SEO: How to get forum pages indexed?

[jdougher]

Very frustrated at the lack of proper indexing of forum pages. How can one improve the SEO friendliness of this forum software?

By contrast I run a forum using vBulletin and vBSEO, and pages are indexed each day, to the point where if I type a title of a thread created the previous day, it'll show up in Google the next day. Not so with this software!

[Dannii]

You just need lots of good back links, as you do with any forum software.

A semantic theme won't hurt either, so use SMF 2 RC2 (when it's released), or one of Forsakenlad's themes with an older version. Other authors have also made semantic themes, but I think Forsakenlad's are the best!