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[Harro]

Forums have the reputation that they're not exactly search engine friendly.
It's the way they are build up, their linking structure and so on.

But which forum is the most SEO friendly, without any modifications (So extra archives, mods, mod_rewriting and so one)?

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[gastongr]

I can talk about phpbb and vbulletin, and in my opinion they are the same from the SEO side (without mods)

[solidghost]

Right out of the box, SMF with SE friendly URLs enabled.

[Harro]

There is however a lot of discussion about that on the SMF forums.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=127715.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=112100.0

But personally I never had problems with it

[ferrazf]

Has anyone had any good experiences using SEO in SMF with Joomla, using the Joomla-SMF bridge? I want to implement SEO on my forums, but right now it might be a bad idea, they don't work well together..

[Harro]

seo4smf has a version that shoulw work with joomla.
More information can be found here: http://www.webmasterstalks.com/joomla-b49.0/

[solidghost]

Yup, the SE friendly URL is only a bonus. The static looking URLs are good enough for basic SEO. Much better than those sessionid filled URLs of vB and phpBB.

[Pulkit]

I don't think SMF is too good with SEO ... Lotsa cralers have problems with it ...

[Harro]

Personally I never had problems with it.
But I did install a mod a little while ago.
But my other problems also doesn't have problems with it though.
10 000 pages indexed: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=site:harro.sin.khk.be&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[njoker555]

google didnt index any of my pages lol, but yahoo has like 8000+ and msn has 6000+ if i use that mod u told me about on another topic, wont those urls go away?

[Harro]

Normally not.
Old url's are redirected to the new ones.
But it's always a bit risky though.

[njoker555]

well if its redirected to new ones the search engines will get confused and maybe drop that page altogether

[Harro]

It uses a 301 redirect.
This means that it's a "permanent redirect", search engines will indeed drop the old url, but remember the new one.

[njoker555]

but it will still take a while to index that page again you know, it happened to me when i converted from yabb to smf, had about 5000 links on yahoo -- dropped to just 200 then a month late went up to 4000 -- now its 8000+

[solidghost]

I don't think SMF is too good with SEO ... Lotsa cralers have problems with it ...

Make sure you don't compress the output.
Some crawlers like MSNbot can't read it.

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