Search Engine Friendly Forum

Out of Box Perferred

[Livenomadic]

Quick Question:

I was wondering if anyone knew of a forum that was SEF (Google and other SEs are able to spider the contents specific posts).

I know you can hack phpbb into submission, but I really am not very experienced in PHP so I wanted to avoid accesses digging into to the code.

I would of assumed that were would be a forum script that was SEF right out-of-box.

Thanks!

If there is not one avalible, a simple no will suffice.

[anallawalla]

phpBB has been SEF for the past two revisions - at least that's what I see here in such discussions. The default header in 2.0.8 seems to produce the same as I can see on the phpBB site and that's not too bad. With some minimal search and replace (which isn't really hacking), I could remove the annoying "www.domain.com :: View Forum" from the Title, but I haven't bothered.

[Livenomadic]

So without any editing of code google has not problem crawling the contents of posts in phpbb?

[universetoday]

The latest version of Invision Board is well equipped to handle Google and the other spiders. There's even a page in the admin software that shows you which spiders have crawled recently, and what pages they scooped up. My entire forum is well crawled by Google.

[cyberair]

The last word for BestBBS (the forum script that powers WebmasterWorld) was that it would be available before 2005. This is very SEF oriented, therefore I am waiting for its release to insert it into one of my sites.

It's worth the wait :)