Magic SEO URLs for phpBB 3.0

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

Inveo Magic SEO URLs for phpBB changes dynamic URLs to static and well-structured SEO friendly formats, which can help improve Search Engine rankings (PageRank) and readability. They also include verification and validation of each SEO URL, support safe changing of SEO URLs and redirection from all native and rewritten phpBB URLs, 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 worldwide webcrawlers is detected. Also, 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

• Maximize your site's PageRank!
• Bring your site up on SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages)!
• Help you succeed in your SEO strategy!
• Do not break phpBB MODs or EasyMOD compatibility!
• Feature easy installation requiring only one line of code
• In comparison with other phpBB SEO MODs is The Best ever made!
• Come with an optional installation service

Features - phpBB SEO

• Change dynamic URLs to static SEO friendly URLs
• Generate well-structured SEO URLs in relation to content
• Verify and validate each SEO URL

  If the user/visitor make any mistake in the SEO URL, it 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/

• Support safe changes of SEO URLs

  If any page receives new SEO URL due to change in the content, all older SEO URLs will still work and the web browser or crawler is 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/

• Support 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!

• Prevent 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/

• Prevent 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)

• Make all relative URLs absolute

  Search Engines will spider your forum more easier.

• 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. Also, if the webcrawler finds a backward link containing Session ID or with Highlights, it is redirected to the non-Session ID/non-Highlights version of the SEO URL.

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

  Others are omitted in URIs.

• Limit the minimum word's length

  Shorter words are excluded from URIs.

• Support 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

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

• support brand new PHP 5.3
• separated optimized versions

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

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

  You add only one line of code 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).
  Alternatively 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 or 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 3.0
• Licences for using on 1 live and on 2 development sites (both amounts can be increased in special cases - such as separate HTTPS site - upon request free of 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).