SEOforums.org Advanced SEO META Tags for vBulletin

[MOGmartin]

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INCREASE THE SPIDER AND UPDATE FREQUENCY IN GOOGLE FOR YOUR HOMEPAGE

MAKE YOUR META DESCRIPTION TAG IN GOOGLE, WELL, LOOK COOL!


SUPPORT & UPDATES:
All support is now priority answered at http://seoforums.org/advanced-seo-meta-tags/

Installation:

Download the XML Product, and install it.

to insert the variables into your site you have to manually edit the headinclude file.

You can add any of the following variables:

Total Number of Members: {vb:var numbermembers}
Total Number of Posts: {vb:var totalposts}
Total Number of Threads: {vb:var totalthreads}
Total Number of active users {vb:var numberusers}
Total Number of users currently online {vb:var totalonline}
Newest Member's Username: {vb:var newusername}


For instance, my headinclude looks like this:


<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="Our {vb:var numbermembers} members have posted {vb: var totalposts} posts about SEO. Please welcome {vb:var newusername} our newest member! | SEO Forum | SEO Tools | SEO Blog | SEO Q&A!" />


USAGE LICENSE - COPYRIGHT - LEGAL NOTICE

Usage of this plugin is free, however you can not re-use the code and you CAN NOT REMOVE THE BRANDING FROM THIS PLUGIN.

[MOGmartin]

Reserved Etc

[Da-Vinci]

Cool looking mod thanks, going to try it now.

[TimberFloorAu]

Database error

[Da-Vinci]

Seems to be working ok for me although the description isn't displayed in Google yet, but Isuppose that could take 24 hours or so.

[KissOfDeath]

It works but google isn't showing the variables? it's showing ell the words but not the variables it changed in google within a hour,

heres what i have, any idea why it's not working?

<vb:elseif condition="$show['foruminfo']" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="Our {vb:var numbermembers} members have posted {vb: var totalposts} threads about Free Movie & Video Game Downloads. Please welcome {vb:var newusername} our newest member! | PSP ISO Downloads | Xbox 360 ISO Downloads | Nintendo Wii Iso Downloads | Nintendo DS Rom Downloads" />
<vb:else />

[MOGmartin]

Database error

any chance you can be a little more specific?

[MOGmartin]

Seems to be working ok for me although the description isn't displayed in Google yet, but Isuppose that could take 24 hours or so.

It works but google isn't showing the variables? it's showing ell the words but not the variables it changed in google within a hour,

heres what i have, any idea why it's not working?

<vb:elseif condition="$show['foruminfo']" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="Our {vb:var numbermembers} members have posted {vb: var totalposts} threads about Free Movie & Video Game Downloads. Please welcome {vb:var newusername} our newest member! | PSP ISO Downloads | Xbox 360 ISO Downloads | Nintendo Wii Iso Downloads | Nintendo DS Rom Downloads" />
<vb:else />

guys, it could take two or three weeks to be included in google, if its been a long time since you changed your META descriptions.

if you dont change it regularly, google has no need to check it frequently, thats what this hack really achieves (apart from looking cool).

just check the source code of your live website, if the numbers appear in that, then your good.

[KissOfDeath]

guys, it could take two or three weeks to be included in google, if its been a long time since you changed your META descriptions.

if you dont change it regularly, google has no need to check it frequently, thats what this hack really achieves (apart from looking cool).

just check the source code of your live website, if the numbers appear in that, then your good.

No it changed for me in google straight away, but it;'s not including the varibles, it shows like this is google without the numbers

Our members have posted threads about Free Movie & Video Game Downloads. Please
welcome our newest member! | PSP ISO Downloads | Xbox 360 ISO Downloads

[MOGmartin]

No it changed for me in google straight away, but it;'s not including the varibles, it shows like this is google without the numbers

Our members have posted threads about Free Movie & Video Game Downloads. Please
welcome our newest member! | PSP ISO Downloads | Xbox 360 ISO Downloads

any chance you've got Valters top stats plugin installed? I found out last night that this breaks my one///

if not, can you give me a list of what you do have installed and I will look for some incompatibility somewhere.

[MOGmartin]

also mate, whats your URL?

[KissOfDeath]

any chance you've got Valters top stats plugin installed? I found out last night that this breaks my one///

if not, can you give me a list of what you do have installed and I will look for some incompatibility somewhere.

yes i do have valters top stats,

[MOGmartin]

yes i do have valters top stats,

ok, if you disable it, the extra vars work straight away. I will find out where the problem lies and resolve it.

will probably get that update out on Monday/Tuesday (Im sorting out the my autolink plugin extra features first).

