In the past week or so I have been asking for some reviews of mine and Henrik’s Msn Discussion Forum (http://www.msndiscussion.com) the responses have been great, one of these requests was posted in the review section on PhpBBHacks, so far only one person has replied to my post, he goes by the username of “mdvaldosta”, here’s what he said:

very nice looking theme, nice work with the layout.

I’d suggest removing session ID’s if you want to get anything other than your home page indexed by search engines.

By the way, your name looks familiar. DP?

The thing that caught my eye was of course this “I’d suggest removing session ID’s if you want to get anything other than your home page indexed by search engines.”, I kind of knew what session ideas were but I didn’t fully know what he meant by saying that I should remove them, so well I decided I would do some research, I came up with the following sites:

http://www.devside.net/web/config/phpBB
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=29
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1568
http://www.top25web.com/blog/2004/02/disabling-session-ids-in-phpbb-forums.html

I read through them and understood why search engines like Google have trouble browsing sites with session id’s enabled so as I now knew why I made changes to my forum as required

And also found some Search Engine Optimization Mods:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2841
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2320
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2040

I recommend you read through these articles and try some of the mod’s out I haven’t seen the changes in Google yet but I’m sure I will soon and so will you if you have read these articles and haven’t already removed session ID’s.