phpBB SEO EasyMOD

Download phpBB SEO EasyMOD

Quite some time ago Able2Know.com released a mod for phpBB that would make your URLs static.

The point is so that search engines can index your site better. Even google itself says “If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.”

Unfortunately due to the way phpBB was originally designed, it has its fair share of URLs containing a “?” character. This script is designed to eliminate this.

The phpBB SEO mod is a two part mod:

With both combined it does the following:

  1. Remove the “View Latest Post” icon and link on index.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  2. Make the date of the last post link to the last post like the icon did on index.php – for better crawling
  3. Unlink the username of the last post on index.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  4. Remove listing of moderators on index.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  5. Remove session IDs for all search engine spiders – forces URLs to be less dynamic looking
  6. Unlink the username of the last post on viewforum.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  7. Remove the “View Latest Post” icon and link on viewforum.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  8. Make the date of the last post link to the last post like the icon did on viewforum.php – for better crawling
  9. Unlink the author username on viewforum.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  10. Remove signatures for guest views – reduce number of irrelevant links for better performance
  11. Remove avatars for guest views – reduce bandwidth usage when search engines crawl
  12. Remove personal info (Profile, IM, PM, AIM, etc) for guest views – reduce bandwidth, privacy, and better performance
  13. Unlink the username of the last post on search.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  14. Remove the “View Latest Post” icon and link on search.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  15. Make the date of the last post link to the last post like the icon did on search.php – for better crawling
  16. Unlink the author username on search.php – reduce number of links for better performance
  17. Link the user post count to a search of the user’s posts – drives more traffic this way
  18. Make Auth list on viewtopic.php invisible to search engines – irrelevant information for guests and search engines
  19. Make the previous and next topic links invisible to search engines – search engines index these links incorrectly
  20. Removes the sitename from page titles, improving keyword weight – with the sitename gone from the title, it means the post subject can take centre stage meaning more relevant searching.
  21. Change the page title of the index page to a hardcoded site name because of the site name removal – This can be skipped.
  22. Hide forum stats from guests and spiders – Pointless information for non-members.
  23. Static URLs with mod_rewrite – for guests and search engines only, it makes it easy for them to index the pages as if they were static pages. Logged in users can use the dynamic URLs.

My only gripe with this mod was that it didn’t work with EasyMOD, EasyMOD as the name suggests makes it easy to install phpBB mods. However, to do so, mods must fall in-line with the phpBB EasyMod standards. Unfortunately the SEO mod did not do this.

So I set out to achieve just that.

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9 Comments »

  1. WitheHorse said,

    April 19, 2007 @ 3:00 am

    Hi all!
    I like this forum!!

  2. abhishek said,

    May 2, 2007 @ 5:16 am

    it doesnt work with easymod , not showing up

  3. dcz said,

    September 16, 2007 @ 3:18 pm

    Great work.

    It’s easier for many to be able to install mods with EZmod.

    Maybe I’m not out if I give a link to some more efficient URL rewriting mods (zero duplicate) for phpBB2 and phpBB3 :

    http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/

    The advanced version for phpBB3 is demonstrated here : http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/

    Hope you like it.

    ++

  4. Darren Lovelock said,

    November 21, 2007 @ 4:36 pm

    I’m fixing the bugs on our forum. Your mod that does this “Unlink the username of the last post on index.php – reduce number of links for better performance” only takes out the first part of the link. Where is the code so I can stop it from doing this as it has left a load of ’s causing the forum to no longer validate.

  5. sgds said,

    June 7, 2008 @ 9:09 am

    I think (IMHO): now crowlers ignored differents in URL – with “?” and without them. But without “?” more beaty

  6. chitgoks said,

    July 6, 2008 @ 1:52 am

    hi, i did install easymod (i think, since there’s a .MOD in the menu item when logged in as admin). when i downloaded your phpbb seo easymod version, they’re in .mod

    and in it are instructions how to manually install them? i thought easymod would handle everything? if so, where should the .mod files be placed? thanks

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    August 29, 2008 @ 10:25 am

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    June 7, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

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  9. Pakiisp said,

    February 13, 2010 @ 1:17 am

    For MAke Better SEO performance Crwalers. Index Pages. og your forums. must use SEO MOD in your forum it w’ll really help you get more links index in search engines. thanks.

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