[KissOfDeath]

ok, if you disable it, the extra vars work straight away. I will find out where the problem lies and resolve it.

will probably get that update out on Monday/Tuesday (Im sorting out the my autolink plugin extra features first).

Could 1 possible solution be putting it on the /content page instead of the /forums page?

[oddmud]

In no way am I trying to make this modification look bad, I just want some clarification, as I've read the opposite.


Changing Title Meta Tag can hurt Google Rankings

01 Apr

Posted by Google Success as Google Ranking Tips, SEO Tips

It is no secret that the title meta-tag is one of the most important factors when it comes to on-page search engine optimization. Search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN give quite a bit of importance to the title and description metatags in their algorithms. What many people, however, do not know that the same title tag could actually hurt your rankings, if you try to change it abruptly with a hope to improve your search engine rankings.

If you are currently ranking well with your page title, you should not risk with changing it to improve your rankings. You may often see your current Google rankings go down with such a change. I myself have experienced negative results when I tried to change the title tag for a site which was already ranking well. In fact, Google slammed the site with a -950 penalty.

Your page title is the main entry gate of search engines. Changing the title meta-tag could easily make your Google rankings fluctuate. If you change your title, Google and other search engines will take some time to reflect rankings for new titles. Especially, it would definitely look suspicious in the eyes of Google and other search engines if you have made the changes in the main title and description tags after a long time.

In short, changing the main title of your site, although it’s already ranking well is not a good idea. Instead of changing the page title to try to have improvements on certain keywords, it is better to work on adding content about those keyword phrases on your page, and add links with appropriate anchor text from sites with relevant content. Google always penalized over-optimization. Now it seems as if it frowns normal search engine optimization too. So the best policy is to optimize the website at the time of creation – Do it once, and do it right !

If this article is true, won't this application hurt me?

[MOGmartin]

In no way am I trying to make this modification look bad, I just want some clarification, as I've read the opposite.



If this article is true, won't this application hurt me?


I use this on my meta description, the article you copy and pasted is about the meta title.

two different things.

the meta description is NOT a ranking factor, its use is to increase CTR. With this mod however you can also increase the spider frequency on your site as it has live pricing information.

lots of major sites do this.

[MOGmartin]

Could 1 possible solution be putting it on the /content page instead of the /forums page?

possibly, but I dont have that enabled at all, so if you can test it and let us know that would be great, but I use a modified wp installation for my CMS.

[oddmud]

I use this on my meta description, the article you copy and pasted is about the meta title.

two different things.

the meta description is NOT a ranking factor, its use is to increase CTR. With this mod however you can also increase the spider frequency on your site as it has live pricing information.

lots of major sites do this.

Excellent ok, that makes more sense. :) Thank you.

[MOGmartin]

Excellent ok, that makes more sense. :) Thank you.

no problems,

by the way, there is nothing stopping you from using it in your title tag, I seriously doubt you would get any penalty, but its less useful there anyway.

thanks!

MOGmartin

[Da-Vinci]

Mine is showing now in Google but it's showing like this.

Our members have posted NZB files. Please welcome our newest member! | NZB Forum | Newsgroups | Usenet | Grabit | Newsleecher | Download | Avi | Divx | Xvid ...

I'm not using Advanced Statistics, but I think I did have it installed at one point.

My version is 4.0.2 Patch Level 1

Other Mods installed are.

vBulletin 4.0.2
Advanced Ip Ban Manager 4.0-0.4 alpha 2 Allows advanced management of IP bans.

Age Lock 3.0 Add Forum locking based on age - vBulletin

AMP Auto Tagger 1.0.1 Automaticly Tags Threads with Titles

BBR - Welcome Thread On Register 2.02 Creates a welcome thread when a new user registers

BlackThorn Fake Visitors 4.0.0 http://www.vbulletin-turko.com

BlackThorn Whois Online - AdminCP 4.0.0 http://www.vbulletin-turko.com

Boots' HTTP Referral Tracker 2.0 Allows the tracking of HTTP referrers

Donation System 1.0.0 A system to allow your members to send a donation via PayPal.

Forum Icons 1.0 New option when editing a forum to include an icon.

GeekyDesigns Default Avatar 2.0.2 A default avatar for posts, profiles, etc.

