Magic SEO URLs for phpBB 3.1

Inveo Magic SEO URLs are the definitive phpBB Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancement.

Inveo Magic SEO URLs for phpBB changes dynamic URLs to static, well-structured SEO friendly formats which helps improve Search Engine rankings (PageRank) and readability. They also include verification and validation of each SEO URL, support safe changes of SEO URLs and redirection from all native and rewritten phpBB URLs. They properly handle Sessions IDs*, operate at high speed without negative effects to server load or response time, prevent duplicate content penalties and much more!

* Sessions IDs (sid parameter in URLs) are removed when one of 120 world-wide webcrawlers is detected. If the webcrawler finds a backward link containing a Session ID, it is redirected to the non-Session ID version of the SEO URL.

Overview - phpBB SEO

• Maximizes your site's PageRank!
• Brings your site up on SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages)!
• Helps you succeed in your SEO strategy!
• Does not break phpBB MODs or EasyMOD compatibility!
• Features easy installation - requires only one line of code
• More efficient and user-friendly than other phpBB SEO MODs
• Comes with an optional installation service

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Features - phpBB SEO

• Changes dynamic URLs to static SEO friendly URLs
• Generates well-structured SEO URLs in relation to content
• Verifies and validates each SEO URL

  If the user/visitor make any mistake in the SEO URL, he is redirected to the correct URL - no HTTP 404/Not Found error or content penalty occur. E.g.:
  www.example.com/your-wrong category-name-1/ your-wrong-forum-name-1/your-wrong-topic-name-1/ to www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ your-forum-name-1/your-topic-name-1/

• Supports safe changes of SEO URLs

  If any page receives a new SEO URL due to changes in the content, all older SEO URLs will still work and the web browser or crawler will be redirected through HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to the new SEO URL. E.g.:
  www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ to www.example.com/your-new-category-name-1/

• Supports redirections from ALL original phpBB URLs

  E.g.: www.example.com/viewforum.php?f=1 to www.example.com/category-name-1/forum-name-1/

• Prevent possible duplicate content penalties - no duplicate content available on the different SEO URLs

  E.g.: www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1 and www.example.com/viewtopic.php?p=1#1 will be www.example.com/category-name-1/forum-name-1/topic-title-1/#1
  ...and more - Inveo Magic SEO URLs for phpBB fix many duplicate content penalties such as:
  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&postdays=7&post order=asc&highlight=highlightedtext&start=0
  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&postdays=7&post order=asc&start=0
  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&start=0&postdays=7&post order=asc&highlight=highlightedtext
  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&start=1
  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&view=newest
  and much more!

• Prevents possible duplicate content penalties of Previous/Next thread links

  www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&view=previous and www.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=1&view=next will be www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ your-forum-name-1/your-topic-name-1/?view=next and www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ your-forum-name-1/your-topic-name-1/?view=previous with redirections to real SEO URLs such as www.example.com/your-category-name-1/ your-forum-name-1/your-topic-name-2/

• Prevents home page content penalties

  www.example.com/?, www.example.com/index.php and www.example.com/index.php? will be www.example.com only!
  (also incorrect backward links are redirected to www.example.com)

• Makes all relative URLs absolute

  Search Engines will spider your forum more easily.

• Properly Sessions IDs handling and Highlights Removing

  Sessions IDs and Highlights (sid and highlight parameters in URLs) are removed when one of 120 worldwide webcrawlers is detected. If the webcrawler finds a backward link containing Session ID or Highlights, it is redirected to the non-Session ID/non-Highlights version of the SEO URL.

• Limit the maximum number of words in the URI's level

  Others are omitted in URIs.

• Limit the minimum word length

  Shorter words are excluded from URIs.

• Supports a number of character encodings

  cp-1250, cp-1251, cp-1252, cp-1254, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-2, iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-7, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-15 and utf-8

• Two level cache and RegEx optimizations allow for high speed operations without hurting server load or web server response times

  Does not add any SQL queries - in order to save database server resources, data for SEO friendly URLs are cached in the system memory during script execution and are also stored to special files for future reference.
  All Rewrite Rules are optimized for maximum speed.

• supports PHP 5.3
• separate optimized versions

  PHP 4.3 and higher, PHP 5.0/5.1, PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3. All in one package!

• Does not break phpBB MODs or EasyMOD compatibility
• No modifications to phpBB core or template files are required

  Only one line of code is needed for installation.

Requirements - phpBB SEO

• phpBB 2.0.xx or any other (including heavily modified) phpBB based board (BBtoNuke or any other ports of phpBB used in some CMS are not supported)
• Apache/lighttpd with mod_rewrite installed and .htaccess file handling enabled (or with ability to add Rewrite Rules to Apache/lighttpd configuration files);
  Or also Microsoft IIS with IIS Mod-Rewrite (recommended) or ISAPI Rewrite 3.x and higher installed.
• PHP 4.3 or 5 and later (Safe Mode is supported)
• Zend Optimizer 3.0 and later or Zend Guard Loader installed as PHP extension (free download)*

What do you get after purchasing this phpBB SEO?

• Inveo Magic SEO URLs for phpBB 2.x 3.1
• Licenses to use on one (1) live and two (2) development sites (amounts can be increased in special cases - such as a separate HTTPS site - upon request at no charge)
• Full documentation (including installation and update instructions)
• Free and very fast Technical support (2 years)
• Installation service (optional for a fee)
• Free product updates within purchased series

* Even if your web host doesn't have Zend Optimizer/Zend Guard Loader installed, we are able to install it on most web servers (administrator/root permissions are not necessary).