phpBB SEO Premod

• Title : phpBB SEO Premod
• Author : dcz / http://www.phpbb-seo.com
• Description : The phpBB SEO Premod is a fully Search Engine Optimization friendly premodded version of phpBB.
• Version : phpBB3.0.5
• Installation Level : As easy as phpBB.
• Installation Time : 15 minutes.

Author's Notes :
This mod is not really a mod. It's a full install package of a premodded phpBB forum Optimized for Search Engines.

• Before you do anything :
  
  • Please read carefully phpBB SEO Ultimate SEO URL Presentation, you will save time and will not risk to jeopardise your web-site's PageRanking.
  • Reading this phpBB SEO premod 3.0.5 released! is a well a good thing to start with.
  • Activating the URL rewriting requires Apache Server with mod_Rewrite module loaded, or IIS server running isapi_rewrite
• Features :
  You should read the release threads of every mods installed to find out more about them.
  
  • phpBB SEO Ultimate SEO URL
    This Premod will allow you to choose among the following URL rewriting standards in phpBB ACP :
    
    • Ultimate SEO URL in Advanced mode
      
      • Advanced URL rewriting for phpBB URLs, injecting forums and topic titles in their URLs, each URL being rewritten once, no matter the number of links using it on the page.
      • The mod will allow you to dissociate forum titles from their URLs, you will be able to choose the keywords used in your forums URLs using a friendly interface.
      • The Advanced mod is the "harder" to deal with, it implies a good topic title moderation to really be better than the Mixed one.
      • This feature requires running Apache server with mod_rewrite module loaded, or IIS server running isapi_rewrite.
    • Ultimate SEO URL in Mixed mode
      
      • Mixed URL rewriting for phpBB URLs, injecting forums titles in their URLs but keeping a static default rewriting for topics.
      • Each URL is rewritten once, no matter the number of links using it on the page.
      • The mod will allow you to dissociate forum titles from their URLs, you will be able to choose the keywords used in your forums URLs using a friendly interface.
      • The Mixed mod is recommended in most cases, the better easy to deal with / SEO performance ratio of the three standards.
      • This feature requires running Apache server with mod_rewrite module loaded, or IIS server running isapi_rewrite.
    • Ultimate SEO URL in Simple mode
      
      • Simple URL rewriting for phpBB URLs, static URL rewriting.
      • Each URL is rewritten once, no matter the number of links using it on the page.
      • It's the simplest one, recommended for 100% non Latin char-set forums.
      • This feature requires running Apache server with mod_rewrite module loaded, or IIS server running isapi_rewrite.
  • GYM SItemaps & RSS
    
    • This module will create United Sitemaps (Aka Google sitemaps), RSS 2.0 feeds, site maps and news pages for for phpBB.
    • It fully supports Gun-zip cache for all types of outputs and some XSL-Transform styling for Sitemaps and RSS feeds.
      phpBB SEO mod rewrites are auto detected with all settings.
    • Please note :
      • GYM Sitemaps & RSS is released at RC stage, the install is thus left separated from the regular install.
      • It's up to you to use it or not, but you should know that at this stage, some feature may not be implemented and bugs may still be found.
      • Please read the install file and release thread for more details.
        
      • IMPORTANT :
        GYM sitemaps and RSS is likely to be updated before the premod, it will be up to you to keep it up to date meanwhile, you can be notified about updates by subscribing to the release thread while logged in :
        GYM Sitemaps & RSS module
  • phpBB SEO Zero duplicate
    
    • This feature will HTTP 301 redirect almost (100% in strict mode) all possible dupes in phpBB forums.
      It's simple and efficient. It does not add any SQL Query.
    • Please note :
      It is very important that you make sure the proper headers are sent.
      Please read the release thread to learn how to perform the check.
    • Example :
      

      • Code: Select all

        http://www.phpbb-seo.com/en/is-this/a-duplicate-t1220.html

      • Code: Select all

        http://www.phpbb-seo.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=1220

      The zero duplicate in itself is enhancing phpBB's security since it will make malicious variable injections a lot harder if not impossible in strict mode on the supported files.
  • phpBB SEO No duplicate
    
    • This feature will get rid of post URLs on phpBB Index, forums, and topics and use topic url instead, for the same purpose, but not using duplicate URLs.
    • Post URLs will now be composed of the topic URL they are posted in, on the correct page, with the html anchor #pxx as a suffix.
    • It does not add any SQL, just a LEFT JOIN on a query already being performed, this could still mean a bit more work but should not be a problem for server load.
    • You can turn it on / off in phpBB's ACP.
  • phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta tags
    
    • This feature will add dynamic meta tags build out with the ending page's content.
      It's simple and efficient. It will add specific meta tags to forums and the index without adding any SQL Query.
    • A single SQL query is added in viewtopic.php, to grab the first post's most used words. This allow for a better overall relevancy of meta keywords.
    • The first post of every topic pages is used to build the meta description. BBcodes tags are stripped off as well as smilies
  • phpBB SEO Optimal titles
    
    • This mod will optimize phpBB pages titles.
      By Default, page titles contain many useless information, such as "View Forum" or "View topic".
      This mod will better target words to use in titles, using topics, and forums titles.
      In addition, this mod will add the page's number in page title, which allow for a lot better pagination indexing. As two pages with the same title are hard to keep in SEPRS.
      All this without any SQL queries.
    • Results talks :
      Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12, Page 13, Page 14, Page 15, Page 16, Page 17, Page 18, Page 19, Page 20, Page 21, Page 22 ...
      
      A must, whatever your SEO strategy.
  • robots.txt
    A sample robots.txt is provided in the package to make sure no useless content is taken into account by the Search Engines.
    Warning :
    
    • In case you are migrating from a previous unrewritten phpBB version, wait couple month after you activate the zero duplicate mod before you implement the robots.txt. In such case we want to redirect first and then drop useless content.

Languages :

• English and French are included in the Package.
• French speaking release thread.

Styles :

• Prosilver and SubSilver2 are included in this Package

Download:

• phpBB SEO Premod V 3.0.5

To obtain support for this mod, please use the phpBB3 SEO Premod forum.

You can post new threads and reply to existing ones.

Click on the Watch this thread link bellow to be notified of updates for this mod.

Please note that all type of upgrade from phpBB2 to phpBB3 will change all your topic url, no matter if you use or not mod rewrite, so upgrading is in all case something to prepare well.

Updates

• Make sure you read the release announcement thread.

[EDIT] Important
We have found a late bug in gym_sitemaps/includes/gym_sitemaps.php which resulted into adding an extra delimiter (-t) in topic url when the topic_url field was filed.
This is only concerning GYM, but rather than maintaining a broken package on-line, we've updated all 3.0.5 packages (including the update packages), without renumbering, with GYM2.0.RC5 to make is easier for user downloading the SEO premod starting from now.
User who would have updated before this edit was added to the announcement need to do the following :

• Download the full archive again (SEO Premod 3.0.5),
• Upload all file from root/gym_sitemaps/ to phpBB/gym_sitemaps/, meaning you overwrite them all,
• Upload root/includes/acp/acp_gym_sitemaps.php and root/includes/acp/info/acp_gym_sitemaps.php to phpBB/includes/acp/acp_gym_sitemaps.php and phpBB/includes/acp/info/acp_gym_sitemaps.php, meaning you overwrite these two files,
• Browse gym_sitemaps/gym_install.php in update mod to update GYM version.

No file editing is involved.
We apologise for the inconvenience.