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So after my articles on SEO in Joomla and SEO in osCommerce this is 3rd Article in the series of doing SEO on popular scripts, In this article I am going to discuss some important factors and tools that will make your phpBB forum much more search engine friendly.
Able2Know.com SEO 2.0.0 And SEO in PHPBB :-
This mod makes your phpbb forum SE friendly. Here is the little description, how it is accomplished.
The biggest problem with most forums is the session IDs due to which the search engines cannot crawl well and may be cannot crawl at all. So this mod makes all the Urls very SE friendly for all the search engines including google, yahoo,..etc. Another issues with Phpbb forum is that viewforum.php page and viewtopic.php page always have very lower rank (page rank) than it was earlier. This mod has focused on this issue to improve the page rank of these both pages again. Another important aspect of SEO in phpbb is how to instruct the search engines to crawl the right pages and not the undesired parts. This MOD focuses the bots on relevant pages and contents. You may know the fact that search engines love to see the static pages (HTML). So this MOD makes the static urls which are easily spidered by bots and easily viewed by humans too.
The latest version of this MOD can be downloaded from here(Direct Link)
PHP SEO Master 1.2 And SEO In PHPBB :-
If you want to make your Phpbb forum more SE friendly and want more hits on your forum from search engines than SEO Master is worth considering. Here are its main features :
It can be easily installed and can work with already present working forum. The urls of all the topics of the forum are converted to a format that are more and more SE friedly. Also the urls of all the forums are converted to urls that are loved by search engines.
Follow this link to see more and download :
Removal Of Dynamic URLs An SEO In PHPBB :-
It is very important to replace the dynamic urls created in phpbb with static urls so that spiders can crawl easily.
This url is Dynamic: http://my_phpbb_site.com/viewtopic.php?t=357
This is Static: http://my_phpbb_site.comcom/post357.html
The code for this can be copied from here ::
Session IDs and SEO in PHPBB :-
As already discussed that urls having session ids are not liked by search engines. Some search cannot crawl in a better way while others simply cannot crawl with these. Here is the little piece of code that will free your urls in phpbb from session ids and thus making it more SE friendly.
a) Open file sessions.php in the includes directory
b) find this code $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id;
c) replace with
if ( $userdata['session_user_id'] != ANONYMOUS ){
$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id;
} else {
$SID = '';
}
Magic SEO URL for phpBB And SEO in PHPBB :-
IT is another enhancement in SEO in PHPBB. Makes urls static, well formed and SE friendly. Verifies and validates each and every url. Handles the session ids very properly. Helps you avoid penalties caused by duplication of text (contents).
This is not free but it’s a great tool :
http://www.magic-seo-url.com/phpbb/
I hope you will find this little article useful. I would like to hear your suggestions or comments as I know there will be some more modules,plugins and tools to make phpBB more seo friendly 
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