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vBulletin is a powerful,
scalable and fully customizable forums package for your
web site. It has been written using the Web's quickest-growing
scripting language; PHP, and is complemented with a
highly efficient and ultra fast back-end database engine
built using MySQL.
What does that all mean? Simply that, in this writer's
opinion, vBulletin is the best forum software package
availalable.
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Why do I say this? Here are just
a few of the advantages I have found:
- vBulletin is search engine friendly. Search Engine spiders
have no problem crawling the pages and many times do very
well in the search engine ranking positions (SERPS);
- vBulletin is a commonly used forum software so many users
and potential users are familiar with it and how to use it;
- vBulletin forum software is 'user friendly' and easy for
new members to learn to use;
- The vBulletin administrator control panel is comprehensive
and easy to understand, thus those new to forum administration
will have an easier time learning how to control and get the
most out of their software package;
- vBulletin forum pages are generated and displayed by use
of templates that run on simple HTML programming, making it
easy to modify the loook and feel of your website;
- Many thousands of 'hacks', which are legal software modifications
and additions, are available to all vBulletin forum licencees;
- vBulletin is a great software to grow with. It can handle
a small or new community with ease, and will easily handle
your needs as your community grows. Some vBulletin communities
have many thousands of members and the software manages the
traffic easily;
The only downside that I have become aware of is that you have
to pay for vBulletin. It is not free. There are other forum
software packages out there that are free such as PHPBB and
SMF, but in my opinion dont offer the power or features as vBulletin
does.
Read on into this website to learn more about how to get the
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