Google Adsense Privacy Policy 4.2.0 Google Adsense Privacy Policy Provided by tutorials4you.co.uk

Guest Tracking 4.0.5 Track Guest Visits

Hasann - Sub-Forum Manager 4.0.0 by Hasann

ibProArcade for vBulletin 2.7.0 ibProArcade - professional Arcade System for vBulletin

IMDB Info Generator 1.1.1 1.1.1 extended & maintained by Melih Buyuk <melihbuyuk AT msn DOT com>

Limit Attachment Downloads 1.3 Limit the amount of attachments your users make.

Log in Log out redirect 1 Log in Log out redirect

MARCO1 Hide All 4.0 Hide links - Attachments for guests and members with user groups permission + New Messages Manager, Coded By MARCO1

MARCO1 Latest Forum Threads 1.0 Get your latest threads in your forumhome, Without any database query! Make your forum very fast

MARCO1 Quick Admin Tools 1.0 Show the important tools from your admincp in a drop-down menu for the forum admin Only

Members who have Posted 4.0.2 Display members who have posted the forum.

Members who have Registered 4.0.1 Display members who have registered on the forum.

Members who have Visited 4.0.0.22 Display members who have visited the forum.

Miserable Users 4.0.1 A way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum.

Post Thank You Hack 7.82 Post Thank You Hack

Quick Auto Image-Resize (Posts & Signature) 1.0.4 A simple way of resizing images by using a maximum width.

Real IP Detection 4.0.4 Allows the forum to use the real ip address if a proxy server is detected.

Referrer in Memberinfo 2.0.0 Created By VisionScripts (www.visionscripts.com)

Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp 1 Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp

SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC2 1.1 SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC1

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 4.0.0 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

Site link for vbb4 1.3 PHPForce.cn Joey Denis

Spiders in WGO 1.0 Show Spiders In Whats Going On Box

Stats to vars 1.0 Stats to variables

Today's Top Thread Starter(s) 4.0.RC1 by Hasann

Usergroup Color Bar 2.0.0

Username Html Markup Everywhere 4.0 RC 2 by Hasann

vB Enterprise Translator 2.4.3 Translates your forum pages to 52 languages using Google translation.

vbStopForumSpam 0.61 This plugin allows you to check new registrations against www.StopForumSpam.com

vBug Tracker Lite 4.0.0 A Bug Tracker for vBulletin.

VSa - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count 5.0 VSa - Advanced Permissions Based on Post Count

VSa - ChatBox 3.1.2 VSa - ChatBox

VSa - Forums Online CountUp 2.0 VSa - Forums Online CountUp

VSa - Moderating Stats 2.0 VSa - Moderating Stats

Who Downloaded 2.0.0 Created By VisionScripts (www.visionscripts.com)

Who Has Read a Thread. 4.0.3 Display members who have read a thread.

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.2.1 Allow users to connect vBulletin Account with Facebook Profile

[AJAX] Live Search 4.0.0 Search without reload pages

[MOGmartin]

thats a shit-tonne of plugins!! :D

I will try and work out either whats causing the issue, or just do a mini rewrite to make it less fallable to interaction with other plugins.

[iguano]

Database error for me too:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT title from template WHERE title IN ('ad_forumhome_afterforums','ad_board_below_whats_ going_on','block_blogentries','block_cmsarticles', 'block_newposts','block_sgdiscussions','block_tagc loud','block_threads','FORUMHOME','forumhome_event ','forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost','forumhome_fo rumbit_level1_post','forumhome_forumbit_level2_nop ost','forumhome_forumbit_level2_post','forumhome_l astpostby','forumhome_loggedinuser','forumhome_mod erator','forumhome_subforumbit_nopost','forumhome_ subforumbit_post','forumhome_subforumseparator_nop ost','forumhome_subforumseparator_post','forumhome _markread_script','forumhome_birthdaybit','tag_clo ud_link','imdb','headinclude');

MySQL Error : Table 'artit_vbull.template' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

[Da-Vinci]

thats a shit-tonne of plugins!! :D

I will try and work out either whats causing the issue, or just do a mini rewrite to make it less fallable to interaction with other plugins.

I know, lol.I'm not using a couple of them so I'll remove the ones that are not in use and see if it makes a difference. I'm wondering if a table has been created with the Advanced Stats plugin that hasn't been dropped when I've run uninstall code?

