VBulletin or phpBB? why?

VBulletin or phpBB? why?

Money is not the problem. My main concern is Search Engine Optimization and user friendliness...

Cheers,
Nima

 

VBulletin all the way,

If you need to have every question answered by a true pro, we actually have a member here that is the vb pro

Here is his awesome forum

http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/

They can answer very question in the world

 

vBulletin is certainly more SE-friendly out of the box
but what about others, like myBB, etc?

 

How do you say VB is more SEO out of box?

 

Because phpBB needs to be modded just to allow search engines to even crawl it!

 

WHAT? That is definitely not right

 

Are you saying that I'm wrong, or that it's wrong that this must be done?

seriously, by default phpBB includes the session ID in the querystring, which SEs don't like, and therefore won't crawl. You have to mod it to remove the string for robots!

 

phpBB out of box is can/ and is easily crawled by SE bots and indexed (i know this for sure by experience)...

Dynamic Links used to be not good for SEs, but not anymore. It's been a long time now that SEs crawl dynamic URLs just as good as static ones...

 

I'm well aware that SEs can crawl dynamic URLs. But most don't index if there's a sessionID or sid variable present in the URL

that's all

 

Go with vbulletin. It is extremely secure and it has more features than phpbb. Also, there are numerous seo tools available for vb.

 

no choosing between VB and phpbb if money is not the problem
VB is the best.

 

this topic is always a good one! keeps coming up! i use them both and am happy with both! vB cost alittle if you have many forums up, but other then that they both do what they are designed to do well!

 

vbulletin if you have bucks $$ in your pocket,

otherwise mybb its like vbulletin but free...

i use phpbb also but i don't like it and i will choose vbulletin if both would free

 

This isn't even a serious question. vBulletin is much more feature rich and powerful. Then you get into the legions of coders creating useful and addicting addons over at vbulletin.org.

 

I prefer vBulletin for it's search engine friendliness. As it has been said before, phpBB uses session IDs, which are not very SE friendly.

- Edward 602

 

Are you saying VB doesnt?

Isn't a link with the "?" an indication for session IDs? if so DP is using that...

 

try this out:

http://www.phpBBFM.net

Every mod in existance added to phpBB - it's better than vBulletin by far

 

No, a "?" in the URL is simply used for passing in variable values to the page. A session ID is something different. With a visible session ID in the URL you'd end up with a problem where the URL would appear to be different to every user. For example, if you have page named index.php with a variable named abc being passed into it you might have a URL that looks like "index.php?page=abc" but if the session IDs were visible and being used in the URL's then you'd see something like "index.php?page=abc&session=USER1" but a different user might see "index.php?page=abc&session=DIFFERENTUSER" as the URL.

 

If you know your job as an admin you don't need to worry about a good or bad script. All of them have pluses and minuses. If you know how to work the script, then you have nothing to worry about. I had great success with phpBB too, with VB, IPB or whatever. As for SEO .. my latest phpBB is better seen by google than my older bigger VB ... so it's a matter of niche, content and other "ifs"

 

Does VBulletin have many addons like phpBB has or does it work great out of box?