phpBB Search Engine Optimization Feedback

[Darth Pincho]

For the First report :

Report for

Date : 09/10/2006 (dd/mm/yy)
Forum URL : http://www.tupincho.net

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages :

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... .net/foro/
  pages ( 133 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:w ... .net/foro/
  pages ( 34 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=si ... .net/foro/
  pages ( 49 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q= ... .net/foro/
  pages ( 125 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 2
• Predicted Google PageRank : cannot determine for www.tupincho.net/foro/

Search Engine Optimizations :

• mod Rewrite : Yes (Mixed)
• mx Google Sitemaps : Yes
• mx Sitemaps : Yes
• Others : Yes (Dynamic meta tags, Rebuild search tables, www issue, SID out with cyber aliens mod, and zerodupe for mod rewrite by DCZ)

Ive just finish installing all that mods. Lets wait and see what happens

[dcz]

I am sure you board is going to experience a better indexing soon

[JanoF]

For the First report :

Report for

Date : 25/11/2006 (dd/mm/yy)
Forum URL : http://www.pcforum.sk/

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : 122001 (rough estim 7165 topics, 78816 posts)

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... pcforum.sk
  pages ( 85 200 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:www.pcforum.sk
  pages ( 17 992 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=si ... pcforum.sk
  pages ( 509 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q= ... pcforum.sk
  pages ( 18 300 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 4
• Predicted Google PageRank : 5

Search Engine Optimizations :

• mod Rewrite : Yes (phpBB SEO Advanced mod Rewrite)
• mx Google Sitemaps : yes
• mx Sitemaps : no
• Others : Yes

//JanoF: UPDATE

[dcz]

Nice work, and without mx Google sitemaps

Google did find your new URLs quite well, I am sure you're already experimenting more visitors.

With this many topics, I think you should install at least mx google sitemaps, to help out Google finding the new content even faster.

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[Darth Pincho]

im fully agree with dcz in this regard

[JanoF]

Nice work, and without mx Google sitemaps

Google did find your new URLs quite well, I am sure you're already experimenting more visitors.

With this many topics, I think you should install at least mx google sitemaps, to help out Google finding the new content even faster.

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Ok, thx, I will try it cast on on forum, seo already use cca 1 year, maybe too more the first what I am made use of to have been phpBB google keyword URLs 2.3.1

[dcz]

Ok, that's why, you almost did not change your URL standard, so Google is working since a long time on your site.

I still think mx Google sitemaps will help out to, maybe you should turn mod rewrite on for the sitemaps links, not very important for this version, but will with the next one

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[nims]

Report for http://www.newindianmodels.com/forum/

Date : 25th November 2006
Forum URL : http://www.newindianmodels.com/forum/

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : ? ( Topics 107, Posts 249 )

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... com/forum/
  pages ( 7 cached total 25 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:h ... com/forum/
  pages ( 118 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=si ... com/forum/
  pages ( 0 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q= ... com/forum/
  pages (0 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : www.NewIndianModels.com :: 4
  www.NewIndianModels.com/forum/ :: 0
• Predicted Google PageRank : www :: 3 : /forum/ :: cannot determine

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes (Advanced phpbb seo MOD)

• mx Google Sitemaps : Yes
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : Yes.
  - phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags
  - no dupe MOD

Additional comments

• Advanced seo MOD applied on 18th october 2006.
• www site functional since 2000
• /forum/ functional since 07 Aug 2006
  

[dcz]

I am sure we'll soon start to see some results

You forum is quite new to search engines, but the caching already started, so it's only a matter of time before you'll see a lot more pages in these lists.

Work on adding backlinks and content on a regular basis and you'll be pleased

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[Peter77]

For the First report :

Report for Forum Name

Date : 12/16/2006
Forum URL : http://www.frekuenciadigital.com/foros/

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : How many pages in your forum, even approximated

• Google : About 14. I havn't installed robots.txt yet.
  
• [b]Yahoo : URL not found
  
  
• MSN Search : did not find any results ... yet
  
  
• Altavista : 0 results
  
  

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 0
• Predicted Google PageRank : N/A

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes ( Mixed MOD rewrite )

• mx Google Sitemaps : No
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : CyberAliens Guest session MOD.
  

Additional comments

Originally, it was hosted on a subdomain of mine. The community grew bigger then expected and now the Radio has it's own domain. I will update This report around March or April of '07.

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[Peter77]

For the First report :

Report for Forum Name

Date : 12/16/2006
Forum URL : http://www.juarol.com/sucasa/

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : How many pages in your forum, even approximated

• Google : 5,910 ( was 12,000 )
  
• [b]Yahoo : Pages (5,006) | Inlinks (2,974)
  
• MSN Search : About 140 page results / 673 backlinks
  
  
• Altavista : 5,390 results
  
  

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 3
• Predicted Google PageRank : 3

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes ( Advanced MOD rewrite )

• mx Google Sitemaps : Yes
• mx Sitemaps : Yes
• Others : CyberAliens Guest session MOD. phpBB SEO Dynamic Meta Tags
  

Additional comments

N/A

[fabikus]

Report for Fuoriditesta.it

Date : 01/29/2007
Forum URL : http://forum.fuoriditesta.it

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : 30526 threads and 615826 messages

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... ditesta.it
  pages ( 30,800 )
• Yahoo : http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/se ... ditesta.it
  pages ( 27,373)
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=si ... ditesta.it
  pages ( 116 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q= ... ditesta.it
  pages ( 27.700)

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 4
• Predicted Google PageRank : 4

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes (Advanced Mod Rewrite 0.2.0)

• mx Google Sitemaps : Yes
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : Yes.
  - Zero Dupe MOD
  - Simple Subforum Mod Rewrite MOD

[dcz]

Really nice indexing

You may see the number of indexed page decrease a bit with the zero dupe, as you'll kill them all

But this will be better for SERPs and Page-Ranking.



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[HB]

Report for www.home-barista.com

Date : 02 Feb 2007
Forum URL : http://www.home-barista.com/forums/

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages : 2,461 topics and 29,042 posts, est. 8,000 pages

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... com/forums
  pages ( 6,900 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:w ... com/forums
  pages ( 7,927 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=si ... com/forums
  pages ( 203 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q= ... arista.com
  pages ( 8,060 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 5
• Predicted Google PageRank : same

Search Engine Optimizations :

• mod Rewrite : Advanced 0.2.2 + Zero Dupe
• mx Google Sitemaps : Yes
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : Optimized Title, Dynamic Metatags (partial), guest sessions, various mods including own pagination duplicate cleanup

Additional comments

Prior to installing phpbb-seo's mods, I cobbled together SEO modifications from various sites and articles (e.g., in phpbb.com knowledge base). There was no robots.txt rules for the forums in the site's early days and the search engines indexed the viewtopic.php?p= pages; it took a few months for google et al to drop them. Since the zero dupe mod is installed, I've removed that rule, hoping the site may pick up a few more backlinks that were previously ignored.

[dcz]

Excellent

This will as well be a very nice example of migration.

You did really a good job for this, you exactly followed the required steps for a migration with this many pages indexed.

As the switch was instant, it should be quite different at the end of the month, the zero dupe will have gotten rid of most of the older URLs (here vanilla ones) and the dupes as well, I know you did a good job with your robots.txt, but you'll reduce the pagination ones, and they are many.

In you case, I don't think you'll see drastic changes in indexing, besides the url updates, but you should experience a boost in SERPS after the migration will end

Bots must be crawling like crazy nuts right now

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