If DigitalPoint doesnt have VBSEO, then why should I ???

If DigitalPoint doesnt have VBSEO, then why should I ???

Lets face it...DigitalPoint is doin more than well without VBSEO! Why would i even waste my money or Time on buying it.

I'd be interested what some of you have to say on this matter...

-C

 

I would use it, I think larger forums can get away with A TON that smaller forums can't. They HAVE the visitors and ad revenue to not have to force anything. I do wonder what the perks would be for DP to use an seo mod unless they already do....
Don Luttrull

 

If DP doesn't have VBSEO it does not mean it has got everything "without" it. There are still many topics where DP does not appear in search results but the same topic with same content on other forums "with" VBSEO appear first.

Guys at VBSEO are not amateurs, their product VBSEO is great. I am using it without any problem and the results are great.

 

Thanks...

Id be interested to hear from more of you!

 

though i dont use vbseo you should also know that dp is a old forum and that plays a role too

 

if you are expert in coding, html and knowing about php
then
you surely have no need to vBSEO
you can even do better than DP
DP have many do follow links which is not good for SEO howver webmasters share because of these links

 

DP traffic makes up the need for SEO. If your forum is in the same level, then yes you could care less of vbseo.

Or who knows, dp owner may be trying to save a few bucks. I doubt it though

 

I'd say, if you have a small forums trying to get on top, you must use vBSEO.
I am recommending it because it did a magic and traffic to my forums almost quadruple in a month of time.

 

I did that to
by robots and rebuilding url system of vbulletin maually

 

nope !
I have showthread.php?p= disallowed ! however showthread.php?t= is allowed
see my robots file !

I have these urls not indexed so not duplicate
from my webmaster tools account I got only 200 duplicates for around 134,000 indexed urls which are really duplicate thread ... that is 2 members putting a thread twice or accidentally a member duplicate a thread and these are manually dealt with

the issue of showthread.php?p= can now also be overcome by parameter handling in webmaster tools

 

this is great
but how is that done?
htaccess?
can you please tell me the code ?
thanx

I also now thought why showind a link for post count any way
I will just hide post links from visitors by an if conditional
however the htaccess code will be nice !
really if the whole htacess file for DP and forum this will be gr8 !
I want to know optimum cache setting and all in DP htaccess

 

If I am not wrong, that would require huge amount of coding if not using the plugin system and can't be done with only htaccess file.
That's why I'd still recommend vBSEO.
It's not just a URL Rewrite {cURL (Content Relevant URL), is what they call it} system. It also use cannonical URL for showpost pages to keep the damage to minimum.
You can also replace the showthread.php?p= or showpost.php= with those cURLs and disable the post pages in Sitemap Generator to remove the duplicate contents.
And, overall, it also permanently redirects all of them to showthread.php pages (or the showthread cURLs) properly to keep the link juice and traffics.

I am just a satisfied vBSEO user and in no way affiliated with them.

 

so it is a custom vbulletin plugin
I guess it is specially for DP as usual !

 

I've read the vBSEO is extremely overrated. But I don't know...

 

I do not use it on any of my forums and have never seen a need for it.

The problem with all the testimonials and claims about how great it is that did those claiming great benefits from it get those benefits because that used vBSEO, or because there was a coincidental tweak in Google ranking algorithm, or did they around the same time get a couple of good extra backlinks, or did they ... etc etc

 

I think vBSEO is a great add-on and is well worth the money. One forum of mine doesn't use it, and it is extremely well optimized for its keywords and search queries (SERPs #1 and #2) while one of my newer forums does use vBSEO. The vBSEO has provided a nice boost in our crawling, indexing, and SERPs.

To answer your question: If DP doesn't use it, why should you? Keep in mind that DP has a TON of content that many sites/forums don't have. Very few forums are as active as DP is. Content is king (we all know), and consistently changing content is even better (that is, new posts/threads made frequently). This alone probably provides a huge SEO benefit to DP.