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In this tutorial, I will teach you how to optimize the titles of PHPBB forums posts to be SEO friendly. I talk about optimizing it to be in the following structure:

Topic Title : Forum Name

This tutorial is for PHPBB3 forums and Prosilver theme.

1. Download PHPBB3 SEO Optimal Titles.
2. Unzip the file and follow all instructions located in the test file that begins from “Open: styles/prosilver/template/overall_header.html”
3. After editing and saving processes completed, open “languages/en/common.php” file and find “Index Page” code then replace it with the forum name. Save it and upload it again.
4. Go to your control pane and choose “Styles” and refresh “Template”,”Themes” and “Imagesets”.
5. Check changes.

By default, the title of the post will come after the main title of the blog to be in the following structure: Blog Title >> Post Title.

That structure is not good for SEO because search engines crawl the title from left to right and you need to edit the title to show the post title before the main blog title to get it in the following structue: Post Title >> Blog Title.

Steps to do it:

1. Go to your blog “Dashboard”.
2. Choose “Layout”.
3. Choose “Edit HTML”.
4. Download Full Template, to recover the old template if you make any mistakes.
5. Find this code: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

6. Replace it with this code:
<!– Start Widget-based: Changing the Blogger Title Tag –>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
<b:section id=’titleTag’>
<b:widget id=’Blog2′ locked=’false’ title=’Blog Posts’ type=’Blog’>
<b:includable id=’comments’ var=’post’/>
<b:includable id=’postQuickEdit’ var=’post’/>
<b:includable id=’main’ var=’top’><title><b:loop values=’data:posts’ var=’post’><b:include data=’post’ name=’post’/></b:loop> ~ <data:blog.title/></title></b:includable>
<b:includable id=’backlinkDeleteIcon’ var=’backlink’/>
<b:includable id=’feedLinksBody’ var=’links’/>
<b:includable id=’backlinks’ var=’post’/>
<b:includable id=’status-message’/>
<b:includable id=’feedLinks’/>
<b:includable id=’nextprev’/>
<b:includable id=’commentDeleteIcon’ var=’comment’/>
<b:includable id=’post’ var=’post’><data:post.title/></b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
<!– End Widget-based: Changing the Blogger Title Tag –>

7. Save Template and check the changes.