It’s old news that Google and other major search engines have added support for the <link rel=”canonical”> tag to help cut down on duplicate indexing of web pages. While plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and Magneto E-Commerce have been released, there has been none such modification for phpBB, where it is, arguably, most needed.
phpBB administrators have [...]
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Add canonical links to phpBB
Prevent duplicate indexing while moving threads in phpBB
Moving a thread from one forum to another cause duplicate indexing issues in phpBB3. In such cases, both the old URL and the new URL return a “200 Found” header response, even though the thread doesn’t exist in the old forum. Ideally, the old URL should 301 redirect to the new URL. In this post [...]
WWW or no-WWW?
Webmasters often face this dilemma – to include www in front of their domain or to exclude it. This is an oft-argued about topic in many webmasters’ discussion forums. However, there are some advantages and disadvantages on both sides.
Advantages :
Not using WWW :
WWW is actually a subdomain. Would you like users to access your site [...]
Prevent duplicate indexing of phpBB3 threads by Google
In a default phpBB3 installation(without an SEO mod), the same thread can be accessed through many URLs. For example, the thread Favourite Animorphs fanfiction can be accessed through these different URLs :
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=659
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60&p=659
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60&p=659#p659
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=60
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=659
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60&st=0&sk=t&sd=a#p659
The agressive Googlebot might pick almost all of those links and it might lead to potential ranking problems in SERPs.
One way to resove this [...]
