Hello everyone, great forum and wish you best of luck with it. phpbb needs all the help it can get SEOwise.

Anyway, I run einvesting.com. I installed the able2know rewrite mod over a year ago and since then the Yahoo traffic has been excellent, but the Google traffic is HORRIBLE. (about 1/20th of yahoo traffic)

Just about all the indexed pages in googlefor einvesting are supplemental results (starting on page 2)..so for whatever reason it doesn't like the pages.

I think the major issue is that all the decriptions in google show up the same so they must look like duplicate pages.

My question is: Is there a fix for this? I don't want to lose my Yahoo traffic links if at all possible but would take the hit if I knew google would index the site better.

There are a LOT of able2know mod users that have this issue.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...Ben

And Welcome

Able2know mod rewrite in itself is a lot less efficient than each one of the phpBB SEO mod rewrites.

Because of the numerous duplicates it's allowing.

The phpBB SEO mod rewrites do not output any pagination duplicates and do only rewrite what is necessary (no advanced topic sorting and such). And they are a lot faster than the abl2know one.
If you add the zero duplicate mod, you'll be amazed to run a 100% duplicate free web site .

So this is a good reason to think about migrating to one of the phpBB seo mod rewrites (mixed or advanced would be my advise in your case).

Then, talking about the reason why Google is not really doing a good job on your forum, you're right, 1 single page outside the omitted results, with 10 600 listed URLs is just too bad.

You spotted correctly the reason for this, they all use the exact same meta tags, and if it's not as bad as if it was the title of the page to be static, it's still problematic.

Besides, PageRank was not transmitted to forums it seems.

So you can do several things, the first one being to take your time to properly define an SEO strategy.

The dynamic meta tag mod will as well solve you're Google issue.
You could only use the meta tag mod together with mx Google sitemaps module, as the mod is ready for able2know URLs as well, but, as said, you should migrate IMHO.

Reason to do so would be to get rid of all duplicates, which helps out a lot to show up better in SERPs, no more content dilution, no more content competition with itself.

And, this can be done without jeopardizing anything SEOwise thanks to the zero duplicate. The able2knwo cas started to be covered here : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-m ... vt303.html

The pphpBB SEO web site is itself aan example of the HTTP 301 redirection effect on Search engines, both forum recently went totally redirected without any penalty.

Steps are easy, once you've made up your mind about migrating and for which mod, please start a new thread and I'll help you out

Another thing you could do, is only install the dynamic meta tags for now, and wait a bit until the mod rewrite updates, which won't be too long from now. Teaser : -http://phpbbdev.phpbb-seo.net/ (look at the stats )

As you can see if you compare with the actual demo (take a look at the demo settings page) I changed the URL standard a bit, -vt to -t etc ...

It's because the mod will offer for every one to choose a custom URL standard very easy, and as well because the zero duplicate is ready. So that first user will be able to keep or redirect the -vt and new one the -t.

Since your web site is quite big, you should either wait the update or directly install the old one with the new delimiters, which I'd help you out to do.
This only if you prefer the -t -f -c standard, and in order to only redirect only once all your URLs, if you go for migration of course.

This is quite some information, as said, take you time, you're not on a rush, install the dynamic meta tags, and think about you're URLs

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Thanks much dcz, I really appreciate your very in depth customized answer!

I'll go ahead and install the dynamic meta tag mod and give it a little time to see how things go. From there I do need to install the no duplicates at some point.

At one point about 12 months ago I had both the able2know and the Google sitemaps mod running at the same time and had over 200,000 pages listed in Google (and every refresh of google added about 1500 more)! My site had only about 10,000 pages at the time! I hope google didn't see this as some sort of attack and sandbagged me.

Anyway, word to the wise don't run both of those at the same time!

Thanks again dcz...hopefully this page will get indexed soon and more able2know pilgrims will find this. Will keep you updated!

Ben

You're welcome

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