: U.K

PostPosted: 12/13/2005, 5:44 am    Post subject: Re: SEO anyone? Reply with quote

dojo wrote:
What SEO tricks do you apply for your forums?

I have installed a mod for phpBB to hide signatures from guests, they say it's better this way. Am gonna look for some more ideas in the future.

What do you do in this matter?


None (laughs)

My Google ranking is apparently 4 and i'm sure with the write assistance + direction I could do better, a lot lot better..

I don't mind owning up here as I'm probably the most incompetent out of all of us with administering a phpbb.

(read my intro) Rolling Eyes
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