Questions to VBSEO users

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by korzon, Apr 3, 2006.

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    1. Does it really help increase search engine traffic?
    2. Have you had performance issues with it? I heard it causes VBulletin to take X5 more resources.
     
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  2. ForgottenCreature

    ForgottenCreature Notable Member

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    I'm not a VBSeo user, but I'll state my input...

    1: It will only help increase search engine traffic if you a few sites linking to your community, what is VBSeo without links to the site?
    2: I was reading last night that the VBSeo programmers has optimized the heck out of the software so it doesn't cause any perfomance issues.

    Hope that helps.
     
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    Bonsai_Ryan Peon

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    Ok, I'm not even going to comment on the price thing that was covered in both those links. However, I do have VBSeo along with their Yahoo/Google sitemaps and nofollow sig links (both free) and I have to say that after 3-4 months it made a huge difference in indexed pages in Yahoo/Google. Unfortunately I put everything in at once so I can't tell you just what mod did what. An example: in December before putting in VBSeo I had a paultry 100-200 pages in url for Google, I now have around 6,570. Yahoo actually does (for me) quite a bit better (~9,000). Has it translated into better search engine responses? Yes, especially in Yahoo and MSN. Google seems to be lagging behind a bit but we are certainly higher than we were four months ago.

    To me VBSeo was worth not having to deal with the hassle of rewrites etc, it was just a plug and go. I would much rather work on the content of my site than coding because that's what I really love. However VBSeo shouldn't be looked at as the end-all-be-all of SEO. There are other things you can and should do.

    Another thing that went into my decision to buy VBSeo was the timing. After reading their forums a lot of big boards complained about dropping off of the search engines for a short time after installing VBSeo. Since I am a farily new forum (just over a year old) I figured it would be better to change everything sooner than later.

    Just my .02 :)
     
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    Ive commented on this subject enough.
     
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    Where? Got links? ;)
     
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    You might want to check out this free plugin called vRewrite at vbulletin.org, I've just installed it and it's working pretty good; but I've never used VBSEO before.
     
    saidev, Apr 9, 2006 IP