Joeychgo
06-10-2005, 07:05 PM
OK, I've had vBulletin 3.50 for less then a day now. Here are some first observations regarding the search engine optimization aspects that ive seen so far.
For starters, I would remove the code in the headinclude template, and place Title, Description and Keyword meta tags into the individual templates. Mainly for 3 reasons.
First, It seems inefficient to have the Title tags in the templates and the Description and Keyword tags in the headinclude template;
Second, keeping them all in the individual templates allows for easier customization;
My biggest concern is that large hacks such as vBGarage and vBArticles would be stuck with the Sitewide Description and Sitewide Keywords. These types of hacks can have many pages each of which need to have proper meta tags for good results in the search engine, especially hacks like the article hacks because they generally have alot of keyword rich content.
I wrote about this here: SEO of vBulletin 3.50 Beta - Meta Tags (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=758)
I also noticed that vBulletin still has not chosen to implement any header tags. I also wrote about this here:Header tags (h1, h2 & h3) (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=759)
Ive also noticed that Jelsoft has implemented rel="nofollow" tags many times in vBulletin 3.50 (beta). It appears the idea here is to stop passing PR so some pages. I am still researching this but the intended use of these tags is not for this purpose.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Source: Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/archives/2005_01_01_googleblog_archive.html)
It also seems Jelsoft has some belief that passing PR around your own site to be some kind of problem. Thats the only reason I can see why they have used the rel="nofollow" tags the way they have.
For example, the "contact Us" link in the footer has the rel="nofollow" tag. I can think of no reason to use the tag here except concern about passing Page Rank to the Contact Us (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/sendmessage.php) Page.
--- Ill post more as I find it and ill try to find answers to any questions you might have ---
For starters, I would remove the code in the headinclude template, and place Title, Description and Keyword meta tags into the individual templates. Mainly for 3 reasons.
First, It seems inefficient to have the Title tags in the templates and the Description and Keyword tags in the headinclude template;
Second, keeping them all in the individual templates allows for easier customization;
My biggest concern is that large hacks such as vBGarage and vBArticles would be stuck with the Sitewide Description and Sitewide Keywords. These types of hacks can have many pages each of which need to have proper meta tags for good results in the search engine, especially hacks like the article hacks because they generally have alot of keyword rich content.
I wrote about this here: SEO of vBulletin 3.50 Beta - Meta Tags (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=758)
I also noticed that vBulletin still has not chosen to implement any header tags. I also wrote about this here:Header tags (h1, h2 & h3) (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=759)
Ive also noticed that Jelsoft has implemented rel="nofollow" tags many times in vBulletin 3.50 (beta). It appears the idea here is to stop passing PR so some pages. I am still researching this but the intended use of these tags is not for this purpose.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Source: Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/archives/2005_01_01_googleblog_archive.html)
It also seems Jelsoft has some belief that passing PR around your own site to be some kind of problem. Thats the only reason I can see why they have used the rel="nofollow" tags the way they have.
For example, the "contact Us" link in the footer has the rel="nofollow" tag. I can think of no reason to use the tag here except concern about passing Page Rank to the Contact Us (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/sendmessage.php) Page.
--- Ill post more as I find it and ill try to find answers to any questions you might have ---
