dcz, thanks for your reply and your work on the mods. i had read the thread you posted and didn't understand why poor titles badly optimize in mod advanced. "ha ha this is funny!" makes a poor title and hence doesn't optimize for any keywords but neither does "viewtopic.php?t=xx => to...

i'm trying to decide between mixed and advanced mod rewrite. if i am not mistaken, this board uses mixed: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-mod-rewrite/discussions-vt1190.html phpbb-mod-rewrite is the subforum title. all discussions in that forum are mapped to -vtXXX.html wouldn't letting user t...