Discussion, questions, and suggestions about improving your vBulletin for Search Engine Optimization.
vBulletin handles page titles and descriptions differently then I like. For starters, the page descriptions do not change from one page to the next. So the description for each and every post and thread are the same. This does not help search engines (or adsense) figure out what a thread is...
This is one of the more common questions. How to Remove the "- Powered by vBulletin" in page title tags Go to your ADMINCP> Language & Phrases> Search in Phrases In your Phrases Search for: x_powered_by_vbulletin (be sure to choose to search by Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name) ...
Once you've established your forum title in vBulletin Options, that title will appear on all sub-forum, member profile and thread pages. I am of the opinion you can experience much better thread title relevancy by removing the forum title from these pages. Since everyone removes the 'Powered by...
There has been alot of discussion regarding duplicate content and how search engines deal with it. Often, people claim there is a duplicate content "penalty" that is imposed by search engines, specifically Google. One blog writer wrote: By extension, people have come to believe that...
This is something I try to do with every forum. You can see it in action here. Once you have identified your main keywords, create a web page for each one of those phrases. Why? Several reasons. First, because unlike on a forum thread, you control the exact content, so the page can be...
I recently purchased Chicago Velocity (www.chicagovelocity.com) - When I bought the forum, it was running on 3.50, had 2 styles that were terrible and very few working hacks. It was a PR2 forum with aboud 2000 indexed pages, a little under 3500 members and about 700,000 posts. I have made...
You might wonder - whats wrong with it? For search engines to properly index and assign pagerank, you need your links to be consistant. This is where the problem comes in. you dont generally link to the stock URL, but instead to the simple URL. Stock - the link looks like...
I know nothing about Social bookmarking.. is that a worthy traffic source? or is it just useless outgoing links..? I see this forum doesnt have them at the bottom of each threads..
Hello All, I have a website and have recently changed its home page title, description and keywords which has lead to increase in search engine ranking on which I was optimizing. My Question is that, what should I do now to maintain that ranking. Please guide.
There are a few strategies for this: 1: Stemming Use the foremost keyword for the page to generate subsidiary and tertiary keywords. Put the first 3 or so surrounded by the title marker, and put the 12(ish) keywords contained by your keyword tag. 2: Keywords + Branding Use 2 keywords in the...
H1, H2 and H3 tags can help search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN figure out what a web page is about. SO this is an important mod to make. It also is good for your members as it gives a more descriptive introduction to a thread. As always, you should back up your forums before...
Would this affect my SEO as in my htaccess i have www.mytalkcarolina.com as the permanent url. I was thinking about taking it off and see what that will do but any suggestions? will my site still have google index without www or will it take www all the way?
I would be giving you some tips that distinguish the real web designer from the rest of the pack. 1. I will strictly ask you to not to have a flash site designed for you if you have to be at the top of the search engine. Yes, I know it looks awesome but it does nothing more than hindering your...
Today is the first time I've ever see a Windows RSS Platform 2.0 Spider on my site. Does anyone else get this one on your site?
I'm doing this explanation http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73582&postcount=4 After work experience show you the link after the amendment This is a picture of the problem How do I prevent the links do not appear
I have followed the instructions within this forum to create a robots.txt. Everything passes in the webmaster tools diag on google and I get a status 200 return. However, the spider is still crawling my calander and trying to post an event. Also I have noticed that on my google webmaster...
Problem in the template forumdisplay I placed this code in the template forumdisplay <title>$foruminfo<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase</phrase></if> - $vboptions</title> <meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo $vboptions" /> <meta name="description"...
hi all I want to understand this Thread here I do not understand this code $threadcache = preg_replace ('/\n(\s*)/', " ", $threadcache); $threadcache = preg_replace ('/\r(\s*)/', " ", $threadcache); What is the name of the template by the author of the code
Crawl errors in googel This a picture of the errors How to correct these errors?
googel Topics repeated twice in the indexing And how your post is not indexed How to Correct this problems ?
hellow all When testing robots.txt on my google webaster its give me this result Googlebot Googlebot-Mobile Allowed Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions
Do you want to secure a top ranking in search engine result pages(SERP)? I think every one is going to answer - Yes. And a very common belief is that add lot of most searched keywords in the meta tags of your web pages and see your site skyrocketing. But it feels highly frustrating when this...
I happened to consider this and thought I would open it up for discussion. Let me start off by making one point. If you look at the PHPbb support forum, they have Total Posts 3,107,413 Total Topics 531,496
I was wondering - Google Webmaster Tools says that vBulletin creates duplicate meta descriptions and pages, which is true because you can obtain a page with two different URLs (thread and page.) What if I was able to include in the meta description different words or identifiers that would make it...
Ok we all know that the vB devs, in their infinite wisdom, created a tag cloud for vB, but no option to add it to forumhome. You can only get to it through the search feature. SO, my question is....... what do we need to do, in order to point our friendly spidies to the tags page (tags.php)? ...
Hey everyone, I figured I would share this here, its my first blog post so its not the best written, I'm still getting used to writing anything longer than a forum post. This is just based on my experiences and I know alot of you wont totally agree with my advice but feel free to add to it and...
I have seen some of the vB forums added into technorati. But when I add mine, it shows me an error that its been flagged by our system and check guidelines. In guidelines, its stated that they do not accept forums, how come other forums are there?
Some reason my google and yahoo are not being pinged on my board but the rest are, live, ask and msn or something or moreover. I had a friend who put his vBSEO on my board but i took it out and replaced all the files in my server with the 2.5 version since i was thinking having vBSEO would be...