[MOGmartin]

Database error for me too:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT title from template WHERE title IN ('ad_forumhome_afterforums','ad_board_below_whats_ going_on','block_blogentries','block_cmsarticles', 'block_newposts','block_sgdiscussions','block_tagc loud','block_threads','FORUMHOME','forumhome_event ','forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost','forumhome_fo rumbit_level1_post','forumhome_forumbit_level2_nop ost','forumhome_forumbit_level2_post','forumhome_l astpostby','forumhome_loggedinuser','forumhome_mod erator','forumhome_subforumbit_nopost','forumhome_ subforumbit_post','forumhome_subforumseparator_nop ost','forumhome_subforumseparator_post','forumhome _markread_script','forumhome_birthdaybit','tag_clo ud_link','imdb','headinclude');

MySQL Error : Table 'artit_vbull.template' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

I dont think this is caused by this plugin, did it happen on install?

[iguano]

yes :)

[Da-Vinci]

I'm now down to these plugins.

vBulletin 4.0.2
Advanced Ip Ban Manager 4.0-0.4 alpha 2 Allows advanced management of IP bans.

Age Lock 3.0 Add Forum locking based on age - vBulletin

AMP Auto Tagger 1.0.1 Automaticly Tags Threads with Titles

BlackThorn Whois Online - AdminCP 4.0.0 http://www.vbulletin-turko.com

Boots' HTTP Referral Tracker 2.0 Allows the tracking of HTTP referrers

Donation System 1.0.0 A system to allow your members to send a donation via PayPal.

Forum Icons 1.0 New option when editing a forum to include an icon.

GeekyDesigns Default Avatar 2.0.2 A default avatar for posts, profiles, etc.

Guest Tracking 4.0.5 Track Guest Visits

Hasann - Sub-Forum Manager 4.0.0 by Hasann

ibProArcade for vBulletin 2.7.0 ibProArcade - professional Arcade System for vBulletin

IMDB Info Generator 1.1.1 1.1.1 extended & maintained by Melih Buyuk <melihbuyuk AT msn DOT com>

Log in Log out redirect 1 Log in Log out redirect

MARCO1 Hide All 4.0 Hide links - Attachments for guests and members with user groups permission + New Messages Manager, Coded By MARCO1

MARCO1 Latest Forum Threads 1.0 Get your latest threads in your forumhome, Without any database query! Make your forum very fast

Members who have Posted 4.0.2 Display members who have posted the forum.

Members who have Registered 4.0.1 Display members who have registered on the forum.

Members who have Visited 4.0.0.22 Display members who have visited the forum.

Miserable Users 4.0.1 A way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum.

Post Thank You Hack 7.82 Post Thank You Hack

Quick Auto Image-Resize (Posts & Signature) 1.0.4 A simple way of resizing images by using a maximum width.

Real IP Detection 4.0.4 Allows the forum to use the real ip address if a proxy server is detected.

Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp 1 Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp

SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC2 1.1 SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC1

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 4.0.0 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

Site link for vbb4 1.3 PHPForce.cn Joey Denis

Spiders in WGO 1.0 Show Spiders In Whats Going On Box

Stats to vars 1.0 Stats to variables

Today's Top Thread Starter(s) 4.0.RC1 by Hasann

Usergroup Color Bar 2.0.0

Username Html Markup Everywhere 4.0 RC 2 by Hasann

vB Enterprise Translator 2.4.3 Translates your forum pages to 52 languages using Google translation.

vbStopForumSpam 0.61 This plugin allows you to check new registrations against www.StopForumSpam.com

vBug Tracker Lite 4.0.0 A Bug Tracker for vBulletin.

VSa - ChatBox 3.1.2 VSa - ChatBox

VSa - Forums Online CountUp 2.0 VSa - Forums Online CountUp

VSa - Moderating Stats 2.0 VSa - Moderating Stats

Who Downloaded 2.0.0 Created By VisionScripts (www.visionscripts.com)

Who Has Read a Thread. 4.0.3 Display members who have read a thread.

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.2.1 Allow users to connect vBulletin Account with Facebook Profile

[AJAX] Live Search 4.0.0 Search without reload pages

[MOGmartin]

I'm now down to these plugins.

vBulletin 4.0.2
Advanced Ip Ban Manager 4.0-0.4 alpha 2 Allows advanced management of IP bans.

Age Lock 3.0 Add Forum locking based on age - vBulletin

AMP Auto Tagger 1.0.1 Automaticly Tags Threads with Titles

BlackThorn Whois Online - AdminCP 4.0.0 http://www.vbulletin-turko.com

Boots' HTTP Referral Tracker 2.0 Allows the tracking of HTTP referrers

Donation System 1.0.0 A system to allow your members to send a donation via PayPal.

Forum Icons 1.0 New option when editing a forum to include an icon.

GeekyDesigns Default Avatar 2.0.2 A default avatar for posts, profiles, etc.

