There's been a few well known SEO sites close their doors recently, geared for using with IPB. So it might not even be in vBSEO own best interest to pursue things with IPB 3 going of that. It seems people in general feel SEO add-ons are no longer needed for it, obviously. Something I agree with.
Will vbulletin 4 make vBSEO obsolete ?
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Yer... IPB is pretty solid already, and VB aren't to far of the mark to be perfectly honest... in relation to SEO aspects.Comment
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It is all related to correct semantic usage. Example of correct semantic usage can be checked on my site depkac.com
and compare this with vBulletin 4 template.
XenForo semantic structure is also correct.
For example if you check my site , you can see that header is located at the bottom of the templates ( inside footer template )Comment
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Well, I can't get vb4 sitemaps to hook up to google webmaster. Constant errors. X saying can't find the XML try submitting again . What's up with that? My sitemaps are showing, settings are 777 . no more than 10000 per sitemap.
Any help so I can get past go on this would be very appreciated. Is there a rewrite I need to add?Comment
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Semantic structure is not SEO. That is design... and yes, VB lack behind that element of design though I believe are fixing it for a soon release, so that templates are semantically correct and CSS cascades correctly. Again though... not really SEO, more design. Sure... SEO can encompass every little aspect when you get into it with a fine tooth comb, however; the main elements of SEO are to ensure correct internal link structure, readable URL's, titles, content available once, etc. Performing SEO upon a static page vs. a dynamic page that is user content created... content and keywords are also removed, as users can enter anything to affect semantic aspects.Comment
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Semantic structure is not SEO
Even something as trivial as adding text titles to ALT in images matters.
When I created a website ages ago. It took a lot of work, but I did finally get a SEO score of 100% with it in the end. You'll be amazed just how little matters to get that top SEO score, things you might think wouldn't matter at all, but kept the website hovering around 98% SEO optimized at first, until I figured what was missing out over time after looking over the HTML code I used and researching things.Last edited by MRGTB; Tue 28 Sep '10, 3:54pm.Comment
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Yes... but that sounds like some type of third party measurement tool you are using. SEO cannot be measured by such tools... they are gimmicks only. SEO is in fact a non-issue nowadays, irrelevant in the sense of SE's, as 99% of your entire SEO can be achieved via page content and link building. Nothing more, nothing less. All these nit picky aspects don't really matter... because what you can achieve with maybe one position by spending weeks or months trying to constantly manipulate your page data, you can achieve faster with one good link on the right site, right page... and job done.
People need to stop with SEO... because its dead. It died years ago. Good design + friendly URL's + good internal link structure + great external link campaign + fresh content = excellent exposure and rankings in Google. Anyone still hanging on ancient SEO is wasting their time. Sure, it doesn't hurt, but its a waste of time and if money is invested, absolute waste of money.
I renewed my VBSEO to check out the latest build... installed it and removed it 30 minutes later. Absolute nonsense.
If you want the following stats growth over a year, then you don't do it with old SEO nonsense. Exponential growth occurs via current methods, not outdated methods that achieve little overall actual site growth. Google is pretty much immune to old nonsense nowadays.
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Semantic structure is not SEO. That is design... and yes, VB lack behind that element of design though I believe are fixing it for a soon release, so that templates are semantically correct and CSS cascades correctly. Again though... not really SEO, more design. Sure... SEO can encompass every little aspect when you get into it with a fine tooth comb, however; the main elements of SEO are to ensure correct internal link structure, readable URL's, titles, content available once, etc. Performing SEO upon a static page vs. a dynamic page that is user content created... content and keywords are also removed, as users can enter anything to affect semantic aspects.Comment
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I think we will agree to disagree there Mert... it is an insignificant factor that makes little overall difference to Googles algorithms. I have studied Googles algorithms since their inception... and semantic HTML plays an insignificant aspect in SEO. VB4 is not semantic, and the above results posted prove gain without semantic HTML. Absolute nonsense... again, we will agree to disagree.Comment
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A site that has good semantic standards, lets Google bots, and others. Spider you site faster and much easier, so adds to your SEO.
Google themselves have even said it, so I don't see how you can argue it. Unless you think Google are wrong about their own bots?Comment
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Well, i am not an anti-vbseo guy, but have observed that, vbseo runs too many processes and is a resource hog on the server. I used vbseo for more than a year now, since we switched to vbulletin and i did find some significant traffic improvements. But again, as vbseo was always used with vbulletin, we never knew if the traffic was because of vbseo or if it was the natural traffic that our site got.
Due to the resource hog, we have now uninstalled vbseo and have switched over to the Advanced Friendly URLs and XML Site maps in vBulletin 4. I should say that, things seem to be better after the switch. The new URLs have got indexed very fast in Google and it looks quite promising. A few more SEO tuning in vBulletin 4 and I suppose it vBulletin is back to track from the 4.x release debacle!Comment
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