The goal of this work is just to do our creampie forums easy to find through search engines. I can explain why:

Due to the session IDs most forums are not spidered by search engines very well. Sometimes not at all. The primary goal of this MOD is to make the phpBB URLs spider friendly. Not just to Google but to ALL spiders.

Making the URL’s search engine friendly is not all that is needed. Google has recently penalized phpBB pages. viewforum.php and viewtopic.php now have a much lower page rank than they had earlier so keyword frequency and pagerank drain are important to consider. This modification will greatly improve both of these things.

Directing search engines to the right pages is also important. The topic pages are what you ultimately want to have indexed. Other words, links and images are actually diluting this. This modification will help focus search engines on the right pages and text.

So, now forums looks a little bit different from an older version, but it seems ok. If you find any bugs, please post about in a bug section.

You can visit my creampie forum by clicking on this link Creampie Forums