Good point, the # isn't like those pesky ? parameters. At the risk of going further off topic, is the terminating slash really necessary? For example: -http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-google-sitemaps-vt21-225.html#4140 versus: -http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-goog...

OK, I see. You redirected: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=4126 To a newly minted topic URL with the post number tagged on the end: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods/mx-google-sitemaps-vt21-210.html#4126 I assume Google is smart enough not to treat these as duplicates? h...

Sorry, I'm not making myself clear. Prior to the robots.txt change, google indexed thousands of viewtopic?p= links, 9 out of 10 which were duplicates of the top-level viewtopic?t= link. When I finally figured out what was happening, I blocked the viewtopics?p= links in robots.txt and started using s...

Well, http 301 is for sure a lot faster than robots.txt, have you read this ? True, but I am asking the search engine to drop the viewtopic?p= completely to avoid a duplicate, not redirect it. The matching viewtopic?t= is already indexed. If I added a redirect for the viewtopic?p= references, I wou...

IMHO, if some content in a forum is really good, and if you want to get it optimized it the most, then move it out of the forum, in a place you can add the keywords you want in URLs and where it won't risk to be buried into the forums pagination. From my viewpoint, there's two motivations for title...

Several members arrived here with a rather big forum, with PR over three on index, and almost no URL listed in Google, and after a month or so, ended with many thousands of URLs listed in Google's results, which is SEO step one. I've read similar accounts and never understood why. My problem was to...

I mean, this is exactly what is done on this forum, and if you look at it, 99% of topic URLs are statically rewritten. I wondered about that, i.e., why this forum doesn't use the advance rewrite mod. For example, this topic is: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-mod-rewrite/discussions-vt521.htm...

If it's only a matter of dealing with ', you could just replace them all with nothing instead of Hyphens like for now. True, but it's a language-specific issue; I wouldn't recommend that approach for English. Some contractions read well even without the apostrophe, others don't (e.g., "ill&quo...

Don't worry the zero dupe will take care of this kind of small problems; ) Indeed, it took months for the search engines to drop the "natural" duplicates that viewtopic?p= created (I neglected to add robots.txt entries for it, profile.php, memberlist.php, etc.). I'm happy to test the &quo...

I am testing the advanced rewrite mod and installed the mx Google Sitemap. Sorry, I didn't read through the prior pages to see if this was reported already, but I believe the sitemap_forum.php in contrib\moded_4_mod_rewrites\phpBB_SEO_mod_Rewrites\Advanced_Mod_Rewrite neglected to do censored word r...

I've read and re-read the description of the phpBB SEO Mod Rewrites . The advance mod's title injection is neat, but as dcz noted, poorly chosen titles could blunt the benefit. Sure, as moderator, you could drop the member a friendly note and change the title to something more meaningful, but anothe...

It's been about six months that I'm working on my site's SEO, sifting through articles and hints about what is worth doing and what isn't. Team phpBB SEO, it's great to see a forum dedicated to the topic! One reason I've resisted going through the trouble of URL rewriting is because I've read varyin...

I understand the main motivation for the phpBB MOD rewrites is more search engine friendly URLs, but what intrigues me is the advanced MOD's more people friendly URLs. Last night while I was waiting for the little ones to settle down, I installed the MOD on a local installation. EasyMOD tripped over...