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Originally Posted by joeychgo
Adding the Keywords to the URLS is a good thing, but beyond that, its SEO impact is minimal in my opinion. IMO the biggest problem with a forum like this using a mod-rewrite is that 'newbies' will think thats the easy way to go and that its necessary.
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I don't even think it's the keywords in URL's. Keywords in URL help quite a bit in Yahoo, but for Google I think it just helps to have URL's that appear static. It's kind of stupid, but when we were on Internet-Marketing-Research.net using phpBB, the URL's were re-written to stuff like this:
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internet-marketing-research.net/forums/ftopic7991.html
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No keywords, just static, and it helped more than I could have ever guessed.
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Originally Posted by joeychgo
I see vbulletin sites rank very high all the time. I see vBulletin sites which have tons of indexed pages, none of which have vBSEO or any mod rewrite. Its my belief that most of the cause of poor ranking forums is lack of incoming links.
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Or poor quality incoming links. I think that poor link building can hurt a site more than lack of links. I have no definitive proof of that, but it's something I suspect based on a lot of observation.