Which Is The Best myBB SEO Mod?
May 14th, 2009 by sSo I didn’t know much about myBB previously, but it looks impressive. It looks like it has a great community, and there’s a bunch of killer themes.
Most forums don’t come out of the box with good SEO, which is to be expected. Many people don’t care about it or don’t want to much around with mod_rewrite. There may be more SEO mods, but the two that I checked out are the Google SEO plugin and the MyBB SEO mod.
myBB Google SEO Mod
I checked out the mod’s demo forum, and I didn’t really like what I saw. The URLs look like this:
/Forum-Sandbox
/Thread-Im-trying-to-make-2-pages–1688
/User-admin
These are definitely better than the base URLs, but after seeing the mods out there, a little disappointing.
MyBB SEO Mod
Looking at the demo forum, these URLs look better:
/main-theme-f-1.html
/server-overloading-explained-t-2.html
(the user profile URLs look untouched, though)
So my conclusion was not bad, but I’d have to make some improvements.
Next Up, Checking Out phpBB
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June 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
AHHH! I was so getting into your testing, and then see you haven’t written about phpBB! Please hurry, this is interesting. I currently have a bbPress forum, for SEO, but it is too bare boned. I want all the “bells and whistles”…
June 8th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
As author of the Google SEO plugin I think I have to defend it just a little.
It does much more than just URLs (Meta description, XML Sitemaps, Redirection, etc), and it offers lots of options to customize how it does what it does.
It hasn’t been around for long (only half a year), so some shortage here or there (e.g. doesn’t offer the nifty directory structures like phpBB SEO does) is to be expected.
Development of this plugin is still going on, as it’s Open Source, and features are being added all the time (such as canonical).