phpBB Search Engine Optimization Feedback

[acapellas4u]

• I hope you enjoyed the stats & effort put into bbcode

A lot

From 3900 to 10 800 indexed pages in Google, you must have gone through some increase in referrals.

Though, you still did not installed the zero duplicate, and should really think about the optimal title mod IMHO.
I'm sure it would make a sensible difference in the end

About yahoo and overture, it depends on what did you do exactly. Because Yahoo for sure prefers SEOed site as well

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I've just taken a look at the 0d and optimal title mods but it's either that I'm really out of touch or I'm really rather scared at the thought of doing any additional SEO improvements.

The titles mod - I'm not so sure about as our topic titling leaves a lot to be desired and with regards to the 0d mod, how do I know IF there are any dupes as it is dcz?

Regards.

[dcz]

All the post urls (postxx.html) are duplicate, and there is up to 15 per topic page, so it's quite a lot in the end.

Installing the zero duplicate would really help out IMHO.

About title, the problem is two pages with the exact same title will tend to exclude each other in SERPS.

And you do not take advantage of the important weight of page title to go up in SERPS with good articles. You narrow the possible search match in a far from neglectible way.

It's not really a big deal if some of your forum topics do not have a perfect title, they most likely are not the best content you have anyway, and at least, they would not interfere with the really good ones, with good titles.
Besides, you can for the best ones edit the topic title to select some better and personalized keywords

About changing your title, to me, it would only be better for SE, in the end finding some more ways to categorise your content.

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[ultimatehandyman]

Since having the phpbbseo mods installed on my forum the most ever users has moved from 240 to 743

These mods are fantastic and have made a definate difference

[dcz]

Great

[mgl]

just to thank you guys. i've just found out that i have pr 2 and I was pr 0 three months ago. Thank you for your excellent mods!

[dcz]

Great

And you're welcome

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[Rick_M71]

Report for Med-Psych.com

Date : 4/13/08
Forum URL : Med-Psych.com

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages :

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=site:
  pages (15 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:
  pages (19 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=site:
  pages (1 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=site:
  pages (19 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 3
• Predicted Google PageRank : 3

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes - Pre-mod phpbb3 (Which one if applicable)

• mx Google Sitemaps : No
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : No.

Additional comments

Tried posting and timed out and lost message. Kinda stinks. I bought an expired domain and set this up in January. phpBB3 with a Joomla home page to show recent threads. I haven't done much with the site aside from only one or two threads at that time, and it looks like it only recently got fully indexed. The Joomla recent threads are not SEO URL's, so they were redirected via zero duplicate to the SEO URL's. I knew eventually Google would figure them out, but I know not much page rank is getting passed this way. I saw that now NV's recent threads mod has been adapted for phpbb-seo so I'm going to implement it now. I'm also starting to get a little more activity in the forums (from zero). My plan is to do the following: 1) Add NV's recent topics mod, but with SEO url's 2) replace Joomla with the phpbb3 home page with recent topics 3) Keep the forum threads at the same URL's via redirects (I think somewhere in phpbb-seo I saw a way to do that fairly easily

As my site is already fully indexed, a better measure of success (I assume quicker indexing with the proposed changes as well as better passage of page rank form the home page) would be unique visitors. In February I had 80, March 155, and so far in April 122.

[SeO]

Tried posting and timed out and lost message. Kinda stinks.

I know this is painful. FF does fix the issue though, you get your message back when going on the last visited page upon such failures.

I get 9 pages indexed for the forum in Google, it's few, but it's full crawl with :

Total posts 10 • Total topics 10

You did a great job installing our mods, all you need now is more content.

[Rick_M71]

Report for Med-Psych.com

Date : 6/25/08
Forum URL : Med-Psych.com

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages :

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=site:
  pages (22 )
• Yahoo : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:
  pages (35 )
• MSN Search : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=site:
  pages (36 )
• Altavista : http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=site:
  pages (35 )

Google PageRank

• Google PageRank : 3
• Predicted Google PageRank : 3

Search Engine Optimizations :

mod Rewrite : Yes - Pre-mod phpbb3 (Which one if applicable)

• mx Google Sitemaps : No
• mx Sitemaps : No
• Others : No.

Additional comments

As I mentioned above, I implemented some of the changes I planned. I got rid of Joomla and I moved the forums from the subdirectory to root. I also added the recent topics to the front page of the site. I had thought unique visitors would have been the best measure at the time, but I find I'm getting a lot of "spam" visitors so I think the best measure of success now is the number of referrals from search engines. Based on AWstats, I have:

June (not over yet):
Google 89, Windows Live 13, Yahoo 3, Unknown 2, AOL 1

May:
Google 73, Windows Live 2, Yahoo 1

April:
Google 65, Yahoo 13, Windows Live 3, MSN Search 2

So, it appears I was able to implement the changes I wanted and still gain some traffic. This is all on a site that has almost no links pointing to the site and I added only 2 threads over the last 2 months. This site was mainly a place for me to test out the software and I think it performs excellently. I've decided to switch over another site to phpbb seo that gets a lot more traffic and things seem to be going very well. I appreciate all of the work that went into this!

[SeO]

Way to go

[Rick_M71]

Report for Med-Psych.com

Date : 8/23/09
Forum URL : Med-Psych.com

Indexing :
Absolute number of pages :

• Google : http://www.google.com/search?hl=all&q=s ... -psych.com
  pages (60 )
  
  Google PageRank
  
  • Google PageRank : 2
  • Predicted Google PageRank : 2
  Search Engine Optimizations :
  
  mod Rewrite : Yes - Pre-mod phpbb3 (Which one if applicable)
  
  • Google Sitemaps : Yes
  • Others : No.
  Additional comments
  
  
  Just adding a few posts every now and then I've gotten a few topics that seem to generate a decent amount of traffic. The months quoted below without a year listed are from 2008 from my previous post. I'm adding the 2009 data for the past few months:
  
  August 2009 (not over yet):
  Google 1195, Aol 15, Yahoo 7, Ask 2, Windows Live 1
  
  July 2009:
  Google: 995, Windows Live 10, Ask 9, Yahoo 7, Aol 2
  
  June (not over yet):
  Google 89, Windows Live 13, Yahoo 3, Unknown 2, AOL 1
  
  May:
  Google 73, Windows Live 2, Yahoo 1
  
  April:
  Google 65, Yahoo 13, Windows Live 3, MSN Search 2
  
  You can see with a very small increase in content added, and very low pagerank, I still increased my google referrals by over 10x.
  

[dcz]

I still increased my google referrals by over 10x.

Great

Referrals are what matter the most SEOwise

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