Google SEO
Search Engine Optimization as described in Google's SEO starter guide.
The development of this plugin started when Google released a document called "Google's Search Engine Optimization starter guide" in Nov 2008. After a long public beta phase the plugin finally reached stable status in March 2009.The goal of this plugin is to implement SEO in MyBB according to the guidelines presented in Google's SEO starter guide, to make MyBB more friendly to both users and search engines.
This plugin requires Apache with mod_rewrite, MySQL, PHP with mbstring, and MyBB 1.4 with UTF-8 encoding. MySQL 5, PHP 5 is highly recommended. Unfortunately, one core file has to be modified to make SEO URLs work.
This plugin is free open source software (GPL). This means that you can download the plugin for free, modify it to your liking, and you don't have to put any copyright or backlinks on your page.
The plugin currently supports the following features, which can be enabled and configured individually:
- Google SEO 404:
- error pages return 404 error code instead of 200
- add Google's 404 widget to 404 error pages
- custom 404 error pages - Google SEO Meta:
- generate description meta tags for forums / threads / etc.
- specify canonical pages - Google SEO Redirect:
- redirect old URLs to new URLs
- this avoids URL breakage and double content - Google SEO Sitemap:
- dynamic generation of XML Sitemaps
- search engines find your content without crawling - Google SEO URL:
- replace standard id based URLs (e.g. showthread.php?tid=12345) with name based URLs (e.g. Thread-some-subject)
- UTF-8 in URLs is supported
- uniquifier is applied for non-unique URLs (see documentation for details)
Official release thread: http://community.mybboard.net/thread-46423.html