Well since Dubz has installed vbSEO I figured I'll try the other route and try out Zoints SEO. There are some differences from what I understand. The biggest difference is Zoints is free and vbSEO is not free. With this I have also added Zoints Thread Tags. You can add tags to each thread you create and it automatically creates a tag cloud. I have gone through some of the options so far. I've done the mod_rewrite so my urls include some of the thread titles instead of that nasty .php?do=thread&f15 stuff. Well, I'll be mainly checking my SEO on this. Right now from May 2nd to June 3rd my Google Analytics says I've gotten 30% from Search Engines on my Traffic Source Overview. My Site is in my sig Free Sports Betting. Lately on google i've been ranking from 1st page to top of 3rd page if you search Free Sports Betting. Let's see what happens the next month and more. -Like Dubz thread do not come in here telling everyone how one is better than the other.
Check out our vBSEO Demo for comparison of feature sets. One of the fundamental aspects of vBSEO, that none of the mod_rewrite hacks available at one time or another has achieved is the following: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/pin-tail-seo-donkey-link-consensus-14029/
Small, two day update. So far so good. I've got one tiny problem with my Zoints Thread Tags but I'm sure we'll get that fixed. Obviously it's early and it's only been two days but let's just throw these 2 interesting stats out there. SINCE MAY 5th.... June 3rd and 4th were 3rd and 4th ranked days based on vistits. June 3rd and 4th were 1st and 2nd ranked days based on page views. This was a big one. 763 and 650 page views those 2 days. The previous high was 450. June 3rd and 4th were my 4th and 5th ranked days based on absolute unique visitors. My site is 8 months old. So far I HOPE this trend continues.
It's been 20 days and so far so good. I did have trouble with the zoints tag cloud but i just turned off the option that was giving me trouble so that's not a big deal. The free mod_rewrite is working great. I created an nba draft contest and my thread is 2nd on google. http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=nba+draft+contest&btnG=Google+Search I think if I keep making great thread titles and keyword phrases that I'll be able to draw in some traffic from that.
Well it's been One Month. At that time you can see my quote above. This last month, 42% of my traffic was Search Engine Traffic. I think 12% is a big increase. Another increase was 100 more visits (not that great) But I did increase in page views by about 800. Again, some increases but that 12% increase was what I was looking for. More people check out my site through search engines.