Hi DCZ,
I finally thought of installing Advanced SEO Mod. Now I'd see its a beauty. Still I have some questions to ask:

Well the Beta got better than I thought. I have Able2know Mod installed previously. I removed the static url Mod of Able2know from the files. Then installed cyberalien Mod. Then I installed Advanced SEO Mod. After the Advanced Zero dupe Mod. After that Optimal_titlesV_1 Mod.

Now the problem is: On the index page recent post in front of each is displaying 404 error. Normally all the forums are opening ok. But when I click on the recent post in the index page it shows a 404 error.

Please kindly solve my problem. I am providing my Beta testing url for Search Engines. Coz they'll start crawling it. I'll PM you DCZ.

I am in a way of installing some more Mods before the forums are shifted back.

Plus One more thing: Now I am thinking of shifting the forums to a directory and installing MxBB for main site.


Now my question: Is there a way to Redirect (301) the search engines to the page which are previously on the -www.domain.com/about.html to -www.domain.com/forums/new-about.html

Coz this is surely going to effect my ranking.

Also is MxBB completely SEOed.

Come on guys.. someone reply me. i guess DCZ made Mods for reply users.

cybersaber wrote:i guess DCZ made Mods for reply users.

Stop guessing

All right, so you just missed this post about how to migrate from the able2know mod rewrite to the phpBB SEO advanced one.

You just need to keep the old able2know rewriterules up and running at the end of your new .htaccess to allow the zero duplicate to do it's job, will redirect everything this way

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Alright copied the able2know rewrite rules into the beta site's .htaccess

alright now I have another problem:

the beta site is located on a sub-domain (lets say xyz.mydomain.com)

now when I open an url which was previously

xyz.mydomain.com/postXX.html#XX where XX is any number

it changes in the topic keywords... like

mydomain.com/ypn-launching-inter.html#99

But instead of sub-domain, it loads from main domain.

My .htaccess file is as below. I'd like some help dcz

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES            #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php [QSA,L]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
RewriteRule ^.+/([^/]+\.html)$ /index.php [R=301,L]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^.*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^.*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^.*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^.*-t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^.*-t([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
# POST
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]
#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ /profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#####################################################
###################################################### # able2know rewriterules
#we keep them to kill them ;-)

###################################################### # able2know rewriterules
#we keep them to kill them ;-)
RewriteRule ^forums.* /index.php [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) /viewtopic.php?p=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?p=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^view-poll([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&vote=viewresult [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) /viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&view=newest /viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=newest [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html /viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^mark-forum([0-9]*).html* /viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topics [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^updates-topic([0-9]*).html* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&watch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^stop-updates-topic([0-9]*).html* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&unwatch=topic [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).html /viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).* /viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^topic-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* /viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next [L,NC]

Ho, this is really nothing, this is just because the phpBB config table must mention the main domain as server name.

If you're running you testing forum on the same db as the other one, you can just hard code the phpbb url in phpbb_seo_class.php, to bypass the code grabbing it from the config and be able to test everything before you switch.

The redirection is beside correct, no more duplicate, zero

Just make sure about header and check the albel2know style url a bit, and you'll be done with installing the zero dupe.

To hard code you phpbb url, find :

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      $this->seo_path['phpbb_url'] = $this->seo_path['root_url'] . $this->seo_path['phpbb_script'];

replace with :

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      $this->seo_path['phpbb_url'] = 'http://xyz.mydomain.com';

And don't forget to put the original code back when you'll switch the real web site.

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Damn .. I remember it now... I uploaded a new database abd changed the path to xyz.my_domain.com now it works fine. Thanx dcz

Plus One more thing: Now I am thinking of shifting the forums to a directory like my_domain.com/forums and installing MxBB for main site.


Now my question: Is there a way to Redirect (301) the search engines to the page which are previously on the -www.domain.com/about.html to -www.domain.com/forums/new-about.html

Coz this is surely going to effect my ranking.

Also is MxBB completely SEOed.

come on dcz I am wating for a perfect answer from you. and I dont see Moderators replying to me. Well no offense but any particular reasons ??

cybersaber wrote:come on dcz I am wating for a perfect answer from you. and I dont see Moderators replying to me. Well no offense but any particular reasons ??

No particular reason beside time, but bumping like this could end up being one

Anyway, mxBB is not fully SEOed yet, there is a mod basic mod rewrite in it, so it's already something, but it's not as powerful as the phpBB SEO mod rewrites for phpBB. If you go for it, I suggest you keep using the forum independently from the portal, mx_phpbb is really not SEOed.

Moving the forum folder is an option as long as you redirect proper.

In your case, as you want to redirect root to folder, we cannot really do it all at once.

But since you where previously using the abble2know mod rewrite, we can just take care of the abl2know Rewriterules, to fully handle the redirection in two steps.

To do this you'd need to use this at then end of your root's .htaccess, after the new phpBB SEO rewriterules :

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#we keep them to kill them ;-)
RewriteRule ^forums.* /new_folder/index.php [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) /new_folder/viewtopic.php?p=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]*).* /viewtopic.php?p=$1 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^view-poll([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&vote=viewresult [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&highlight=([a-zA-Z0-9]*) /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&highlight=$2 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html&view=newest /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=newest [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zA-Z]*)-([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&postdays=$2&postorder=$3&start=$4 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]*).html /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2&postdays=$3&postorder=$4&highlight=$5 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^mark-forum([0-9]*).html* /new_folder/viewforum.php?f=$1&mark=topics [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^updates-topic([0-9]*).html* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&watch=topic [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^stop-updates-topic([0-9]*).html* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&unwatch=topic [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).html /new_folder/viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewforum.php?f=$1 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^topic-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewforum.php?f=$1&topicdays=$2&start=$3 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^ptopic([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=previous [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^ntopic([0-9]*).* /new_folder/viewtopic.php?t=$1&view=next [L,NC,R=301]

This way aboutxx.html would firt be http 301 redirected to viewtopic.php?t=xx and then, thanks to the zero dupe, to topic-title-txx.html.

The first redirection is costless, it won't make migrating heavier.

And to conclude, you're not is a rush to install all this, the important matter is to install it right, and so far, you're doing a great job testing before you go online, bots can wait a couple more days ya know

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Yes that's right. The main thing I am concentrating is on 301 Redirect part. Also are you people going to release any portal Mod.

Well, with time

So how is it going installing so far ?

Well I hope you'll release a portal Mod sooner. Still I have some issues with your mods.

1. As you in this url:
hxxp://www.yahoofanclub.com/about1768.html
In the meta tags of this url you'll see alot of meaningless words like: Still, add, one, someone, still back,... Accroding to the main keywords should be "Yahoo Beta EMail Problems" and Yahoo Beta email etc etc.

Here are the meta keywords tags:
<meta name="keywords" content="accessing,activate,add,another,back,default,email,emaili,gina2601,help,hii,i,inbox,log,looks,made,one,problemswitched,someone,still" />

Also I prefer to have some changes in the description tag. Normally it points the complete address like Forum index name: Forum name: Topic name.
Here are the meta description tags:
<meta name="description" content="YahooFanClub :: Chat & Mail Forum :: Yahoo Mail Forum :: Yahoo Beta EMail Problems" />

But I prefer some words from the posts instead of "YahooFanClub :: Chat & Mail Forum :: Yahoo Mail Forum :: Yahoo Beta EMail Problems"

I want 25 words from the post in description like:
"Hi--I am having trouble accessing my email. When I log in I get my Yahoo home page but it looks as if another email.."

2. Also in my original phpbb board I have changed somethings in lang_main.php

//
// Index page
//
$lang['Index'] = 'YahooFanClub :: Yahoo forum for discussions about YPN, Yahoo Messenger and all Yahoo services.';
$lang['No_Posts'] = 'No Posts';
$lang['No_forums'] = 'This board has no forums';

This way Main site displays "YahooFanClub :: Yahoo forum for discussions about YPN, Yahoo Messenger and all Yahoo services." instead of Site name and Description given in Acp.

This helps me in two things. My Title is changed to what I want and the Forum Index written on the main page is different than the Title I use on the Main page. Is there a way to do the same with your Mod. ???

3. Some more Mods I'd like to install.

Like a BookMark mod.
Similar Topics Mods which provides similar topics in the end of a Topic like Vbulletin Board.

Also I am looking for a User Control Panel where the users can edit their settings with view the topics they are subscribed to.

And "Who is online" in Viewforum and View topic.

Well these are not demands but only requests

Well, it looks like this is off topic, as it does not concern your migration.

Meta tags should be discussed elsewhere, and I think you should read this post about how to optimise the meta keywords while optimizing your forum's db tables.

About your index text link, the phpBB mod rewrite won't do anything about it, it will stay as is.

About similar topics, try searching on this forum, you'll find mods and patches to implement it on your forum

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well I am completely ready for the migration now. Still I want some suggestion from you. The forum is hosted on the main domain. do you think i should shift it to a sub-domain like forums.mysite.com or in a folder mysite.com/forums ....

forums.mysite.com sounds a bit more professional but it will take away all the content from the main domain. also is it easy to shift all the threads to a folder... I mean a 301 redirect.

Plus I installed mxbb offline and I need to create a new template for my site.

Well, you can go for both, sub folder or sub domain. As far as redirecting, it's pretty much the same, we'd redirect all the able2know urls and why not the natural one too since there could be some need for it too (links could be posted somewhere).

Now, you're right to note that going for a sub-domain could empty your main domain a bit too much.

It's all a matter of knowing what you'll do with the main domain, it you have plan for growth, and knowing you'd have to post baklcinks for both subdomain and main one (SEO wise, they are almost like two separate domains), you can go for it.
With time, and if both sub and main domain do grow in content, it can be a bit better in SERPss.
s.

Tell me what you decide, and I'll give you the redirections

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