Removing the "no permission" buttons from the top of the pages will increase what is displayed in your SERP's. This also helps the search engines get to your content faster, and by having less code to read before the actual start of your threads/posts. Removing these two buttons is a simple task and only takes a few minutes.

 

First we're going to do this for the forum viewing template (where you see the list of threads)

 

Login to your Admin Area

 

System -> Look & Feel -> Manage Templates -> Forum View -> forumIndexTemplate

 

Locate and remove

 

				<else />
					<li class='disabled'><span>{$this->lang->words['forum_no_start_topic']}</span></li>

This removes the "You cannot start a new topic" tshirts-sig.txt

 

Next we'll do the same for the topic viewing template. This is where you'll get the most SEO bennefit!

 

System -> Look & Feel -> Manage Templates -> Topic View -> topicViewTemplate

 

Find and remove:

 

<else />
				<li class='disabled'><span>{$this->lang->words['top_cannot_start']}</span></li>

		<else />
						<li class='disabled'><span>{$this->lang->words['top_cannot_reply']}</span></li>

The codes in both these templates should appear twice. Here at Invision Community Forum SEO Setup Help, we've left the bottom notice intact for guests, while removing the top to help increase the SEO of our site.

Cool ... thanks for the tip!

Great advice John!

 

I was viewing a few different forums running IPB3 and their search results was poluted with that.