[Xterra]

Hello, i was wondering if IPB 3 has SEO optimization built in, add on only, or non-existent.

Thanks!

[MGBrose]

Xterra, on 04 July 2009 - 03:23 PM, said:

Hello, i was wondering if IPB 3 has SEO optimization built in, add on only, or non-existent.

Thanks!

Pretty much IPB 3 has friendly url's that you can edit the format. There are add-ons for SEO such as CommunitySeo that isn't made by Invision Power but it isn't free.

[EagleHawk]

In the latest version of I.P. Board (3.00) which was just released there are now friendly URL's which should increase search engine ranking and optimization. As for other SEO features I am not sure, but I am certain that someone else will answer that.

[dr. Jekyll]

Xterra, on 04 July 2009 - 09:23 PM, said:

Hello, i was wondering if IPB 3 has SEO optimization built in, add on only, or non-existent.

Thanks!

Depend for what you mean seo optimization

IPB 3.0 has a modrewrite included and this is quite good because is less resource hungry of the add on mod used in others board

Unfortunately IPB 3.0 has not a sitemap generator. Minervaseo has just release a beta googlesitemap generator as shareware. Micheal from codersrefuge.com probably will release a mod to choice the keywords per forum/subforum basis. This two mod are quite useful for a seo point of view.

Usefully could also be a tagscloud mod but to day date none has release such mod as single mod. In any case is not sure that a tagclouds mod could be so useful for a seo forum.

[Collin1000]

Xterra, on 04 July 2009 - 12:23 PM, said:

Hello, i was wondering if IPB 3 has SEO optimization built in, add on only, or non-existent.

Thanks!

Built in SEO friendly url's and built in SEO friendly forum skin for easy crawling.

[Andrew.S.]

There is a built in FURL but you might find this worth reading
http://forums.invisi...1&#entry1818842
http://forums.invisi...1&#entry1818809

[Mark]

IP.Board 3.0 has a few "SEO" features, including:

• Friendly URLs
  
• User Agent Management for spiders
  
• Semantically correct HTML
  
• Microformat Support
  
• rel='nofollow' support

You can read more about these features in the following blog entries:
http://forums.invisi...y-urls-at-last/
http://forums.invisi...e-optimization/
http://forums.invisi...-output-engine/

[Jυra]

There are also SEO bundles from people who create modifications. CommunitySEO and Minerva SEO.

[alex.rodrick]

can we customize the friendly url link ?

[BacTalan]

alex.rodrick, on 05 July 2009 - 10:25 PM, said:

can we customize the friendly url link ?

Yes, it requires you to edit a file but it's fairly straightforward if you have a decent knowledge of PHP. Even if you don't, it should be fairly easy to get help from the community.

[Axel Wers]

Μark, on 05 July 2009 - 11:32 AM, said:

rel='nofollow' support

nofollow is valid for ALL links or only for external links?

[Mark]

Axel Wers, on 06 July 2009 - 06:00 AM, said:

nofollow is valid for ALL links or only for external links?

It's added to links that users post. There is a setting to turn it off.

[Axel Wers]

Yes, but I thought if only external links are affected by nofollow tag or internal links as well?

[Patrick Shaw]

Michael helped me hack the core files so that only external links are nofollowed...

Go to: \admin\sources\classes\bbcode\custom\defaults.php and find...

                if( count($rels) )
                {
                        $rel = " rel='" . implode( ' ', $rels ) . "'";
                }

Directly above it, add:

                if ( in_array( "nofollow", $rels ) && strpos( $option, 'example.com' ) !== false )
                {
                        unset( $rels[0] );
                }

... obviously substituting 'example.com' for your own domain. NOTE: This might not work if your forum is on a subdomain, I can't remember the fix for that, sorry.

[Axel Wers]

Then

 if ( in_array( "nofollow", $rels ) && strpos( $option, 'forums.example.com' ) !== false )                {                        unset( $rels[0] );                }

should work, no?

[Collin1000]

Patrick Shaw, thanks for posting that! +rep!

[DiecastX]

I would kill for a mod that would allow selective use of the "nofollow" and "noindex" tags internally and externally, similar to the RobotsMeta plugin for WordPress. It allows for extremely focused flow of link juice.

[Oplosium]

Also it would be nice to have the ability to set meta description for each forums as Google suggests that I could improve the meta descriptions for the forums, saying that it is too short. Right now I don't have the knowledge to do this myself.

I know that some modifications are available for this kind of improvements but I haven't tried them as I really don't know how they work, thinking maybe they have too many features and perhaps taking too much control with some repercussions along the way if one is not careful enough, I really don't know.

Invision has done great seo related improvements with IPB3 but I would like to see much further improvements as long as Invision has the time and resources for the continuing seo optimization work.

One other thing I really liked this summer was the robots file included in the new release as I think it is important to give some directions to the friendly robots, telling them that some pages are of no importance. This makes the indexing much cleaner, decreasing "useless" indexed pages and "duplicate" entries and perhaps taking some load off the server in some cases.

But the included robots file is just basic and much more could be added to it, but some of it is perhaps just a personal choice.