As you may well know when you usually view a directory on your computer following a link from a shortcut on your desktop. Don’t you sometime go back a level to check what else is interesting in there? Well this is the same with the internet. If you are going to be using furl with forward slashes this is what you are going to get from users. And this is what I am aiming to do on MSEO.

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The best tip to get better ranking on Search Engines without too much hassle is to write good content.
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This is a small and quick guide on the steps to perform to upgrade a skin from different versions of IPB like for example IP.Board 2.2.2 to 2.3.0

This guide assumes that you know how to navigate the IPB control panel and how to use the skin system on IPB. If you are new to skinning on IPB you may want to read my guide on how to make a skin for ipb.

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Which would be better to seperate keywords in url? underscores or dashes. By dashes I mean the minus sign like so: -

From what I read from a few articles is that google take words that are underscored as one whole word for example I have  a a url with this title “seperate keywords now” and if I underscored it like so “seperate_keywords_now” google and other search engines tends to count them as one word. But if you use the dash sign like “-” you would get something like this “seperate-keywords-now” and search engines will consider each division of the words as individuals.

I cannot seem to find the link to the article as I may have read it somewhere without booking it but, when I do find it i’ll post it up.

BTW I have just bought a book on seo for php, and I will review it once i go through the book tomorrow when it arrives. and anything that I find useful out of the book I will include it in minerva seo module before a release. again thanks for being patient with me on this

This is a mini guide on how to change the background color of IPB. I am answering this question as a lot of new users that I have found are looking for some quick edit of the background color.

First go to your admin control panel > Looks & feel > %choose your skin% >

On your drop menu button which is located on the far right corner and choose Edit Colours (CSS Easy Mode)

On this page you will find a section called body this section is for the whole content of the page. Under that there is a text box named other css attributes in there there should be a something like below:

background:#FFF

Now to change the color of the background you have to change the #fff to something else. To find the right hex color I recommend you give a visit to colorblender. Once you have found the color, there should be a small field below the color saying HTML #000000 just copy the hex and replace the #fff in the field above.

Optimising post content on invision power board for search engine description.

As a strong believer that meta description doesn’t really help your ranking on popular search engines, I recently got whipped really hard by not having meta description. This is really not making any of my post on my demo board for minerva seo appear content relevant, thus forcing me to add them, which I am not going to.

I am not going to because I know what google and other search engines are looking for, and that is the paragraph tag, yes that right, the <p> tags. So what I did is add this simple p tag in the post content to tell the search engines that it is the content of the page.

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