The purpose of this post is to simply answer what software to use for a forum. I think bbPress, so the question is bbPress good for search engine optimization? I think you know my answer it is yes. But lets look why, this free lightweight program is the program you should choose over other, even pay forum software.
I have a bbPress forum. It is a small little forum, however right out of the box without doing any special modifications I have noticed and then many of my posts rank very high in search engine results.
This is because bbPress was written with search engine optimization in mind. Maybe not directly, but rather it was written in a format which would promote user friendly, that is the reader, navigation and usability.
It is the newest kid on the block so it only uses new ideas and understanding of semantic code and how semantic content should look to be user friendly.
Let’s look at specifically why bbPress is good for SEO
- Pretty Permalinks
- The title of the each thread is both a link and an H1
- Semantic HTML code no layout-tables
- very fast loading
- good tagging
- Pinging and playback trace back
Other factors besides SEO
There are a lot of nice little plugins and features in the forum software that other forum software does not have. Further, bbPress is so easy to use and set up, that with the time saved on set up and learning time (it took me about 1/2 hour A to Z ), the time saved you can actually get going on marketing your forum, and therefore, indirectly the ease of use mean better results in search engines.
Automattic.com has a pretty active open source development team committed to continuing the development of their projects in the right direction. Anything they have produced has really taken off. I believe in open source as a solutions.
Therefore, there is no way I would consider anything but bbPress for running even a large forum, it is the future and has many SEO benefits.
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