Which forum platform has the best "SEO Functionality"?

[statman87]

I have used vBulletin with vBSEO for a number of years and have been happy with the SEO results that I have achieved. However, vBulletin's recent releases have become unstable, full of bugs and are not secure.

I am intending on starting some new forums in the near future and would like to move away from vBulletin.

I have heard good things about Xenforo and IP Boards. Does anybody have any experience with either platforms built in SEO functionality?

[statman87]

Looks interesting! I have never heard of that platform before, it might be a tad expensive for what I require.

[statman87]

Thanks - that helps a lot!

I think Xenforo seems the most logical choice at the moment!

[firstconversion]

Have a look at http://vanillaforums.com/ I quite like the way they add gamification and badges etc You can see it in action on Penny Arcade http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/artists-corner

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[Francisco_Meza]

I have experience with IP Boards (invisionpower.com). Their software could be very powerful, but you will need to know some coding to be able to do certain things. I haven't used it in over 1 year, but everytime I wanted to do something basic, it seemed like I had to do coding. At the time I thought those features were something that should be standard with no coding required.

Xenforo was AWESOME. Look at their demo. You can request one and I think it's for 3 days. You can extend it too.

I work with vBulletin and they have too many security issues. I used to need to upgrade almost once per month.

If I was able to rank them in order, it would go like this:

1. Xenforo

2. vbulletin

3. IP Boards

I have never used VBSEO so I can't say anything about it.

Hope that helps.