What is IPBSEO?

IPBSEO is a search engine optimization module for Invision power board 2.2.x - 2.3.x. It's aim is to turn every page with content on your forum discoverable to important keywords that users and search engines may be looking for. In this day and age each page is competing with millions of other for the similar content. And IPBSEO is here to just make the search engines more aware of your content than any other websites. We just help you do the 30% of SEO, the rest is up to your quality of content.

Why is it free?

What it's free?! this IPB seo module is free because everything in the package can be done by anyone with a decent amount of knowledge. Also I really like to help people and to know that I made a difference on the internet. That's something to live up to everyday of your life.

If you really would like to thank me in anyway you could buy me something from my wishlist on amazon.

Key Features of IPBSEO

• Keyword rich URLs [Improved]
• Automatic META data for each page of the forum [Improved]
• Cached data for less server load.
• Unique urls for topics and forums [Works without FURL!]
• Handling broken links [Improved]
• Editable Robots.txt to allow and disallow access to certain bots
• Sitemaps for both humans and bots [New! improved for regular users] [Improved]
• Pingable sitemaps to Google, Yahoo, MSN & Ask
• Similar Topics [Coming soon]
• Acronym generator [NEW!]
• Tagging system
• Custom Error 404 pages
• Additional Description to increase page description content
• Character replacement for foreign language
• Low server load [Good for Big Boards]

To add request more features to be added please contact us.

Detailed Features

For the current version

• Ability to automatically generate a nice robots.txt file to tell the search engines where to crawl
  • Also editable via Admincp
• Generate the relevant Meta data for threads and forums
• Restrict bots to crawl only: index, portal, modules, components, threads and forums
• Unique meta for each topic and post to reduce supplemental results
• Unique dynamic urls; meaning the index.php?showtopic= will be unique regardless of any query strings added on.
• includes: thread, forum, homepage and portal url
• Unique clean Friendly URL. [Only modification with this capability]
• Tag system
• allows your users to contribute
• improves meta keyword by adding the same and exact keywords to the topic meta data.
• helps users browse similar tags
• block bad words
• Sitemap generator valid to sitemaps.org's protocol
• Pingable to:
  • Ask.com
  • Google
  • MSN
  • Yahoo!
• You can choose which Search engine to ping
• Quick and easy installation
  • Currently only 8 pages to edit
• Low server load: Tested and used on a site with more than 1000+ users simulataneously logged in. Much lower server load than CommunitySEO.
• Additional description
  • Enables you to display additional description and heading to post to increase post relevance
• Character replacement for most foreign language
  • currently includes:
    • French
    • German
    • Russian (thanks SH86)
    • Arabic (phonetic translit)
  • You can even add your own translit
• Customise your meta title and description for all topics!
  • this new unique feature allows you to customise on the fly your page meta title and description!
• Anonymise URL on certain forums
  • Do you have certain forums where you link to pages where you do not want them to capture referer? well now you can, you can even link it off to external anonymiser so that they have no clue where the link came from
  • what more those links cannot be followed by bots properly so you keep those page rank farmers unhappy.

It's all white hat SEO baby!

We do not include stats padding or any other none ethical approach at search engine optimisation. We only help search engine to search your pages better to give you a chance of getting your top content on search queries. Cloacking is still being discussed if it is ethical or not, but in the mean while we will try to add it in as an option.

Demonstration & Screencast

The main demo board is our live icelabz forum.
Here are some screencast:

• Tag system screencast: http://www.icelabz.net/ifz-screens/mseotag/
• Upgrade seo_settings.php to new ipbseo 0.4.0 format
• How to use anonymise url

Furl Setting builder

It has come to my attention that not a lot of you can customise the FURL easily so I have made this seo_settings.php builder. At the moment it is still being tested for bugs but seems workable. Basically you format the url you want from the tag insertion link below the fields and click submit. A thorough documentation will be posted soon.

Download

To download please fill this form and hit submit and you should get a confirmation email with a link to the download. Please be reminded once you submit this form you will be entered to our mailing list. Please read our license before downloading and using.

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We are not going to use the data provided for spam or third party advertisement. We only using this to get a clearer picture of who is downloading the software so that we can tailor MSEO to suit everybody. We are also going to send notification of updates and surveys to you to help use improve, that is if you are ok with this. Just read our privacy statement for more details

Download optimised Search engine skin

If you would like to use a special skin dedicated to search engines please right click and save to download this botskin from MinervaSEO.
A small description about this skin is found on our forums

Support

Need help, got a query, found a bug? Drop us an email on support@minervaseo.com
Our Support and community forum is now live!

User Manual

Here is the manual[pdf] for IPBSEO

Blog

Our blog can be found here. We talk about IPB, vbulletin, phpbb, wordpress and general php tricks, tips and optimisation. And of course Minerva SEO.