forum software

[piet]

we have the forum online.

iTalkWebs - Webmaster Forum

i love the admin panel.

[Raymond]

I think you made the right choice with vBulletin. phpBB and SMF are decent free alternatives, but if you're serious about your forum - vB is the way to go!

In terms of security, modifications, support and just down right style, I think it blows the others away.

[ultimate handyman]

Vbulletin is good, but I still like phpbb as it is free and there are thousands of free modifications for it. My forum uses phpbb and at one point I thought about switching to vbulletin as it generates search engine friendly url's but then I found a modification that generates seo friendly url's in phpbb.

[gkd_uk]

Originally Posted by ultimate handyman

Vbulletin is good, but I still like phpbb as it is free and there are thousands of free modifications for it. My forum uses phpbb and at one point I thought about switching to vbulletin as it generates search engine friendly url's but then I found a modification that generates seo friendly url's in phpbb.

What mod do you use that generate seo friendly urls in phpbb?

Thanks

[ultimate handyman]

Originally Posted by gkd_uk

What mod do you use that generate seo friendly urls in phpbb?

Thanks

I have had a few installed from here- ( I would tell you but the forum software won't let me until I have 10 posts) :doh2:

Their mods have helped my site quite a lot, particularly my forum.

The most users ever online on my forum was 240ish and after having these mods installed it is 743.

There are quite a few good mods on there and the members are really helpful.

At first I had 11,000 url's in google but many of these were duplicates and contained session id's. After the mods were installed I have about 4,000 pages in google, but no duplicates.

I'd much rather have 4,000 well indexed pages then 100,000 poorly indexed pages.

You'll have to wait till I get 10 posts before I can show you the mods

[ultimate handyman]

I have 10 post now!

I got the mods for the search engine friendly url's from here- SEO Forums : Google Yahoo MSN

They have some really good mods and there are some very clever people on there who specialise in SEO and .htaccess etc.

[gkd_uk]

Thanks - rep added

[thequester]

Have to agree about phpBB. I've been using it on one forum for nearly five years now.

[temi]

what sort of forum do you run thequester ?

[thequester]

It started out as a forum about getting free samples but has grown into a more general forum.