Guest Tracking 4.0.5 Track Guest Visits

Hasann - Sub-Forum Manager 4.0.0 by Hasann

ibProArcade for vBulletin 2.7.0 ibProArcade - professional Arcade System for vBulletin

IMDB Info Generator 1.1.1 1.1.1 extended & maintained by Melih Buyuk <melihbuyuk AT msn DOT com>

Log in Log out redirect 1 Log in Log out redirect

MARCO1 Hide All 4.0 Hide links - Attachments for guests and members with user groups permission + New Messages Manager, Coded By MARCO1

MARCO1 Latest Forum Threads 1.0 Get your latest threads in your forumhome, Without any database query! Make your forum very fast

Members who have Posted 4.0.2 Display members who have posted the forum.

Members who have Registered 4.0.1 Display members who have registered on the forum.

Members who have Visited 4.0.0.22 Display members who have visited the forum.

Miserable Users 4.0.1 A way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum.

Post Thank You Hack 7.82 Post Thank You Hack

Quick Auto Image-Resize (Posts & Signature) 1.0.4 A simple way of resizing images by using a maximum width.

Real IP Detection 4.0.4 Allows the forum to use the real ip address if a proxy server is detected.

Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp 1 Send message to Admin if fail to login to admincp

SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC2 1.1 SEOforums.org Fuzzy SEO Booster RC1

Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 4.0.0 Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

Site link for vbb4 1.3 PHPForce.cn Joey Denis

Spiders in WGO 1.0 Show Spiders In Whats Going On Box

Stats to vars 1.0 Stats to variables

Today's Top Thread Starter(s) 4.0.RC1 by Hasann

Usergroup Color Bar 2.0.0

Username Html Markup Everywhere 4.0 RC 2 by Hasann

vB Enterprise Translator 2.4.3 Translates your forum pages to 52 languages using Google translation.

vbStopForumSpam 0.61 This plugin allows you to check new registrations against www.StopForumSpam.com

vBug Tracker Lite 4.0.0 A Bug Tracker for vBulletin.

VSa - ChatBox 3.1.2 VSa - ChatBox

VSa - Forums Online CountUp 2.0 VSa - Forums Online CountUp

VSa - Moderating Stats 2.0 VSa - Moderating Stats

Who Downloaded 2.0.0 Created By VisionScripts (www.visionscripts.com)

Who Has Read a Thread. 4.0.3 Display members who have read a thread.

Yay! Another Facebook Bridge 3.2.1 Allow users to connect vBulletin Account with Facebook Profile

[AJAX] Live Search 4.0.0 Search without reload pages


Im just working on the solution, whats your boards URL please mate?

[MOGmartin]

yes :)

I'll look into it, and get a re-release out by Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning mate,

thanks for flagging the issue

[nekiw]

should I just append the code to the headinclude or should I replace new code with this:
<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw foruminfo.title_clean}, {vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > 1">{vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}-</vb:if>{vb:raw foruminfo.description_clean}" />

[Da-Vinci]

Im just working on the solution, whats your boards URL please mate?

http://www.nzb-forum.com

[MOGmartin]

should I just append the code to the headinclude or should I replace new code with this:
<meta name="keywords" content="{vb:raw foruminfo.title_clean}, {vb:raw vboptions.keywords}" />
<meta name="description" content="<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > 1">{vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}-</vb:if>{vb:raw foruminfo.description_clean}" />

you should replace the code currently in your headinclude file, as per the instructions - Im not sure what you are getting at with the code snippet above, just stick to whats in the instructions, get it working, then go from there.

thanks!

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

NEW version released with slight bug fixes, please reinstall.

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

the GOLD versions of all my plugins are now available at:
http://seoforums.org/seo-plugins/

Whats the difference between the gold ones, and the free ones here on vb.org?

1) they are branding free
2) fully supported in a private members area at seoforums.org
3) all new feature development is exclusively for the paid versions, the free versions will now get bug fixes, unless something is deemed absolutely necessary.
4) personalised seo advice from me, if you want it that is!

Best regards


MOGmartin

[Majora]

there's a bug.
When you have vbseo + vbseo sitemap 2.6 installed and visit www.yourdomain.com/vbseo_sitemap/ you will get the following error: Warnung: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 62)
and you can't login to vbseo_sitemap Panel.

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/warning-cannot-modify-header-information-16096/

[MOGmartin]

there's a bug.
When you have vbseo + vbseo sitemap 2.6 installed and visit www.yourdomain.com/vbseo_sitemap/ you will get the following error: Warnung: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 62)
and you can't login to vbseo_sitemap Panel.

