26 Reply by dot

(29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

In order to have good search engine rankings, it is absolutely necessary to have static URLs. The dynamic URLs don't cut it. That is one of the things I have been looking into doing, but I don't have the expertise at it that is really neededl. From my research, it looks like the ForceType directive is the way to go. There is info at:
http://www.websitepublisher.net/article … dly_urls/3

If someone wanted to do a tutorial on how to do this, that could be understood by someone inexperienced at Apache and server management such as myself, that would be great. It's a bit over my head, though I'll give it a try if I have to when 1.2 is released. But any forum I use absolutely must be able to rank well on search engines. Which means the static URLs are an absolute must.

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27 Reply by dot

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Well, if it's microsoft, then we can expect to wait another 14 months, pay $399 for the upgraded version, and then after that have it attacked by trojans and viruses.

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28 Reply by dot

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

1. Being able to have static URLs such as http://mydomain.com/1.html are absolutely vital for good rankings in the search engines. I am not an expert on coding, but I do know what I'm talking about  when it comes to good search engine rankings.

It would be really helpful to some of us if a tutorial could be posted on how to use mod_rewrite, or whatever, so punbb will display static URLs. If that can be accomplished, I'll use punbb for sure.

2. Is is possible to have the subject of a post be only the title. For instance, this thread's title is:

PunBB.org Forums / aesthetic URL's

I would like it to be just:

aesthetic URL's

Again, this is important for getting pages to rank properly and highly on search engines

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