Its something very odd to compare PhpBB and WordPress, since they both are different platform of open source blogging and community activities. But i am going to compare both of them. The comparison is going to be done on the basis of the of the SEO (search engine optimization).

PhpBB SEO

When we talk of SEO for PhpBB, we are calling up one of the toughest thing to be implemented in it.

Why it is so difficult to be implemented? The reason is simple, no one likes to mess with the codes, specially when it comes to a live board. Is their any easy way available to do it? Yes their is an easy way to implement SEO over a fresh PhpBB forum, their is a pre-modded version available.

By default the URL’s are not custom writable in PhpBB, but the SEO mod enables the URL rewriting. And the new feature is equally powerful as the URL rewriting in wordpress.

It eliminates zero duplicate after the forum with full 301 URL redirect.

Well, this is the only SEO option available for PhpBB, and PhpBB-SEO is doing a great job in managing and continuously improving the SEO experience for the PhpBB users. And we personally recommend all our users to use PhpBB along with PhpBB-SEO to our users.

WordPress SEO

Implementing SEO on wordpress is one of the easiest task to be performed by a wordpress owner. Their are some of the great plug-in that makes this task very easy. In wordpress we have a lot of choices available, but we will be focusing mainly on the two top plug-ins for it.

All in one SEO

Its a great plug-in and is updated quite frequently, and is one of the pioneer of the SEO for wordpress. This is something we recommend all the wordpress bloggers.

Some Features:

• Canonical URLs
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
• Fine tune Page Navigational Links
• Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
• Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
• Nonce Security
• Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.

Platinum SEO

Well its a “predecessor” of All in one SEO since they are competitors of each other. This is also a great option for wordpress and a should have for the users. They have a great 301 redirect but they adds their site URL in the footer. And it provides a migration option from All in one SEO to Platinum SEO i.e. their own plug-in.

Some Features:

Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes

Canonical URLs

Optimized Post and Page Titles for search engines

Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically

Option to specify meta description and meta keywords tag for categories and tag pages (http://techblissonline.com/wordpress-categories/)**

Option to turn off Page title or Post title rewrites for any particular post or page (http://techblissonline.com/page-title/)**

Option to turn off Page title or Post title format for any particular post or page.

Helps you avoid duplicate content

Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page

Compatible with most other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.However you may have to disable All in One SEO pack

You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings>Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of Page rank or google penalty.

Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO

Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, nosnippet meta tags to any post/page.These options are not available in All in one SEO Pack.Find out why this option to set post/page level Meta Robots Tag useful?

Note: Both these are great plug-ins that helps in optimizing your blog for search engines. But at a time their should be only one plug-in functional (active) on a blog.

And if you require help with the installation of these SEO services you can take help of our professional service for wordpress and PhpBB.