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/warning-cannot-modify-header-information-16096/

more of a bug with the vbSEO sitemaps plugin it would appear to me, especially given their fix for it is on their side:



please try to modify your vbseo_sitemap/index.php file:

FIND:

PHP Code:
chdir('../');

ADD BELOW:

PHP Code:
$globaltemplates = $phrasegroups = $specialtemplates = array();


I will see if there is anything I can to to avoid this conflict, but it looks like its their product that causes this (hence why they released a bugfix, several years ago!)

[KissOfDeath]

there's a bug.
When you have vbseo + vbseo sitemap 2.6 installed and visit www.yourdomain.com/vbseo_sitemap/ you will get the following error: Warnung: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 62)
and you can't login to vbseo_sitemap Panel.

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/warning-cannot-modify-header-information-16096/

Which version of vbulletin are you on?
i'm on vb4.0.2 & sitemap 2.6 and i don't get any error

[MOGmartin]

FYI: Im on 4.0.2 and sitemap 2.5, with no errors...

[KissOfDeath]

FYI: Im on 4.0.2 and sitemap 2.5, with no errors...

Does 2.5 still work on vb4? i thought i read somewhere that it didn't thats why they released the 2.6 beta? i could be mistaken but you should check that it's still creating new sitemaps since you upgraded

[djbaxter]

more of a bug with the vbSEO sitemaps plugin it would appear to me, especially given their fix for it is on their side:

I will see if there is anything I can to to avoid this conflict, but it looks like its their product that causes this (hence why they released a bugfix, several years ago!)

The cited thread is for vBSEO Sitemap version 2.0, nor for 2.6, which is what he is using. Anything less than 2.6 is not compatible with vBulletin 4.x.

[MOGmartin]

Does 2.5 still work on vb4? i thought i read somewhere that it didn't thats why they released the 2.6 beta? i could be mistaken but you should check that it's still creating new sitemaps since you upgraded

The cited thread is for vBSEO Sitemap version 2.0, nor for 2.6, which is what he is using. Anything less than 2.6 is not compatible with vBulletin 4.x.

I will check what Im running now, although I thought it was 2.5

[MOGmartin]

sorry - Im on 2.6 beta 1

but mine works fine....

[MOGmartin]

New version released people, please download and overwrite.

a few bug fixes, including improved compatibility with other peoples scripts.

cheers

MOGmartin

[mitbar]

Where do i go to find the headerincludes file to edit? sorry for the newb question.

[KissOfDeath]

Where do i go to find the headerincludes file to edit? sorry for the newb question.

AdminCP>Styles & Semplates>Style Manager
CLick edit templates on the dropdown menue of which ever style you are using
, scroll down to headerincludes

[MOGmartin]

AdminCP>Styles & Semplates>Style Manager
CLick edit templates on the dropdown menue of which ever style you are using
, scroll down to headerincludes

thanks for chipping in with that kissofdeath, much appreciated,

to the OP, what he said!!

cheers

MOGmartin

[Majora]

I have added the $globaltemplates = $phrasegroups = $specialtemplates = array(); to vbseo_sitemap/index.php but it doens't work!

Warnung: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 39)

Warnung: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:4482) in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/index.php (Zeile 41)

When i disable "Stats to vars" it works!

vbulletin 4.0.2 + vbseo Sitemap 2.6 beta 1

[KissOfDeath]

Yes i get the same error on my sitemap reports page, but it does no seem to be affecting anything, the sitemap still generate fine and the reports all look normal

I didn't edit any other templates except the header include one

[mitbar]

How do we know this is working after install?

[MOGmartin]

by viewing the source code of your homepage.

you have remembered to update your meta description right?

[KissOfDeath]

Just noticed that site maps reports can not be viewed any more

I have 2.6 beta installed

[dosadno]

How do I uninstall this hack?

[MOGmartin]

same way as you uninstall any hack... this one is no different!

[anthony parsons]

Hi MogMartin,

Considering I have been around online marketing since 95, and I have reviewed your plugins, some of which are really outstanding to be blunt, I would actually have to advise people that this is more destructive than helpful to a websites SEO factor, especially the homepage, which is what you have designed this for.

Meta keywords is a totally useless tag which you should just remove out of the head section, however; the description tag actually still has bearing from Google for semantic connectivity purposes... simply put, it actually does affect your ranked position if it matches your title, page and link factors semantically. Using this mod vs. manually writing your homepage title and description, is really destructive.

