Just a guess, but does your page include a <base> tag? Something like this:

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<base href="http://www.phpbb-seo.com/en/"/>

It should be set to the forum root. Maybe you missed this part of the mod in overall_header.html?

I don't believe it helps you (significantly) from a SEO perspective and it might have drawbacks. I'm not convinced search engines care one whit about the presence of lookup keys like -t9999 in the URL. Ebay and Amazon, to name only two sites, have immense server capacity and yet have apparently dec...

I definitely understand why this isn't an option -- very little SEO gain. I expect that it might slow down a big board too. You'd also need to do a uniqueness check anytime a user creates a new topic. I agree those are all good reasons it wasn't written that way. On the other hand, not all news sit...

Never as fast as you hope. Nobody really knows, but my guess is that SEO changes take months to show progress.

Hmm-m, I don't believe that Googlebot et al care about the underlying web server technology. If your site is easy for users to navigate and has good content, bots will be happy too.

Check out the sticky on phpBB: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2122696 I take a more aggressive stance and ban Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail registrations (i.e., add *@gmail.* *@yahoo.*, *@hotmail.* in the ACP). Users of those domain can register, but must be explicitly unblocke...

Just a guess, but maybe zero dup isn't enabled in the ACP.

What do you mean? Something like this? http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/t ... ouse_over/

Tip: If you want people to help you, don't make them guess what you need help with. Otherwise they may choose to ignore you.

Would you elaborate?

I would like to rewrite the next and previous into the Titel of the previous and next Topic. I still am not clear what you're trying to accomplish. You want "next" and "previous" in the title? Or a next/previous link? Maybe if you post a screenshot with annotations I can offer s...

All the transforms are in setup_phpbb_seo.php, but judging from my quick look, they're not coded such that the order in the format can be easily changed. Sorry.

You said "sitemaps and rss not showing and not working plz". Sorry, that's not enough information. Not showing where? Not working how?

Why do you have R=301 specified? And is QSA missing? I think you want to map it without sending a redirect back to the browser, i.e., [QSA,L,NC] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html QSA|qsappend When the replacement URI contains a query string, the default behavior of RewriteRule ...

I'm not sure what previous / next links you mean, but wouldn't they be 301 redirected to the canonical URL anyway? If you have zero dupe, there's only one URL and all other variants of it are redirected.

Without looking into the problem you describe, I have to ask: Why not upgrade to the latest version? phpBB 3.0.5 dates back to 2009 (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1625005) and there has undoubtedly been many security fixes since then.