Hello everybody!

I'm spanish amateur webmaster, I have my forum with more that 2000 urls indexed by google, the forum have 2 years olds. I have use the Able2know.com but I have read here that this project is abandonated? is is correct??

I want use a mod to the future, for phpbb3, etc... then i don'r use a mod abandonated. however, if I migrate to this mod (php-seo.com mod) i have that set 301 redirects for all my indexed able2know urls??

Can I use the php-seo mod with my old able2know urls?? Moreover, I use a "minicustomised" able2know mod version in spanish language, my url's forum are foros-1.html instead forum-1.html and /foro/tema45.html instead /foro/about45.html - is it a big problem?

My forum url is www.nortejoven.com/foro I try install the sitemap and don't work: www.nortejoven.com/foro/sitemap.php the url get a 404 code, then I think that if I use the phpbb-seo mod I can use the sitemap and other addons more easy, but I can't miss all my work in the urls indexed in google... In the forum I have a hundreds that urls with my able2know url, for example http://www.nortejoven.com/foro/tema23.html

if i can use php-seo mod with this url, I change my mod now!! jeje

Regards from spain and sorry for my bad english

And welcome

So I split the topic to make it easier for the new mod rewrites.

So, migrating always follow the same principle, what we want is both our older URL and our newer one to work .htaccess side, so that we'll be able to http redirect older to newer ones.

You could imagine to keep you old urls even with the phpBB SEO mod rewrites, it's actually very easy, but, you could take this occasion to migrate at least to the mixed mod rewrite.
The able2knwo equivalent here is the simple mod rewrite, it's very handy and eazy to use, as you'll mostly won't need patches, but using the forum title in their url is a great SEO enhancement.

For topics, it depends on your project, if your average topic title is good enough to be used in URLs.

It's not always the case.

So these are the first few choices. Keeping old urls as a standard (but getting rid of all dupes) or upgrade to the mixed or the advanced phpBB SEO mod rewrite while migrating.

Once you'll have made up your mind about this, we'll go further in details

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hello again and thanks for tou answer

However, i decide use the able2know mod because I think that is more easy his implementation.

Moreover, i use the "last topic mod" in my index page, and I have a forum in a subfolder, then with simple mod or able2know I can make /foro/tema45.html urls easiest.

Sorry for my bad english

Regards!

Well, if you switch to the simple mod rewrite, it will be as easy to deal with as the abl2know mod rewrite, and as easy to install too.

Beside, you'll be able to keep you current URL if you prefer, but not the duplicates

It's really easy to do, try downloading it, and test it on a local server, you'll see.

All the url settings to change everything you want are in phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_class.php

The settings that matters with the simple one are :

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      $this->seo_ext = array('cat' => '.html',
         'forum' => '.html',
         'topic' => '.html',
         'user' => '.html',
         'gz_ext' => '',
      );
      $this->seo_static = array('cat' => 'cat',
         'forum' => 'forum',
         'topic' => 'topic',
         'post' => 'post',
         'user' => 'member',
         'start' => '-',
         'gz_ext' => '.gz',
         'index' => ''
      );

Pretty simple, you can decide to use .html, or .htm or .php or even / or whatever you'd like for each type of extensions (cat, forum, topic users) and the same with the static part.

By default it's cat for cat, forum for forum, member for member and topic for topics, but you can edit these here to what you want

It will work everywhere as long as you update the .htaccess accordingly.

And the same, you should then keep the old rewriterules at the bottom of the new .htaccess, letting the zero dupe redirect all dupes

Duplicate reduction is really a major SEO enhancement.

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         'index' => ''

Stands for the forum index url, by default empty means the links won't show index.php for forum index, you can put index.html or what you prefer si as well you update the .htaccess.
The zero dupe is following these settings as well as all phpBB SEO mod rewrites.
This mean you'll be able to install any phpBB SEO modules such as GYM sitemaps without changing anything.

To me, all this make it really worth editing three files.

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Thanks thanks, but I prefer use the able2know because he have more sites indexed in google than you

Good luck

Thanks!

Is posible that in the future I use your mod, but at the moment I use the able2know. My url is www.nortejoven.com/foro - You say that your mod is prepared for the phpbb 3.0 and the able2konw is abandoned... in the future your mod will be famous

Regards from spain and thanks for all!

able2know seo

able2know mod

What is it? That you url appear before that able2know?

And as you mentioned phpBB SEO is a lot younger than able2know, so it was just to show you that dupe reduction is a good thing, there are no duplicate listed in search engine on this domain, and this helps quite a lot building PageRank and go up in SERP.

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ok

I understand you dcz. is posible in the future that I use your mod... I put your url to my bookmarks