Long urls are not a problem because you can still use the old ones.And search engines like static (html) urls not active

To be honest... I used to feel 100% the same way. If somebody pulls my old posts from the various vBulletin communities they might even find a quote or two from me saying that I'll never under any circumstances used closed code that I can't at least view.

But then I gave in to the Dark Side and installed vBSEO on my largest public site. I wasn't expecting miraculous results but the results I am getting so far are encouraging and I would even say surprising. I may have... uh... been.... ummm... wrong in the past.

Yea... I saw a huge spike in income on my forum... and my forum is rather small. (I get consistantly around 500 uniques a day from my little gaming site)

My concern is that vBSEO could turn around at any time and pull my use of the script. Effectively crippling my site - but I guess you have that issue with any script. I felt the same way myself about the closed script previously but I'm inclined to say - what the hell.

You were wrong Kevin? I refuse to believe it! :D

True that SE's like static URL's - but surely there will come a point where they evolve and dynamic will become just as acceptable?

Kerry, why do you feel it would be more problematic than helpful?

I started using it this fall, and it made quite a difference to the site. I went from having almost nothing indexed, to nothing indexed, to everything indexed.

It is a factor, but not the only one... if you want it, go for it. But, remember that there are other actions (even in combination with) that will be worthwhile, too.

So true

I'm all ears. ;)

Ive been focusing on SEO for the past few weeks. Without touching mod_rewrite - which google has said is no longer necessary ( dynamic urls - those ? and % in your urls) no longer phase the googlebot - The Slurp spider can not read 301 redirects properly, and often times this will cause your rankings in yahoo to drop - so yeah... installing the mod CAN affect your rankings. anyway, without touching mod-rewrite, these are the increases I have seen with google alone.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

That is the crawl rate by google.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/
KB downloaded.

I have also seen an increase in guests from searches - I have seen a dramatic increase in search term relevancy and all this with out an SEO product beyond Zoints Tags.

What did I do? I optimized my Title tag, my meta description and keywords, I made sure all my images had relevant alt tags, and I went forum to forum re-writing their descriptions, making them more descriptive - I thought like someone should think - like a searcher, not as an admin.

I am anticipating even higher jumps over the next 6 months as I produce more content on the front end. The forum will always take care of its self if it is active.

Just my 2 cents.

I use vBSEO in one of the boards i Admin, but I wouldnt be buying for the rest of the boards until a branding free option is available. Wich is... never. They will never release such version, they used to say "in the near future" since august, now they just say "its being taked into consideration for the next full release"

bleh

That is incorrect. Please point to where that was said by a vBSEO staff member.

It is still planned, as it has been for a long time. It will be available once the new "member area" is online.