vbSEO -- is it worth it?

I'm going to launch my vbulletin forum by the start of next month, and I'm considering purchasing/running vbSEO in conjunction with it. I've done my fair share of reading and research, and I'd like opinions on the product from outside their respective forums.

Some questions on my mind about vbSEO:

* Is it worth using the product if your forum is going to be brand new? I have read firsthand accounts of Google deindexing/penalizing sites which utilize vbSEO, which I believe could be due to "overSEOing" a new site. Is this a common issue that's just a temporary hassle?

* vbSEO is known to suck up a lot of CPU Usage -- I'm currently on a shared hosting plan with HostGator...for an initially small forum, should I be okay? If I were to run vbSEO, at what rough benchmark (# of visitors, # of posts, etc) should I consider moving on to a dedicated server?

Thank you for your responses in advance! I plan on running a forum that'll have my own original content targeted towards a very specific target audience (around 300,000 people I know involved in this niche), but I'd like to use vbSEO in the hopes of bringing in traffic from outside sources.

 

vbseo is a great product and this question has been asked a million times.
I suggest you search around and view the big threads, you'll get your views there, but I'll say this.. I won't start a new vB forum without vbseo, and I suggest it to all my clients that are serious about SE traffic.

 

Check out www.theadminzone.com, they have lots of discussions about this, and a few articles written too.

 

If you are in sharing hosting then I don't even reccomend you to install vBulletin in first place. It sucks a lot of system resources.

But in case you are interested, vBulletin is search engine friendly for itself.

 

My forum with VBSEO is running on godaddy shared hosting env. and seems ok. I just reach 1000 visitors a day yesterday..

For new forum I would start with shared environment since it is cost less and if one day your shared server can't handle the load, congregation, you should have enough money for your to move to a expensive dedicated environment but I won't see that will happen within 2 years and I don't if your forum can survive that long..

 

for sure it's worth it

 

If you have the money its a great product. The support is decent. If you are low on the funds try the others out there such as zoints. Keep in mind its not a good idea to start with one and move to another later, so if you really want to vbseo your better off buying it from the start.

Mark

 

I would like to know how difficult it is to installed vbseo?

 

I don't know how good vbSEO is even though I've had it on my site for a year now...however, I have noticed it is a pain at times when it comes to configuring certain things in the Admin panel - and it does suck up a lot of space. It's still a great product and obviously uber SEO-friendly.

 

It's a piece of cake.

Less than 5 minutes.

 

For sure. $150 is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Anything that makes you more SEO friendly is great in my books.

If I started a new forum I'd add it again.