Google recently introduced their own social button just like those we commonly see, such as Facebook Share, Tweet It, Digg It, etc. Just like Facebook and Twitter button that let you share content to your followers or friends, Google +1 button let people who love your content to recommend it on Google search.

When your website can be accessed via several URLs, such as http://www.example.com & http://example.com, you might want to decide a best URL and use only that URL whenever you link back to your site, because this helps your site in terms of SEO.

You can validate your website using this validation service. Recently I have updated all my free wordpress themes to be 100% xhtml valid. After validating each of them, I found that there were some common errors…

If you use the default code given by youtube to embed a video, you will notice that it failed to pass xHTML validation. This is because <embed> was deprecated in favor of the <object></object> element.

An example of SEO friendly URL can be seen in this page. Compare it with urls like http://mysite.com/?t=34 , you will find it easier to remember and the it also clearly tells you what this page is about. Furthermore, the words in the URL might match the search keywords, bringing more traffic from search engines.

No offence, but the fact is phpBB has a lot of weaknesses, not seo-friendly being one of them. However, with some simple steps you can improve the SEO of your phpBB. Here in this guide, we will add some basic SEO features to your phpBB by using a better Site Title, adding Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions.