Advanced Mod Admin Workload

admintiger · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 9

I am upgrading a board associated with a busy website from phpBB2 to phpBB SEO Premod V 3.0.1. The board has more than 700 registered members, but I have completely restructured the layout and it has been off-line a few weeks, so I am not concerned about maintaining the old URL structure.

I have done the following:

1) Installed phpBB SEO Premod V 3.0.1

2) Imported the database

3) Set all standard ACP options as I want them

4) Changed categories, created new forums, deleted some irrelevant posts, moved other posts, etc.

Everything to this point has gone very well. I am now ready to select phpBB SEO Class settings.

I have spent some time studying the various options and think I have good general understanding of them, except for issues relating to this statement: "The Advanced mod is the "harder" to deal with, it implies a good topic title moderation to really be better than the Mixed one."

1) Can you be more specific about exactly what an admin must be willing to do to derive benefit from the Advanced mod?

2) Is anything required other than rewording bad topic tiles to better ones?

3) What happens if a search bot indexes an original topic title before it is reworded? Does the system automatically generate 301 redirects to the improved URL?

4) Are there any other issues that make the Advanced mod "harder" to deal with (relating to other board changes, for example)?

Thanks all the work you have put into this.

dcz · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Advanced Mod Admin Workload

admintiger · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 9

Thanks for your clear and detailed response. Your answers are consistent with what I had understood from reading other explanations you have written and comments posted by others, but I wanted to be sure I hadn't missed something important before making a selection I might later regret.

User-entered topic titles are better than average on the board I am upgrading, because it was created for a special-interest group, but even so, some titles used in the past have been meaningless, misleading, poorly-worded, or misspelled. As part of the recent content reorganization I have scanned through and reworded bad titles to make them more descriptive. However, sometimes it is difficult to think of good titles myself, because of the nature of certain posts. Also, I have concerns about offending posters by changing what they wrote.

Because of that last concern I have added a note in the board rules that explains that meaningless, misleading, poorly-worded, or misspelled titles may be reworded.

dcz · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Re: Advanced Mod Admin Workload