Forum SEO - Forum Owners

ps3ps3.com · #1 06-12-2005, 01:37 PM

Hi,

Whats that thing that converst all your forum pages into html for SEO purposes?
Anyone know?

And i think that admin needs to update the threads and forums, they seem to be from the old forum.

htmlmaster · #2 06-22-2005, 10:01 AM

I never heard of such a thing, and scarcly think that it is possible. Every forum I have seen needs PHP in some way +MySQL/SQL. I don't think it is possible to change that, otherwise the forum would be static. Anyway, I don't think that a pure HTML forum would help you in SEO.

Kishin · #3 06-27-2005, 05:40 PM

Cant you convert them with Apache handlers?

Admin · #4 06-27-2005, 07:29 PM

Not sure exactly what your asking you cannot have a html format running with your forum there is usually a metatags spot in the admin section if thats what you wanting.

dvduval · #5 08-14-2005, 10:14 PM

He is just talking about using mod rewrite. I think the best thing to do is look and see what the big boards are doing. I would tend to think it is moderately helpful for SEO, but would not go so far as to say it will make a huge difference.

dotcomguy · #6 12-13-2005, 01:54 PM

This forum is using mod-rewrite which you can implement by going to http://www.crawlability.com/vbseo/

Alternativly you can create boards to be pure HTML like www.idolme.com does, It's simply a matter of each time someone posts it grabs the mysql data and the new post, then creating the html file and updating the links on the board.

Not sure which script is currently available.

crash · #7 12-23-2005, 12:54 PM

That would be very handy! Never heard of anything like it though... that would be a major job.

kiz9999 · #8 01-07-2006, 11:46 AM

Yeh i would imagine that it would be a very difficult task to do wouldn't it be?

forumowner · #9 01-13-2006, 12:10 PM

that seems like a hard job. i have never heard of anything that will do that.

seoforumz · #10 01-23-2006, 03:27 PM

You can also implement mod_rewrite using a .htaccess file.

You can find out more on "Mod-Rewrite" by reading the topics and posts here: Mod Rewrite Forums

You will find that a search engine friendly url has many benefits and help to get pages indexed and ranking quickly. The vbSEO program works well if you have a VBforum, but what if you dont? I am not sure if crawlability has released their phpBB version or IPB version yet, so if you have either of those boards or a different board like miniBB you may have to find something else.

The best way aside from a program is to use Apache Mod_rewrite in a .htaccess file to restructure your urls to be more search engine friendly and indexable.