[HTCF]MyBB Forum SEO Tips

[Peter L]

As seen in How to Create a Forum by Laugh.

Basically search engine optimization(seo) is how you get on the
top of Google searches. If you type “xbox modding” wouldn’t you like
to be at the top? Of course. So this section is a plus. First step, go to
google.com/addurl and submit your url to the database. This is a good
first step and I enjoy using it. Include relevant tags to whatever your
board is about.

Here are some MyBB Plugins and Mods to make your Forum as SEO
friendly as it can be:
Meta Tags Plugin - http://www.mybbcentral.com/thread-1657.html
Google SEO Plugin - http://community.mybb.com/thread-46423.html
And now for the kicker. Go to your ACP and navigate here:

Code:

Templates & Style » Templates » Theme Name » Forum Bit
Templates » forumbit_depth2_forum

Find:

Code:

<div><strong><a href=”{$forum_url]”>{$forum[‘name’]}</a>

and replace it with:

Code:

<div><strong><a href="{$forum_url}"
title="{$forum['name']}">{$forum['name']}</a>

Why? When you hover over a forum name, by default on MyBB,
nothing comes up as there are no title tags. But if you do what I said
above, each forum category will be indexed by
google better.

Thanks for reading and I'll be posting more!

[Amazing]

Great tutorial, but it seems like my template bit doesn't have that.

This is what mine looks like:

Code:

<tr>
<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" width="1"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$lightbulb['folder']}.gif" alt="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" class="ajax_mark_read" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}" /></td>
<td class="{$bgcolor}">
<strong><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a></strong>&nbsp;<a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/syndication.php?fid={$forum['fid']}&limit=15"><img src="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/rss.png" alt="RSS" /></a>{$forum_viewers_text}<div class="smalltext">{$forum['description']}{$modlist}{$subforums}</div>
</td>
<td class="{$bgcolor} smalltext" align="right" style="white-space: nowrap">{$posts}{$unapproved['unapproved_posts']} {$lang->forumbit_posts}<br />{$threads}{$unapproved['unapproved_threads']} {$lang->forumbit_threads}</td>
<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="left" style="white-space: nowrap">{$lastpost}</td>
</tr>

Disregard what I just said, I found it, it just wasn't the exact same as the one you posted.

Thanks for the tutorial!

[Peter L]

Are you sure you're in the right spot? Post a screenshot.

[Deltron]

Another great share. Thanks man!

[Peter L]

Bumping this up!