If its all just about COOL, I get that... it does do that. But from what you seem to selling, being the SEO direction, then this is destructive by taking up the very limited characters in which Google will use to assist ranking. It doesn't do a great deal, but it can mean the difference between position 5 and position 1 if all elements are in sync.

Just my two cents on this specific mod of yours, and to provide those not in the know about online marketing a further perspective. Again, some really excellent plugins from you, and this is great if COOL is what you want, but then SEO should not be used in conjunction with it IMHO, as this will do more damage to a homepage's overall SEO strategy than good.

[Da-Vinci]

I'm no SEO expert and my forum is currently growing quite rapidly after being online for less than 4 months it is experiencing around 20 + registrations per day (The most in one day being 47), all I will say is that my site seems to getting more and more pages listed in the first of Google daily, now I don't know whether this is down to this plugin or whether it's simply a fluke but I would like to know either way.

I'm not asking for any sort of refund as I have no complaints, but if by removing this, my forum could possibly experience even better listings, and growth than it is currently, then I'm all for it.

I'd just like some clarity, could MOGmartin & anthony parsins please explain the argumnets for and against?

[anthony parsons]

Hi Da-Vinci, you are talking about a new forum, so it is impossible to measure anything with accuracy in a new forum. I doubt that this plugin has much to do with your current growth, and I believe even the developer should tell you this. Now if you said you added the developers long tail traffic plugin, that would be a different story. Long tail traffic is the only thing VB out of the box is really missing nowadays. A meta tag plugin really has nothing to do with your daily registrations. VB4 out of the box already is dynamically adding the first posts content into the meta description, which even that, is still not necessary, as Google WILL use the most relevant snippet from page information over the meta description. Google will use the meta description for listings IF a more precise snippet cannot be formed.

This plugin does produce a pretty description meta tag, that's all it does. It will not affect major placement of page rankings, if that is what you are thinking. It will literally only ever mean the difference between 1,2 maybe 3 positions, if that, and only ever under very specific circumstances. There is no debate on what the meta description does nowadays, just read any industry experts blog, website, ask them, etc. Go ask Aaron Wall on his forum, as Aaron is pretty much the global industry leader now for everything online marketing related. Pretty, yes... rankings, no.

[Sworm]

Is it vbseo (http://www.vbseo.com)compatible?

[cvn]

Both the number of posts and number of members generated for the meta description are higher than those indicated in the forums WGO. Please let me know how to fix that!

More importantly, I use CMS as my homepage, so I badly need this mod to work with CMS. At this moment, the figures don't appear, only the text does, in the search results. (of course I still can see those figures when view the code of my FORUM HOME).

Thanks so much!

[MOGmartin]

firstly - sorry for the late reply to your message anthony, only just seen it crop up in a google news alert...

Hi MogMartin,

Considering I have been around online marketing since 95, and I have reviewed your plugins, some of which are really outstanding to be blunt, I would actually have to advise people that this is more destructive than helpful to a websites SEO factor, especially the homepage, which is what you have designed this for.

Meta keywords is a totally useless tag which you should just remove out of the head section, however; the description tag actually still has bearing from Google for semantic connectivity purposes... simply put, it actually does affect your ranked position if it matches your title, page and link factors semantically. Using this mod vs. manually writing your homepage title and description, is really destructive.

Im not suggesting that you change your meta description to a bunch of numbers, Im purely suggesting that by having frequently updating value's google is spidering the page more often, I have tested this on several dozen websites using both wordpress and vbulletin, and that behaviour has been replicated on every test. There is no need to NOT include relevant text, but with this plugin you can additionally have values WITHIN the text that are updated frequently, hence increasing spider activity.

If its all just about COOL, I get that... it does do that. But from what you seem to selling, being the SEO direction, then this is destructive by taking up the very limited characters in which Google will use to assist ranking. It doesn't do a great deal, but it can mean the difference between position 5 and position 1 if all elements are in sync.

Just my two cents on this specific mod of yours, and to provide those not in the know about online marketing a further perspective. Again, some really excellent plugins from you, and this is great if COOL is what you want, but then SEO should not be used in conjunction with it IMHO, as this will do more damage to a homepage's overall SEO strategy than good.

I agree that it does take up some valuable space in the meta description tag, BUT sacrificing say 6 or 10 characters to increase spider activity is to me at least, an acceptable loss.

thanks

MOGmartin

[MOGmartin]

Is it vbseo (http://www.vbseo.com)compatible?

yes. totally.

MOG

[MOGmartin]

Both the number of posts and number of members generated for the meta description are higher than those indicated in the forums WGO. Please let me know how to fix that!

