Search Engine Optimizations for vBulletin Forums

[mydownline]

Hi all

I just read this good article related to the steps of optimizing the vBulletin forum for better search engine rankings.

I found this tutorial about how to use mod_rewrite to allow your forum to have clean URLs, it goes so far as to give forum URLs names such as forum-name.html instead of forum-IDnumber.html.

If you have a VB forum and like to make it more search engines friendly, or if you don't have one but would like to learn something more, take a look at Search Engine Optimizations (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread9379.html)

[followme]

I heard for vBulletin 3, we should not or don't have to hack vBulletin for the search engine optimise. We should only work on the "Onpage" words, php mod_rewrite and template changes for optimization of the foum. Any idea of this?

[spider2005]

I have not done it yet using VB forum but the concept of mod_rewrite also applies for VB. Mod_rewrite is an Apache module tasked to rewrite URLs to make it search engine friendly especially for google. Note that google "hates" sites with URL containing (?id=3 partid=2), which appears in database driven websites. To a certain extent google can accept URL with a single parameter (?id=1) but more than that it excludes in its index.

In the case of mambo sites, you don't need a mod_rewrite. It has a built in facility to do this.