getting forums spidered

Hi,
i recently launched my forums (phpbb) at www.planetwicked.com, although my site has been indexed by google, my forum has not been indexed...i dont have much content on the site accept a temporary homepage, as my main site is still under construction and would be launched in about 30 days.
Now i wanted to know what basic measures should i take to get my forum pages spidered..( i cant afford professional SEO as i have already exceeded my budget trying to get most of the main features of the main site up, although at later stages i may do it)..i am not into programming at all...all though i can make little changes.
any recommendations would be welcomed.

The biggest problems with forums are that they use Query_Strings to generate the pages. This means that, in the eyes of the SE, there exist an infinite number of pages on your website that could be spidered. As a result, unless you have a high link popularity, spiders will not crawl past the entry page. To get around this, you need to create static pages that can be linked to. There is a script around ( i forget its name) that uses .htaccess to parse a string like this



index.php?id=3&action=post becomes
index.php/3/post/

Spiders will have a better time crawling this. i am going to try it out. you will have to search for it to find the code though since i forget its site offhand

Andrew

To do this you would need to read up on something called mod_rewrite (assuming you are hosting on apache server)

To test this you will need to edit your .htaccess file on the server..

Read this for more info http://forums.digitalpoint.com/show...262&postcount=3

it seems like rewrite module would be a great choice, like what devshed.com is doing