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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

With all due respect SEO will NOT "make or break" this mod. This mod will make or break itself- it is one of the most requested mods by far and it doesn't need approval from Google to be told how great it is. SEO should never be put ABOVE the usability of your forums and your users... SEO is second to the user experience- a strong second but a definite second none the less.

I beg to differ mate...you can sit there and look at really nice forums that no one knows exist OR you can create a forum that gets known and used.

I tried an experiment recently with 2 identical sites with different domain names...1 with no SEO optimisation and 1 with extensive SEO optimising...guess which one started getting used and which one still today only has just a handful of users and posts.

So, yes this mod is fantastic but if it comes at the cost of your site not getting used and known to its full potential or getting blackbanned by Google etc then it isn't good now is it?

As I said I really do hope that there are no SEO impacts as I very much want this mod to work and like many others are screaming for it but if it does come at an SEO cost then site owners, like me, need to know this to make up our own minds if we want a multi site as one to look at or separate sites that get used but with more work.

With this being an IB mod I guess asking if you are going to do an Xenforo version is out of the question?