Seo for smf

Smf or simple machine forums are really a much appreciable non profit company which allows users to built their own forums.I am starting to post somewhat the tactics which i have used on my forums to get traffic and increase the potential of your smf forum.We will also see the various mods and themes which are best for starting the adsense and ads integration in the site.

Some of the tips are

1)Use latest script version rather than carrying on the old one.

2)For themes selection you can try different themes rather than going just for the core or default one.

3)Use the vbulletin style meta tags plugin for better meta description there is also a trick in it we will discuss it in a new post.

4)Use similiar post plugin — this helps really much more

5)Don’t forget to add the sitemap plugin and get it included in google webmasters tool.

6)It is better to avoid the mobile version of your forum to be crawled by the google and other search engines you can do so by robots.txt file by putting these so that duplicate content can be avoided. It is being heard that in RC2 they have add carnonical tag support for yahoo/google/microsoft on topics/boards
aswell as wap2/imode.

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /index.php?action=search
Disallow: /index.php?action=calendar
Disallow: /index.php?action=login
Disallow: /index.php?action=register
Disallow: /index.php?action=profile
Disallow: /index.php?action=stats
Disallow: /index.php?action=activate
Disallow: /index.php?action=help
Disallow: /index.php?action=admin
Disallow: /index.php?action=pm
Disallow: /index.php?action=mlist
Disallow: /index.php?action=notify
Disallow: /index.php?action=post
Disallow: /index.php?action=markasread
Disallow: /index.php?action=sendtopic
Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage
Disallow: /index.php?action=dlattach
Disallow: /index.php?action=reminder
Disallow: /attachments/
Disallow: /avatars/
Disallow: /Packages/
Disallow: /sitemaps/
Disallow: /Smileys/
Disallow: /Sources/
Disallow: /Themes/

Disallow: /*sort=
Disallow: /*.msg
Disallow: *wap2*

7)Do some quality link exchange and also get some links from other forums that help in getting visitors as well as rankings.

8)Don’t allow users to post porn,illegal and bad things on your forum as it hurts your website badly.

9)Use smf’s sef feature for better urls but they can be more problematic due to php session id problems and others.