I have been thinking about this for a while, and tonight I decided to remove VBSEO from my forum. Please, this is not a negative about VBSEO, nor do I want it to turn into such a thread, this is just my thoughts on my own forum and future vBulletin direction.
Years ago I believe such a product was essential to aid vBulletin with search engines, and it was... however; technologies have changed drastically with SE's and both vBulletin software itself has changed, and from a standard install I see no major issue with the software today that really tells me to pay another provider to tune the software further, because its not really essential any more. Yes, vBulletin still lacks some basics like friendly URL's and the ability to include the "nofollow" attribute out of the box, but I believe vb4 is certainly working towards being more friendly in some of these instances.
Knowing some of the coming developments from lots of reading here, I have decided to strip VBSEO out of my own forums in preparation to the newer version of vBulletin and run with their standard out of the box solutions. Sure, its painful to have all your URL's re-indexed and lose a little traffic for a short time, but its nothing overall in the scheme off things IMHO.
The more I read here and upon vb.org, I find it will be much easier to travel ahead with less reliance upon outside software and integration, and instead stay as close as possible to an out of the box solution, especially now vb are really stepping things up with content management and listening to users, implementing factors that are just expected from content mangement software of any kind, be it CMS, blogging or forum software.
I am looking forward to the new release and times ahead... and now no more extra fee's to another which I can contribute towards the VBCMS for all of my forums and future developments.
Years ago I believe such a product was essential to aid vBulletin with search engines, and it was... however; technologies have changed drastically with SE's and both vBulletin software itself has changed, and from a standard install I see no major issue with the software today that really tells me to pay another provider to tune the software further, because its not really essential any more. Yes, vBulletin still lacks some basics like friendly URL's and the ability to include the "nofollow" attribute out of the box, but I believe vb4 is certainly working towards being more friendly in some of these instances.
Knowing some of the coming developments from lots of reading here, I have decided to strip VBSEO out of my own forums in preparation to the newer version of vBulletin and run with their standard out of the box solutions. Sure, its painful to have all your URL's re-indexed and lose a little traffic for a short time, but its nothing overall in the scheme off things IMHO.
The more I read here and upon vb.org, I find it will be much easier to travel ahead with less reliance upon outside software and integration, and instead stay as close as possible to an out of the box solution, especially now vb are really stepping things up with content management and listening to users, implementing factors that are just expected from content mangement software of any kind, be it CMS, blogging or forum software.
I am looking forward to the new release and times ahead... and now no more extra fee's to another which I can contribute towards the VBCMS for all of my forums and future developments.
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