how do you make invision boards SE friendly?

[tomcromp]

how do you make invision boards SE friendly?
anyone got a hack for it ? cant fid one on ibplanet

Cheers
Tom

[seokid]

Is it invision power board? They should come search engine friendly...

[gurujh]

[QUOTE=tomcromp]how do you make invision boards SE friendly?
anyone got a hack for it ? cant fid one on ibplanet

Cheers
Tom[/QUOTE]

Hey Tom,

I have hosted a view sites using Invision boards, and its seemed to be
search engine friendly right out of the box. But then again, I have
ModreWrite scripts on my servers.

What is your server hosted on? Linux of Windows? If its Linux, then
you should have modrewrite built in to you system automatically,
and can have it change what the Invision board parses with a more
search engine friendly code. Im not exactly sure what symbols the
search engines dont like, but I would bet its anything that looks
something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/thread?=lalalala#2%gotit

Im sure someone here knows the symbols that the search engines
just wont parse. If your on a Windows box, you can still do
modrewrite, but you will have to get a program to do it, it wont
be free.

Hope that helps.

[Pyrrhonist]

Even if you're running a Winwoes server, you can still have mod_rewrite installed. mod_rewrite is an Apache module, so if you run Apache for Winwoes, that's fine too. If you're running IIS however, then you want to look into ASAPI_rewrite. ASAPI_rewrite is a SSI product for IIS that basically emulates mod_rewrite. I was looking into it the other day, and the RewriteRules seem to be identical to the mod_rewrite ones. So either way, it shouldn't be too hard to solve your problem. For an example on how to do mod_rewrite to a forum, check out my thread in the development forums about how to mod phpBB.

[gurujh]

And just in case your webserver IS Windows, here are the top three rewrites, including what SEO Bob had mentioned.

http://www.isapirewrite.com/
http://www.iismods.com/
http://www.qwerksoft.com/

Go to www.isapirewrite.com first. They have a free version that is not disabled that you can try and see if it works on your system. Hope that helps you out :) .

[Pyrrhonist]

Thanks for the details Guruth. I didn't have an opportunity to research them myself.