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I love how MyBB has an integrated Rewrite system as a core function.

Unfortunately, it's not very good with content relevancy in the sense that a rewritten URL just contains thread-(id of thread here).html . This isn't very useful for a search engine to know what the thread is about.

I suggest changing the rewrites to something like the below.

for showthread:
(id here)-(name of thread)-(if applicable page number after 1).html

Example: 1245-Google-SEO-page1.html is more relevant than thread-1245.html

For forumdisplay:
(id here)-(name of forum)-(if applicable page number after 1).html

Example: 25-General-Discussion-page2.html is more relevant than forum-25.html

For member.php:
(id-here)-(username here).html

Example: 25-Ryan-Gordon.html is more relevant than user-25.html

What are your thoughts?

Google SEO plugin does this already.

But why should we need to resort to installing plugins to get a feature that should be core??
Everyone here just promotes Google SEO, why not make it a core feature then instead of using the built in SEO rewrites??

I'm sure it will be done in 2.0 but right now 1.6 is feature locked.

I already know this
I am putting this up for consideration of 2.0, not 1.6 lol. :p

Why wait ten years for an inferior solution to appear in core when you can use Google SEO today

Why can't MyBB just make Google SEO (your mod) the core SEO mod for MyBB?

I agree the implemention should have been done correctly to begin with.

I doubt anything regarding this will be done until 2.0 anyways, but for the time being just install Google SEO.