Best Forum Platform from an SEO perspective

[djlaidler]

Hi All,

I am looking to start a eCommerce business and would like to centre the user engagement of the site around a forum.

Can anyone suggest a forum platform that adopts good SEO practice?

So far my considerations are;

• phpBB
• vBulletin
• Wordpress with bbPress plugin
• Wordpress with Tal.ki plugin

Anyone used these with great success? Do you have another suggestion?

I am simply in the preliminary stage of sourcing something and am eager to here your thoughts...

Thanks in advance...

Dan

[William.Lau]

Hey Dan,

I have some experience with a few of these. Mainly phpBB and vBulletin. I think both are pretty well and it is really all about flexibility in modifying SEO needs, in which both can allow you to do easily.

I personally like vBulletin and their community, but it could be quite expensive and does hog up resources. phpBB is open source last time I used it (years ago), and it is great to build off of and there are plenty of successful sites running on phpBB.

Bottomline is your budget. If you have the budget go with vB, if you are just testing something..try phpBB. They are both pretty good.