Thanks guys. The tags that the system (not sure if it was drogonbyte or vbulletin) had was stupid to be honest (they were listed in vbulletin options so I think it was them). That's why I cleared it all out and made my own list of key words and have it selected to only use those keywords (if I'm understanding its use correctly).
Since using only those words most posts won't even end up having tags when before, they did- many tags that were of no relevance to the actual topic. So I think this will have the database even smaller than it was.
I did turn skip_all_errors to false in config.php and didn't see any error messages, does that do the same thing?
I also substituted the skip all errors line for : ini_set("display_errors", true); and didn't get any erros that way either. The page just sits there like it is working, but nothing actually seems to happen.

For the heck of it I just re uploaded the files and tried again. Leaving the content items per page at 250 I get the error
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ......dbtech/dbseo/actions/admin/tagging.php on line 161
If I do less than 250 at a time, it does the same as it was, looks like it is progressing (even refreshes and takes you back to the top if you have scrolled down) but doesn't progress to different threads.

Have you tried a really low value like 10 or even 1? Just to test it, I mean :)


Fillip

I had done 5 with the same result (looking like it is doing something, but doesn't progress). I just now tried 1 and it seems to be doing something even faster, but still no. I say it seems like it is doing something because it flashes "waiting for www.terraforums.com" pretty quickly in the lower corner when with more items it does this slower. It does show "processing complete - proceed" but it doesn't make a difference if I click it or not and stays on the same item that's processing.
You already have an account on my forum so I think you can access the DBT SEO section of it if you want to try it out.
Thanks!

still got db errors sometimes:

I am using Dragon byte for a sitemap.

http://www.scam.com/dbseositemap.php

When I submit to Google I get this error:

Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

How do I fix this?

Just a quick question here. I was a user of vbSEO for years, and when they went defunct, and my website was hacked because of some vulnerable scripts, I uninstalled it and reverted back to the default vBulletin URLS.

Now I am considering purchasing the Dragonbyte version and I'm wondering if the new URLs will match those that the old vbSEO had generated.

Any ideas? Thanks!

That seems to be a problem with your .htaccess file or your web host.

If you still have the vBSEO config file in its original location, DBSEO can import it.

Do be aware the vBSEO importer is Pro-only :)


Fillip

Thanks Filip. I think I might have that. I need to dig around a little. :)

I've found vbseo_all.xml and vbseo_urls.xml on my desktop that I backed up a couple of years ago. Can DBSEO import these? Especially the vbseo_all file - that seems to have my old settings. Please let me know. Thanks!