vbulletin.com don't known/care about SEO?! I was amazed what I found out today , Vbulletin probally don't known or even don't care about SEO and their homepage PageRank... It's seems they even don't want backlinks to their websites... Let me explain you ... view any page of this website for example view this thread or http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ ... Now , go down were is writing vBulletin® v3.6.4, Copyright ©2000-2007, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. scrool over the mouse over that link in order to see link! Now they a look , the link it's directed to : http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1321585-1163318 If you click on the above link you will be redirected to a page from vbulletin.com that also end with something like /XXX...XXXX That's the worst SEO move I ever saw in my life! Can you imagine that this guys are loosing with that redirect url, hundreds of million of links?! I a am not joking... their main page PR it's PR7... they could even have a PR10 , if they will get a site-wide backlinks from every forum from the internet... Or maybe they have a special reason doing this?!
Shawn will get it softgroups, the most important thing to vB is to make sale as that's their main stream of income. The rest is not important to them
I have a vBulletin license and there is no link back to their homepage so that's CJ link is placed by the forum owner.
I dont agree this. If you are using internet for your sales then seo should be important for you. Else you are making a mistake imo.