SEO: Optimize Your SMF Forums For Search Engines

[Mr. Babatunde]

Optimus Brave is an SMF Search Engine Optimization Mod that can help you increase you Forum Rankings, now we will take a look at the features of Optimus Brave and how it can increase your Forum Search Ranking.

Optimus Brave Forum Sitemap

You don’t need to worry about smf forum sitemap or where to generate Good smf forum sitemap because Optimus Brave mod has a good sitemap that is widely accepted by all the major search enginess like Google, Bing and Yahoo etc.

Loking at the above image you will see that Optimus Brave SMF SEO MOD not only installs sitemap in your forum but can also updated your forum sitemap on  daily basis expercially when your publish i new articles.

Once you have downloaded and installed Optimus Brave mod it will now add the sitemap you may disable and delete any old sitemap and start using Optimus Brave mod.



How to submit your sitemap to search engings

To submit your sitemap to search engines is very easy with this mod called Optimus Brave, you don’t need to install any sitemap again all you need is to do is to install Optimus Brave in your forum and click Schedule tasks to generate and enable your sitemap, now you can test your sitemap by visiting your sitemap address Example www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Meta tags

Optimus Brave helps your to add Meta tags on your forum, adding meta tags Example Meta description on SMF FORUMS can sometime require you to edit some certain code on your forum root folder but with Optimus Brave smf SEO mod all you need is a few clicks and it will be done.

Verification Meta tags

As a webmaster you might be going to your Forum root folders to verify the ownership of your forum which can be stressful sometimes, with Optimus Brave you can verify your ownership on your forum Admin panel.

Having a forum other type of website require you to verify and claim the ownership of your website which includes the following verifications:

Yahoo tools, Google webmasters tool, MSN webmaster tools, Alexa site tools etc you can see the sample below

Optimus Brave robots txt

Optimus Brave mod has a built in robots txt for your forum, as you may know that robots txt is used to block search engines from indexing some part of you content which you wouldn’t like them to index or you can as well grant access to search engines through robots txt.

Robots txt is not only used to block or allow access to search engines but also to control and avoid duplicated content which can effect your search engine rankings, you can see the sample of Optimus Brave robots txt.



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