Hope there will be a official Seo add-on with sitemap feature or at least a integrated option to switch on/off a Seo for forum at the next update of vb (hopefully vb 4.0 ).
Seo is really a need and the only option for using it shouldn’t be the third party tools…
Regards..
SEO isn't a need. It's a want.
We've done considerable ammounts of SEO work, what we don't currently have is Human Readable URLS / CRULS.
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Originally Posted by Dilly
for some its a need and for some a "want" and for the rest a "dont want" :P thats why i would prefer a option that allow to turn on/off..
and notice... since this vbseo (160 dollar c**p) is out i lost lot of serp in much keywords.. dont tell me it makes no difference.. (:
its fine that we have some addons like zoints and so on but as long as there is no support for that it cant be have a future.
So the fact is;
for me its a need!! bah :P
Last edited by viyanali; Sun 15th Jul '07 at 1:41am.
means that we will have but we dont have currently (:?
No. It means that vBulletin already has been optimised but lacks readable urls, which to me, doesnt mean anything.
And even if it does do something, however small, if everyone has it it ceases to be special and you wont benefit.
vBulletin already has SEO.for some its a need and for some a "want" and for the rest a "dont want" :P thats why i would prefer a option that allow to turn on/off..
Readable URLs are not a need. They are a want. Search engines do not need them.
as far as i know there is a seo for the archive and not for the normal view of threads...
ah and search engine dont need them to index your page but there is a factor called "relevance" at searches..
for example..
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=for...&start=20&sa=N
it makes a big difference when that u have the keyword in your url then just in your content.. Best u have it in your domainadress if not then a "human readable" static url adress is needed.. of course if you want to get some more traffic from search engines.. i see that the most users which dont care about seo are the one with a bigger communtiy. You not alone in this business so if you dont care or "dont need" read something else.. its still a suggestion.. and there are lot of people who pays dozens of money for seo.. and to be hornest i would pay jelsoft for a offical seo add-on but sure not a third party tool without offical support..
To be clear..there should be at least one offical (choosable) option for seo...
Dilly is correct. Not...a...need...
I don't know much about search engines/SEO (so please correct me if I am wrong), but why won't it be beneficial if everyone uses it? It all depends on the thread-titles of your friendly URLS I thought? So if you have (unique) thread-titles and vBulletin supports friendly URLS, then you will find these threads quicker in Google I would assume?
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I don't see how anyone would not want good seo. Vbb imo out of the box is more seo friendly than any other forum software out there.
Lets just say you ran a forum and you had a competitor that had a forum that was almost exactly the same subject wise, and you saw them as a threat.
If you got a major component of visitors from search engines, (and you'd have to assume they did too), you'd want to have an advantage over them if at all possible.
If both forums had the same SEO, the results would both be 'better' by the same amount, whereas, if you had 'more' SEO than them you would come out on top.
Once everyone does it, it ceases being special.
so only the guys who pays money for vbseo should have a better seo right?:P (not both)
But i thought a little bit since i start this thread.. I mean when jelsoft brings a offical seo addon most vbseo user would switch to the offical one of course. (my opinion)
Maybe thats a reason too why "they" dont care about this...
Just no one should tell me its difficult to do that for jelsoft.. i saw so much scripts forum-softwares and so on (even simple ones) that have built in seo option.. (not only for archive threads !)
There are free solutions available at vBulletin.org and anyone is free to make their own mod_rewrite rules for this.
The versions of vBulletin 3.6.0 and above address many of the current SEO issues so the vBulletin team aren't sitting on their backsides doing nothing.
Sure the argument over static versus dynamic URLS is currently in favour of the static URL, though please note that Google can indeed crawl your dynamic forum.
Google is looking for decent and unique content as anyone who has read their information for webmasters will appreciate.
SEO is continually changing as Google, Yahoo and MSN continue to improve the accuracy of their search results. What is considered as perfection today may be regarded as the dogs dinner tomorrow.
There is more to gaining a high ranking in the search engine results than just installing another piece of software - sometimes good old-fashioned use of keywords and forum titles works wonders!
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