Free hacks that do what some vbseo functions do?

[Goodman_2020]

Hi, i was reading lots of posts about vbseo, to decide if yes, or no i buy it (it's very expensive for what it is)
After lots of reading I saw here and there that what vbseo does, free hacks (one + another + another etc.) can do it too. Even if lots of hacks can make a mess, i would need 2 licence of vbseo, and i can't afford even one so... free option is the solution

So after looking at vbseo demo, i would like you to help me to find hacks (free) that can do the following things:


1. Rewrite url exactly like that (for the example) > http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/boats/6-how-can-i-do.html
In clear name of website + forum + name of catgeory or forum + number of the post + keywords from the title of the thread spearate by the "little line" (don't know the word in english). The vBseo demo calsl that: 001 - Hierarchic .html type URLs with content relevant forums and threads

2. 301 Redirect original content

3. Set that "file not found" redirect to the homepage

4. Include domain names in url

5. Log spiders activity in my forum

6. Adsense targeting

7. Rewrite + 301 redirect archives pages

8. Stopwords filtering


That's all, i don't need all the social bookmarking thinks, icons, permalink, linkback, pingback, trackback etc. In fact, i wanted just the rewirte to have a more search engine friendly forum, and it looks nicer even for members, but those options could be intersting too.


I will end with a last questikon that is very important for me:

9. They check (like all others non free hacks) if you have a licence by checking if there is a url associate to a licence of their software right?
But If i can have the same result as vBseo for the 8 points i want, in clear my forum will be SEO.
But what if vbseo think i'm using an illegal vbseo because they think "hey, his forum is SEOed, rewrited the same way vbseo does and does all things that our software do, and we don't have any licence associated to his forum adress, so let's contact his host to say he is using an illegal version and he is a pirate blabla" what if it happens that? because with just the few options i need (the most important is the rewrite that looks like what i've said) nobody can see what hack(s) have been used, even vbseo couldn't know if it's one of illegal version that vbseo, because there is nothing, no copyright, no little icons social things, no permalink etc.
It's an important point because i wouldn't discover waking up a morning that my server is down because somebody sez im using an illegal vbseo whereas i'm not.


Thanks for those who could help me (i know there are nice people who will :D)

[SEOvB]

Hi, i was reading lots of posts about vbseo, to decide if yes, or no i buy it (it's very expensive for what it is)
After lots of reading I saw here and there that what vbseo does, free hacks (one + another + another etc.) can do it too. Even if lots of hacks can make a mess, i would need 2 licence of vbseo, and i can't afford even one so... free option is the solution

So after looking at vbseo demo, i would like you to help me to find hacks (free) that can do the following things:


1. Rewrite url exactly like that (for the example) > http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/boats/6-how-can-i-do.html
In clear name of website + forum + name of catgeory or forum + number of the post + keywords from the title of the thread spearate by the "little line" (don't know the word in english). The vBseo demo calsl that: 001 - Hierarchic .html type URLs with content relevant forums and threads

2. 301 Redirect original content

I do not beleive there are any free ones that cna do this that work with the current version of vBulletin

3. Set that "file not found" redirect to the homepage

Any standard .htaccess can do this, google for it

4. Include domain names in url

Are you talking about when a link is posted, it retreives the external domain name? If so there is one floating around vB.org some where, but im not searching for it

5. Log spiders activity in my forum

Check out Paul M's track guest visits

6. Adsense targeting

Nothing i've seen, though you can target yourself with manual template edits

7. Rewrite + 301 redirect archives pages

Nothing i've seen released at vb.org yet

8. Stopwords filtering

Haven't seen released at vb.org yet


That's all, i don't need all the social bookmarking thinks, icons, permalink, linkback, pingback, trackback etc. In fact, i wanted just the rewirte to have a more search engine friendly forum, and it looks nicer even for members, but those options could be intersting too.


I will end with a last questikon that is very important for me:

9. They check (like all others non free hacks) if you have a licence by checking if there is a url associate to a licence of their software right?
But If i can have the same result as vBseo for the 8 points i want, in clear my forum will be SEO.


You're forum will be far far from SEO'd by just those mods, if you want a truely SEO optimized forum then i suggest either spending the money on vBSEO or nuHIT SEO products.


But what if vbseo think i'm using an illegal vbseo because they think "hey, his forum is SEOed, rewrited the same way vbseo does and does all things that our software do, and we don't have any licence associated to his forum adress, so let's contact his host to say he is using an illegal version and he is a pirate blabla" what if it happens that? because with just the few options i need (the most important is the rewrite that looks like what i've said) nobody can see what hack(s) have been used, even vbseo couldn't know if it's one of illegal version that vbseo, because there is nothing, no copyright, no little icons social things, no permalink etc.
It's an important point because i wouldn't discover waking up a morning that my server is down because somebody sez im using an illegal vbseo whereas i'm not.


No they won't, they'll be able to tell because you'll still have tons of duplicate content and missing tons of features that are important to SEO that vbSEO and even NuHIT SEO offers. Trust me, if you want the SEO advantages of these products, there is no free alternative that will solve them.

[Goodman_2020]

all i need (i mean the most) is the url rewrite.

I saw one one day i think, it's called mod_rewrite but i'm not sure it can do what i want (i mean looks like the url i showed)
I don't want want al lthe SEO stuff but at least url.

Thx for the answer. Hoipe somebody have heard about the other ones.

p.s when you answer at 9 telling "they wont" they wont contact my host or they could make the difference between vbseo illegal and just some seo functions?

[Bradley_Wint]

I think Zoints SEO does that but I am afraid to use it so I am not recommending it but you can still take a look.

[Goodman_2020]

why you don't recommand? i wouldn't like it puts a mess in my forum...

[Bradley_Wint]

Well it was made for an older version of vb...can't remember off hand the exact version, so me running it on 3.7.0 is rather risky because there a numerous changes that have to be made

[Boosted Panda]

I ran vbseo and it was nothing but issues with re-writing images and everything :(