More importantly, I use CMS as my homepage, so I badly need this mod to work with CMS. At this moment, the figures don't appear, only the text does, in the search results. (of course I still can see those figures when view the code of my FORUM HOME).

Thanks so much!

the field it is using includes both moderated posts, threads and users (and banned ones) that dont appear in the WGO box.

as for the CMS issue, Im not currently using it, as I built a wp skin instead that mimics my forum skin, as I found wp to be far more flexible for my needs.

I will do a test install and get it working on the CMS pages as well though, and get that version out in the next week or two.

thanks!

MOG

[cvn]

MOG, thank you very much! We're waiting for your good news!

[D19RNY]

I've just purchased the gold and was wondering if i needed todo the whole header include thing, because i cant see the product in settings

[Manoel J?nior]

Not working 4.0.6

[BBF]

Not working 4.0.6

and 4.0.5 too

[Nomar86]

very cool, reserving

[XiTCLUB]

i got MySql Database error on my forum

[Cybeth]

do not buy http://seoforums.org. The money is gone.

[8thos]

do not buy http://seoforums.org. The money is gone.What?

[luan7749]

do not buy http://seoforums.org. The money is gone.
Why did you say that ? Show me ? I think this forum is good about SEO.

[Cybeth]

I have a branding free by PayPal bought and received only a beta.

MOGmartin should be off here.

The people fooled and ripped off through PayPal.

[luan7749]

INSTALLED ! Working good for 4.0.7 and Sitemap 2.6 Beta :D
Thank bro.

[luan7749]

I have a branding free by PayPal bought and received only a beta.

MOGmartin should be off here.

The people fooled and ripped off through PayPal.
I think He's making Final version :D. Let's try beta version while waiting.

[onehost]

no updates?

move to graveyard....

[pacman24]

database error 4.1.2

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT title from template WHERE title IN ('ad_showthread_firstpost_start','ad_showthread_fi rstpost_sig','ad_thread_first_post_content','ad_th read_last_post_content','forumdisplay_loggedinuser ','forumrules','im_aim','im_icq','im_msn','im_yaho o','im_skype','postbit','postbit_wrapper','postbit _attachment','postbit_attachmentimage','postbit_at tachmentthumbnail','postbit_attachmentmoderated',' postbit_deleted','postbit_ignore','postbit_ignore_ global','postbit_ip','postbit_onlinestatus','postb it_reputation','bbcode_code','bbcode_html','bbcode _php','bbcode_quote','bbcode_video','SHOWTHREAD',' showthread_list','showthread_similarthreadbit','sh owthread_similarthreads','showthread_quickreply',' showthread_bookmarksite','tagbit','tagbit_wrapper' ,'polloptions_table','polloption','polloption_mult iple','pollresults_table','pollresult','threadadmi n_imod_menu_post','editor_clientscript','editor_js options_font','editor_jsoptions_size','editor_tool bar_colors','editor_toolbar_fontname','editor_tool bar_fontsize','facebook_publishcheckbox','facebook _likebutton','f_seo_plugin_home','f_seo_plugin_for umdisplay','f_seo_plugin_thread','headinclude');

MySQL Error : Table 'pacman24_cvpiorgforum.template' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, March 24th 2011 @ 08:20:40 AM
Error Date : Thursday, March 24th 2011 @ 08:20:40 AM
Script : http://www.cvpi.org/forums/showthread.php?162-new-features&p=1187
Referrer : http://www.cvpi.org/forums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=11
IP Address : 71.193.245.73
Username : Starsky
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.52

[pacman24]

i managed to make it work.... i duplicated the template table in phpMyAdmin and changed the name of the copy from "forum_template" to "forum.template"

[fabiocesar]

download error from gold version on seoforums.org

[dang3rzon3]

gold version doesn't work

[strudinox]

I'm running this on VB 4.1.3. There seems to be an issue with this mod that affects the Vbulletin Mobile Suite. Once I enabled the plugin, when the mobile application is accessed the connection times out, and you get a connection error. When I disable this mod, the mobile applications work again.

How would this mod interfere with the the ability for the mobile application to connect?

[princesspepper]

Your plugin store is not working on your website :)

[PSimmo]

I have this plugin installed but had to disable it due to it causing the following error.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 39

Once it was disabled the error went away

[islamway]

not working with 4.1.5 :(

www.elaroba.com

[FReeSTER]

Guys How Do I change the Font Color? is black and my style is dark impossible to see

thansk

[Pure Dope]

wouldnt it be smarter to put more relevant info in the description? like maybe the first few lines of the post?