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As we all know SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is very important for search engines like Google and Bing, Search Engine Optimization helps search engines better index and include your site’s content in their SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
MyBB is a great forum script however it is not entirely SEO friendly so we as webmasters have to do something about it because what is the point of heaving a forum site when it's not getting organic traffic from search engine right?
META TAGS
Meta tags and title are crucial to search engine because they allow search engine to determine what your site is about unfortunately MYBB doesn't have any meta tags only the title so we need to add our own meta tags code, but don't get scared we only need to add meta tags to the home or index page, so to do that go to:
ACP>>Templates & Style>>Templates>>Your Template>>Index Page Templates>>Index
Inside Index template find {$headerinclude} and add you meta tags just after it!
Or you can use this Meta Tags Generator tool.
So this concludes the first part in the second part we will talk about how to create sitemap.xml, search engine friendly link and meta tags for all the pages except the home page because we have already done it!
GOOGLE SEO PLUGIN
Now we need to do some serious stuff this requires us to install a plugin that will create sitemap.xml I mean it will add all the threads, replies and misc.php URLs to sitemap.xml automatically also it will create search engine friendly URL, instead of default MyBB URL:
the URL will be the same as thread's title!
How to install Google SEO plugin?
1. You need to install PluginLibrary plugin you can download it here:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/pluginlibrary
2. Now that you have PluginLibrary installed we need actually to install Google SEO plugin you can download it here:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/google-seo
3. Once installed copy the code that shows under the Google SEO plugin in your ACP>>Plugins paste it into notepad save it as
.htaccess then upload it to your MyBB main directory!
The code will look similar to this one!
4. Now under the Google SEO plugin in you ACP>>Plugins click on "Click to Apply changes to core files" that is it now you have it all set-up.
If you have any question regarding MYBB SEO don't hesitate to post!
As we all know SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is very important for search engines like Google and Bing, Search Engine Optimization helps search engines better index and include your site’s content in their SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
MyBB is a great forum script however it is not entirely SEO friendly so we as webmasters have to do something about it because what is the point of heaving a forum site when it's not getting organic traffic from search engine right?
META TAGS
Meta tags and title are crucial to search engine because they allow search engine to determine what your site is about unfortunately MYBB doesn't have any meta tags only the title so we need to add our own meta tags code, but don't get scared we only need to add meta tags to the home or index page, so to do that go to:
ACP>>Templates & Style>>Templates>>Your Template>>Index Page Templates>>Index
Inside Index template find {$headerinclude} and add you meta tags just after it!
Code:
<meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION" />
<meta name="keywords" content="YOUR KEYWORDS" />Or you can use this Meta Tags Generator tool.
So this concludes the first part in the second part we will talk about how to create sitemap.xml, search engine friendly link and meta tags for all the pages except the home page because we have already done it!
GOOGLE SEO PLUGIN
Now we need to do some serious stuff this requires us to install a plugin that will create sitemap.xml I mean it will add all the threads, replies and misc.php URLs to sitemap.xml automatically also it will create search engine friendly URL, instead of default MyBB URL:
Code:
thread-1.htmlHow to install Google SEO plugin?
1. You need to install PluginLibrary plugin you can download it here:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/pluginlibrary
2. Now that you have PluginLibrary installed we need actually to install Google SEO plugin you can download it here:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/google-seo
3. Once installed copy the code that shows under the Google SEO plugin in your ACP>>Plugins paste it into notepad save it as
.htaccess then upload it to your MyBB main directory!
The code will look similar to this one!
Code:
RewriteEngine on
# Some hosts require RewriteBase to make RewriteRules work.
RewriteBase /
# Google SEO workaround for search.php highlights:
# Make this rule the first rewrite rule in your .htaccess!
RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$ http://localhost/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301]
# Google SEO Sitemap:
RewriteRule ^sitemap\-([^./]+)\.xml$ misc.php?google_seo_sitemap=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Forums:
RewriteRule ^Forum\-([^./]+)$ forumdisplay.php?google_seo_forum=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Threads:
RewriteRule ^Thread\-([^./]+)$ showthread.php?google_seo_thread=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Announcements:
RewriteRule ^Announcement\-([^./]+)$ announcements.php?google_seo_announcement=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Users:
RewriteRule ^User\-([^./]+)$ member.php?action=profile&google_seo_user=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Calendars:
RewriteRule ^Calendar\-([^./]+)$ calendar.php?google_seo_calendar=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
# Google SEO URL Events:
RewriteRule ^Event\-([^./]+)$ calendar.php?action=event&google_seo_event=$1 [L,QSA,NC]4. Now under the Google SEO plugin in you ACP>>Plugins click on "Click to Apply changes to core files" that is it now you have it all set-up.
If you have any question regarding MYBB SEO don't hesitate to post!