Ive seen Yahoo basically move into my Lincoln vs Cadillac forum and never leave. I was getting ready to send Yahoo a bill for rent! But I just checked to see how many pages are in the Yahoo Index - 201,000!!!!
im using their webmasters live panel but im not sure if i have to buy something from them like advertising or something or submitting a sitemap or link for their bot to crawl through my site, im using vbseo, now i thought that would help but google and yahoo are the ones taking the bite out of my...
Hello, I have a lot of pages indexed on Google and Yahoo, but I seem to be lacking on MSN. How can I get myself better indexed within the MSN search engine? -Raymond
Hi All, I had already setup clean URLS for my forum. However I have noticed some potential problems using this and what like to know what others think. I have moved over to VBulletin from another forum software as well as decided to put it on a subdomain instead. So another words All my old pages...
So, let me start by saying, I've spent days reading just about everything I can about vB and SEO and I feel like I know less than when I started! There's so many conflicting opinions as to what works and what doesn't! However, I do understand that's the nature of SE's and SEO :D I own...
Hi all I did a web page analysis on my home page and these results came up, I am assuming they are bad. This page contains too many URLs. This tag contains 259 urls. Some Search Engines have problems with more than 100 urls on a page. The size of the web page is to big. The size of the web...
There have been a lot of ongoing discussions (some quite heated) as to how a site can improve it's performance with Google. And who better to provide us a bit of information, than the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog? Pay particular attention to this list of best practices used inside...
When visiting a lot of sites, I am floored to see all the outgoing links that exist on the forum's index page. Links to sub-forums, links to the last post in each forum and links to member profiles. All this without scrolling down to the What's Going On box, at the bottom of the page. And then...
As the title says, what things can be done to get listed for a particular keyword in first or second page of results?
Im good with so many other things but im very noobish with making a sitemap, can anyone tell me how one is made or where i can have one created for my website? I cant figure it out on my own so im asking anyone here that uses google sitemaps
I have seen mu urls have dropped from 5339 to 4230. I am really worried, why so?
how do i create new page on my forum ? i tried to create it but it's not succeed thanks
where do you put the meta tag for verification from google webmaster tools? my forum is the homepage and its all php code when i open it in notepad. can i just put it in the header? it says to put it on ur homepage but will it hurt if its on every page? anyone please?
I installed vbSEO Sitemap Generator on vb v3.6.7 and have a couple questions that maybe you can help me with. I'm still new to this stuff and not totally clear on how this is supposed to work. 1. I generated my sitemap successfully. Very cool. And it said it submitted it to Google - but I...
plz tell my how i can make it ? my homepage is not cool like vbulletin-faq.com thanks
Im using vbSEO but where or how can i set it to allow users or someone to download files of my sitemap contents? I have no idea on how to set this up, can someone tell me how or should i remove vbSEO and look for another SEO program for vb? I have no clue what im doing with vbSEO..
A few months ago, I decided I should put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, and test vBSEO. So I contacted Joe Ward of Crawability (vBSEO's Corporate Name), and offered to do a test on one of my forums. Joe, graciously agreed to give me a free license to test. I have a forum, Car...
Not sure what really everyone wants to see here....lol site i installed the test copy of vbseo on is www.talkdelaware.com installed vbseo last night, here are the current stats (hope these are what we need to compare, anything else needed LMK) overall keywords
well if this image works, i circled it Im wondering why i cant have the url of the google sitemap directed towards the correct way. Like i said, im very noobish and new at vBSEO, so can someone tell me what i can do to make it go to my reports instead of it going to a webpage error like...
One of the websites (vBulletin) I use has all their threads show up as 'http://site/name-of-the-thread'. I'd really like to achieve this on my site. I asked the owner and was told it was part of vBSEO. Are there any other ways of achieving this outside of vBSEO? Or is that the only way? :confused:
This doesn't directly relate to my forum, it's to do with the content pages I have attached to it, well, the files. I've just discovered people are going directly to my directories for the content pages as they can then click directly on the files, thus bypassing the site. I've had two reasons...
Hi, I am just curiious to know whether installing a URL Rewrite hack on my board will help me indexing better in google? I am planning to install this http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=173738&highlight=rewrite
A year ago, I began a test of vBSEO on a forum I had recently aquired, but had not SEO'd or actively worked on. I installed vBSEO under the supervision of their staff and configured vBSEO under their specific recomendations. This is a simple comparison. On their website, Crawability claims: ...
The right to use the trademark GMAIL may not belong to Google, but instead may belong to to Cencourse, a Miami, Fla., company that provides multimedia services - despite Google attempting to get the trademark for themselves. This dispute began back in 2004 after Google was refused a trademark...
I went thru VBSEO test results thread. It's interesting. I don't have VBSEO. I like one of their features "Footer archive links". Is there a mod that could help to automatically create footer archive links?
anyone else take a PR hit on the last update? I lost 2-3 points on all my forums. weird. lost SERP rank too for main keywords to crap flashdoor way page sites??! wtf. dont know what is up. I'm not insanely SEOed, but certainly more so than most. all whitehat. sigh. just wanted to...
Daniweb supplies a great mod_rewrite for vbulletin, apart from it doesn't work in 3.0.7, so here is the correct version that does. If you have a previous version of vbulletin, I would suggest going to Daniweb and using the version posted their. Step 1 Admin CP > Styles & Templates > Search...
vBulletin 3.0.x Installation Instructions A. Upload ALL the files in the 'upload' folder to your forum root folder in BINARY mode. Note: Ensure all files are uploaded with the same folder structure provided in your 'upload' folder. B. License your vBSEO instance: CHMOD 666 the...
My head hurts. I have read so many threads about these two SEO programs, lots of conflicting stories. However some of those threads are a year or two old. So.... Has VBSEO or Zoints SEO improved in the last year or so? Is it worthwhile installing either of these hacks? I am running Zoints Tags...
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