Hi,

I think IP.Board and the other addons like IP.Downloads, Gallery, Blog and Content should have a better SEO System like vBulletin as a plugin (vBSEO) where you can custom edit your URLs.

What you guys think?

Thanks

If you're that concerned about changing them, you can already. The existing structure is pretty good already though..

Ultimately, the point of good SEO features is to help you rank better in search engines - the features IPB3 includes by default help that, with some users even reporting better rankings when switching to IPB3 from vB+vBSEO :)

That said, our FURLs can be customized by editing a configuration file. We don't have a flashy interface for this simply because it's not something 99.9% of admins would ever do, because our defaults work well. But it is possible to do.

There are some 3rd party SEO addons for IPB that may already offer what you suggest. There's MinervaSEO and CommunitySEO, that I know of :)

Thanks for the fast replies, gonna have to checkout this FURL and the SEO Addons. :D

That said, our FURLs can be customized by editing a configuration file.

Hi Rikki,

where can I find this file? Thx!

Hi Rikki,

where can I find this file? Thx!

I believe each application has its own template file. For forums, it's in /admin/applications/ips/forums/extensions/furlTemplates.php.

A few notes though: first, you need to be sure of what you're doing. These files are an integral part of IP.Board and should not be edited unless you're certain you know what you're doing. Secondly, if you do edit them, I suspect there's a good chance you might damage any SEO ranking you've already earnt (or you may break links that search engines provide to users). Finally, this aspect of IP.Board is unsupported. Be careful :)

Note that after editing the files, you have to go to Manage Applications and Modules in the ACP, and click "Rebuild FURL Cache" as well.

Thank you guys!

i agree, the SEO links doesn't look good at all.

make a strong system like in vbseo. rather than having more social community features!

We're getting a lot of feedback from recent vB + vBSEO switchers that our default system out performs vB + VBSEO. These switchers are getting better ranking since they switched.

Is this the 'default' settings?
http://www.domain.com/forum/index.php?/topic/12166-thread-title/

I just want to check that is what I'm using on my board since I had my conversion done.
Thanks

Is this the 'default' settings?

http://www.domain.com/forum/index.php?/topic/12166-thread-title/

I just want to check that is what I'm using on my board since I had my conversion done.

Thanks

That is the URL structure that utilizes the Friendly URL scheme, but there is one additional thing you can do pretty easily to that if you wanted: removing the index.php part of the URL. There's a setting in the Admin CP that will let you do that, but it also requires a small edit to your site's .htaccess file. While in the Admin CP use the search box in the upper right and search for the term "mod_rewrite", you should find the setting "Use .htaccess mod_rewrite" that will let you control this.

Thanks for that! Got it working nice now :)