http://www.illestlyrics.com/board/

I made two custom skins, a couple modifications to the profile, a few mods, but mostly the phpbb-seo.com mods as I install on every forum I own.

I upgraded to phpBB3 recently, didn't lose ANY pages on google, it wasn't for the faint of heart, but the whole upgrade process wasn't.

A lot of great documentation and the help of the administrator of this forum helped me with that. I'm just happy that I won't have to do phpBB4 for quite some time.

The site has over 100,000 posts and growing. It has basically every mod from phpBB-seo.com and all that really shows up on google is the topics, forums, profiles, and index page. That is exactly how I want it.

I wouldn't recommend that people use the "member names" for the profiles -- if you're applying the mods to your current installation -- because the fancy names with weird encoding will give you a headache. I don't think it really affects page rank.

I probably shouldn't have used title as the url because a lot of the topic titles are crap and wouldn't mean anything to people on google, that goes a long with the title. I don't regret it though, its useful when your forum mebers are linking people as well. Take some SEO, give some user friendliness. I'm experimenting -- on the forum that I just launched -- with using just the "topictitle" and I'll report back my particular results.

As for page rank. I need more backlinks, but I think its coming.

Thanks for checking it out.

Great forum, well done

I'm now sure that you will particularly appreciate the SQL rewriting, it's really great to run the mixed mode with virtual folders and to be able to set keywords in urls for the most important topics.

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Ok. I think I understand your advice.

Thanks. I'll prepare to do that.