Thanks again for checking - the issue was that I missed one edit in viewforum.php - all's fixed now - thanks a lot!

Thanks for the quick reply dcz, I've triple checked the functions_display.php file - all changes have been made properly. And its not just the breadcrumbs alone (its working fine on the viewtopic page btw), on the viewforum page, the forum name just above the list of topics under the forum is not re...

Thanks for your patience! The earlier issue was that I completely missed viewforum.php - not sure how that happened! Now, most issues are fixed, except that in the breadcrumbs at the top, on the viewforum page, the forum link is not rewritten, but the category link is. Similarly, when you are on the...

Thanks for replying dcz, I'm sure I've made all the changes for the functions_display.php and viewtopic.php files. Its weird that only topic URLs are not being rewritten! The forum runs 3.0.2. Isn't the 0.4.2 version compatible with it?

Please look at my forum and kindly let me know if I've done the edits correctly. The topic titles are showing viewtopic ones as against the keyword rich ones. Did I set something wrong? Setting the virtual folder option does not change anything. The forum is running 3.0.2. I've installed the latest ...

dcz, on a related note, is it better SEO to keep the virtual folders or without? Personally, my opinion is that keeping the virtual folder adds an extra level to the hierarchy and google tends to give them less importance? So, although the folder adds some keywords to the URL, its a net negative eff...

But won't removing the topic ID and the forum ID create problems if we change the URLs by any chance? Also, if someone makes a post with the same topic, your forum could crash! Its best to keep one unique portion in the URL, in this case, the topic and forum IDs in my honest opinion, maybe dcz could...