oh I see about the archive mod and vbulletin now.

Well, the same mod exist for phpBB but, again, these page will be duplicate content, even though, there are differences in the html code, I am pretty sure Bots do, or will, make no difference and understand it's duplicate content. And in all cases, this is one more page with the same search-able content, so it is less probability to be visiting either one of the two than to just be visiting one unique one.

Thus, Page Ranking will be jeopardized using this kind of tricks, even though is some case, it could end up helping out.
We all know a lot of web sites actually using balcklistable methods do show up in very good positions in search results.
I just do not like to play like this, because I am sure that in the end, Search Engines do not like this kind of things, because they create abnormal amount of content. And they almost all use human ranking as well, so, Bots are not the only one to deal with.
I really think that in order to Optimize the way our content can be found and ranked by search engine we need to keep in mind our interest is the exact same as for everybody, what is found must be related to what was searched. We don't want to make it impossible, and I am sure that "clean" sites, well categorised, and known to provide good answers to search queries will benefit.

Unicity in URL is I believe one the most important principle to follow while Search Engine Optimizing.

Then, talking about templates, I think everyone should use a unique template as well, there is nothing easier than finding out what are the sites using this template and to start categorising them upon such criteria in the digital world. And the same apply to human, unicity is always more attractive, at least IMHO

i found two other SEO mod for phpbb
and one premodded SEO phpbb
the first one

lo-fi mod
this mod tries to make some light page like VB and IPB

-http://www.phpbbxs.com/lo-fi-mod-vt3.html?&t=3

as you said this sort of mod can be harmful. i think sitemap module is much better than this. the installation of sitemap module is quite simple and saw its
effect with my own eyes


and the second one that is not free

-http://phpbb-seo.openland.cz/

its very similar to phpbb SEO mixed rewrite mod


and premodded phpbb

-http://www.seo-phpbb.org/

amir abbas wrote:i found two other SEO mod for phpbb
and one premodded SEO phpbb
the first one

lo-fi mod
this mod tries to make some light page like VB and IPB

-http://www.phpbbxs.com/lo-fi-mod-vt3.html?&t=3

They are just using the Webmedic mod Rewrite with it's very nice pagination -http://www.phpbbxs.com/2-vt1860.html?start=15

amir abbas wrote:and the second one that is not free

-http://phpbb-seo.openland.cz/

its very similar to phpbb SEO mixed rewrite mod

Well, here is what I found there while browsing un-logged :-http://phpbb-seo.openland.cz/phpbb-seo-discussion-3/relevant-link-exchange-9/?sid=e90f7e8fa43d2c0b416ad21ad824d083

Hu SID!

And no need to say this is too much for an URL : -http://phpbb-seo.openland.cz/phpbb-seo-discussion-3/relevant-link-exchange-9/music-related-reciprocal-link-offer-from-pr5-website-4/

I don't see the similarities with the phpBB SEO mixed mod Rewrite.

amir abbas wrote:and premodded phpbb

-http://www.seo-phpbb.org/

Now this one is outrageous, will perform one SQL per link lol.

So far, you'll still find things to do to enhance the phpBB SEO cooking, but IMHO the phpBB SEO mod Rewrite Base is the best one, and together with the Toolkit, it will be even more.

I plan to release the Zero Dupe Mod rewrite version for the phpBB SEO mod Rewrites (at least for the Mixed and Simple ones) very soon.

Wait a bit until the full toolkit I am thinking of will be released and all development stages ended.
I'll probably start to maintain a phpBB SEO premod as well, when the full phpBB SEO "suite" will be released.

And, the best part about our project here, is that we'll do more than share codes, we'll soon start experiments with Search Engines to start talking a bit about SEO strategy.
Because in the end, the most important will be to set up the proper strategy for every project.

That's why I decided from the very beginning to dev more than one mod rewrite solution and also took care of people not wishing to go for it. mx Google Sitemaps and mx Sitemaps, as well as the other phpBB SEO mods will works and give good results for vanilla URLs as well

The mxBB web-site installed the mod on the 27th of may, without even getting rid of SIDs.
It has then like 100 links listed, mostly with SIDs, and very few cached pages in Google.
Today is a totally different things 28 000 URLs listed, all cached. And guess what, we had about 10 user online average there and now it's more like 30

This to tell anyone doubting it, the goal here is to make it possible for any of us, not necessarily using phpBB, or a phpBB based script, to Search Engine Optimize his web-site, according to his projects needs and resources.

Much more than a mod, or a mod list.

For sure, right now, our dear first users are asked for some patience to really see the results, as SEO takes time to be effective, and to wait a bit to face a better user friendly web site.
I wish I could go faster in adding content and such here, but this dev phase is very important for the future.

Once all important enhancements here will be properly documented, easy to install in all cases and such, we'll start talking about more SEO things.

In all cases I am sure that when more users will have seen the results, everything will be different, more obvious maybe