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In this topic, we provide a list of some of the techniques you need to do with search engine optimization, or SEO for short, on your phpBB forum. This is a dynamic list of phpBB SEO topics that have been or will be covered on this board. The check icon in circle indicates that it is a clickable link and goes to the relevant topic.
Install SSL
SSL is a must. Nowadays, you can easily install SSL for free on many hosts. Lack of SSL causes the foundation of almost all SEO efforts to be broken and causes users to worry.Make SSL Redirect
It is harmful in many ways to be indexed in both ways and for users to access it through different links.Make www Redirect
Are you using your domain name with www or without www? That's the whole point.Edit Site Name and Description
It is necessary for SEO to pay attention when writing the site name and more importantly the site descriptionAdd Tagline
Create a tagline that describes your phpBB board in a few words.Add SEO Metadata
Create metadata to enable search engines, social media posts, shares and users to better understand the content.Create phpBB Sitemap
You should create a sitemap to guide search engines and help them find content more easily.Create Robots.txt File
Create a robots.txt file to highlight the sitemap and in some cases to control bots.Submit your website to Google
Register your phpBB forum with Google, submit the sitemap and have the content indexed and ranked. Check out the analytics to see how far you've come over time.Create Quality Content
So far, we have been talking about technical SEO. However, there is one thing that is more important than all of them, and that is creating good and quality content. This is so important that everything we have done so far has been about bringing good writing to the forefront. Real success comes from working not just for Google, but to make sure that real people enjoy your forum.This phpBB SEO list will be updated over time and new titles will be added if necessary.