Search engine friendly URLs

phpBB

[buksida]

Does anyone know where to find the Mod that replaces the session ID stuff with search engine friendly urls using the keywords of the title of the thread?

Have tried the phpbb.com site but couldnt find it there, also has anyone sucessfully installed it? How much of a headache was it and does it actually work?

Cheers!

[JustMeAgain]

There is a german mod, it seems to work very very well. I found it weeks ago, searching the phpBB oficial suport forum. But I canīt remember the name or the url.

[BlackRaven]

buksida, you dont need much to make phpbb search engine friendly. Google phpbb guest session removal, i think its only 1 file edit.

[BlackRaven]

Edit file 'includes/sessions.php'

Find:
$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id;

Replace With:
if ( $userdata['session_user_id']!= ANONYMOUS ){ $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; } else { $SID = ''; }

i dont really think that having keywords of the title of the thread in the url makes much diff with google, i dont and rank pretty well.

[buksida]

Ok, cheers for that, made the quick adjustment to sessions.php

So there is no need to change format of the URL then? The board gets spidered daily but it doesnt seem to rank very well which is strange because the site does.

Hopefully this will help!

[SuddenlySara]

Worked great for me. How about a way to make all unique static html pages (like webmasterworld) with phpbb...Anyone have a way to do this? I'm creating my first forum and just learning. I created a lot of categories but they all are index.php?c=1, c=2, c=3 and so on. And the forums under each category are all viewtopic.php?f=1, f=2, f=3 and so on.
Would like to make all unique html urls.

[Heartlander]

Same here- been looking for just such a mod!

[SuddenlySara]

I did find the mod that would change to unique html and more on a google search but the phpbb mod says last update 4/10/04. I don't enough about this coding though to know if it would make a current version a security risk?

[Heartlander]

Care to share the name of the mod?
Thanks.

[kidd]

Hello:

The best mod I know for this is the "Able2Know.com SEO 2.0.0".

This mod not only disables the sessions in guests, but it also provides with several tweaks to help on your search engine optimization.

I have successfully installed the mod in a couple of websites with forums and inmediately Google started to crawl the forum, within a few weeks my forum pages showed in the index and traffic started to flow.

I highly recommend this mod.

NOTE: You need to modify your .htaccess and you must have mod_rewrite in your server.

[caran1]

Does this work even if non registered user can post?

[keitai]

I just started my new forum and I have done Able2Know.com SEO 2.0.0 and it looks very good. I replace about with talk-city (subject of my forum). I am not really sure if this is the way to go, but it looks nicer to have your keywords instead of Able2Know's about.