Magic SEO URL for phpBB3
Comparison with Advanced phpBB3 SEO mod Rewrite
| Magic SEO URL for phpBB3 |
Advanced mod Rewrite 0.4.0 | |
| Static URLs | Yes | Yes |
| Key-word URLs | Yes | Yes |
| Well-structured URLs | Yes | Depend on settings |
| Supported types of URLs | categories, forums, topics, posts, faqs, profiles, private messages, memberlist, search and more | categories, forums, topics, posts, profiles |
| No same content available on the different URLs (prevents possible duplicate content penalties) |
Yes | No (e.g. over 15 different URLs per thread - high penalization by crawlers) |
| Verifies and validates each URL (prevents possible duplicate content penalties and HTTP 404/Not Found error when visitor makes any typo in URL) |
Yes | Partially (only few) |
| Safe changes of URLs If any page receives new URL due to change in the content, than all older URLs will still working and the web browser or crawler is redirected through HTTP 301/Moved Permanently to the new URL. |
Yes | Yes |
| Redirections from ALL original phpBB3 URLs (prevents possible duplicate content penalties) |
Yes | Partially |
| Previous/Next thread links Workaround (prevents possible duplicate content penalties) |
Yes | No |
| Newest posts links Workaround (prevents possible duplicate content penalties) |
Yes | No |
| Permalinks to posts (useful when the number of "Posts Per Page" is changed in phpBB3 configuration) |
Yes | No |
| Prevents home page duplicate content penalties | Yes | No |
| Makes all relative URLs absolute (Search Engines will spider your forum more easier) |
Yes | No |
| Supports nice parameters and values in URLs (to maximize visitor experience all non-intuitive parameters and values in URLs are replaced to human friendly equivalents) |
Yes | No |
| Sesions IDs removing (prevents possible duplicate content penalties) |
Yes (when spider detected) |
Yes |
| Properly Sessions IDs handling | Yes | Yes |
| Does not add any SQL queries | Yes | Unknow |
| Uses cache for keyword URLs (save database server resources) |
Yes | No |
| Possibility to set Maximum number of words in one URI's level | Yes | No |
| Possibility to set Minimum word's length (shorter words are excluded from URIs) |
Yes | No |
| Does not break phpBB3 MODs | Yes | No |
| No modifications to phpBB3 or template files required | Yes | No |
As you can see from this table, Magic SEO URL for phpBB3 is not another attempt for real phpBB3 Seach Engine Optimization - it is full featured solution, which increases your monthly revenues earned from your forums. Your pages will be indexed faster and more often and receive highest pagerank due to no duplicate content penalties. Also, you will get more of your forum pages indexed in the major Search Engines and visitors who are more highly targeted to the content you provide - your keyword relevancy for all pages will be improved.
If you have any further questions or comments to this comparison table, feel free to contact us at info@magic-seo-url.com. All suggestions are welcome, thank you.