Paying 5$ to just poinitng out mistakes in my forum

[goodselleronline]

I have installed couple of mods in my forum
just started it .i know i haven't done it correctly [ or even if i did it correctly am not happy with it ]

After installing and activating the seo mod
my forum url looks something like this [ I don't want to give out name here in open ]

http://www.myexample.com ( which is correct )

and all the categories/sub-forum looks great too with url's like

http://www.myexample.com/introduction.html

http://www.myexample.com/white-hat-seo.html

and so on ..but when i come to the titles ..
it looks like this

http://www.myexample.com/get-hundreds-o ... ce-t9.html

Notice the title t9 part . its present in every thread , how do i get rid of it ?

ssme goes with the posts

I want someone who's an expert in this field to look into my forum ( seo perspective )
just tell me the things i should change .
this is for just suggestion ( your time )

No Work Involved .

i will have no problem going first ( if you deem trustworthy to me )

[Erik Frèrejean]

Notice the title t9 part . its present in every thread , how do i get rid of it ?

You can't, because without unique identifier how are you going to handle topic title changes? Duplicate topic titles? etc.

[goodselleronline]

Notice the title t9 part . its present in every thread , how do i get rid of it ?

You can't, because without unique identifier how are you going to handle topic title changes? Duplicate topic titles? etc.

so theres no solution to this

[Erik Frèrejean]

For everything is a solution . But you'll have to start with preventing users from editing topic titles. Than you have the problem that a text lookup will become slow if you got more topics. You'll need to account for duplicate topic titles. Etc, etc, etc.
All in all its not worth the hassle (and I'm certain you'll find nobody to do that for $5), also phpBB itself doesn't need fancy URLs to begin with. SE's have no problems indexing it correctly.

[goodselleronline]

For everything is a solution . But you'll have to start with preventing users from editing topic titles. Than you have the problem that a text lookup will become slow if you got more topics. You'll need to account for duplicate topic titles. Etc, etc, etc.
All in all its not worth the hassle (and I'm certain you'll find nobody to do that for $5), also phpBB itself doesn't need fancy URLs to begin with. SE's have no problems indexing it correctly.

well none of the users have permission to edit the title

its just that when they are posting that extra T and P gest attached to the url .
will anybody would do this for like 20 bucks ?
i just dont know my problem and also the solution to it lol

[Coyote]

For everything is a solution . But you'll have to start with preventing users from editing topic titles. Than you have the problem that a text lookup will become slow if you got more topics. You'll need to account for duplicate topic titles. Etc, etc, etc.
All in all its not worth the hassle (and I'm certain you'll find nobody to do that for $5), also phpBB itself doesn't need fancy URLs to begin with. SE's have no problems indexing it correctly.

well none of the users have permission to edit the title

its just that when they are posting that extra T and P gest attached to the url .
will anybody would do this for like 20 bucks ?
i just dont know my problem and also the solution to it lol

What Erik is saying is that there [s]is[/s] may be a way, but you'd have to disable editing posts by anyone. If a member creates a topic, then edits that first post, they can from there change the topic title. Also, the extra 't' in the topic title doesn't hurt SERP's (Search Engine Result Placement). You cannot get rid of the 'p' in the URL without disabling the feature that allows you to click on the last post and be taken right to that post.

You'd be adding extra SQL queries that slow your forum down every time anyone visits your forum. Additionally, removing the topic id's leaves you somewhat vulnerable to having duplicate pages on your forum, which *will* affect SERP's. So you have to add more code and more SQL queries to overcome that problem, and so on. All to get rid of the unique identifier that is what allows phpBB to be so efficient in the first place.

I can't imagine you would find anyone who would even touch this for less than $100, upfront. What you're asking for is somewhat difficult, and you probably won't like the result. You don't really have a problem, and the solution will just make your server work harder and your forum 10x more difficult to upgrade or modify in the future.

For my money (free), phpBB SEO is the best Search Engine Optimization mod available, and does everything you want it to do (except remove that pesky 't' from the URL's).

Edit: I was wrong, apparently there isn't a way.

[Obsidian]

this is something that cannot be worked around - even stackoverflow has to live with it.

see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6233 ... yment-tips

Note the integer after the questions bit - even they do it too.

[goodselleronline]

ok thanks for the reply guys i will live with it ( since it doesnt harm my ranking position )

[Obsidian]

ok thanks for the reply guys i will live with it ( since it doesnt harm my ranking position )

just remember, when considering search engine rankings - the key is not in pretty URLs or in fancy redirection crud.
It's all about content. Content. Is. King.

Unique desirable content (which takes work to produce, yes) is what will net you good rankings. Trying to shortcut the process leads to the search engines actually punishing you in the long run (reference the practices of "keyword stuffing" and "backlink farming" if you're curious).

[goodselleronline]

Yep True.. Content is King but having a beautiful url doesn't harm either :p

keyword stuffing reminds me of the days when i used xsite pro