FYI: Ive located the bug with this, the user is searching for a query that ends in a trailing slash (weird, and very unusual)

this is a circumstance I never considered, but a release tomorrow will cover that bug.

as the keywords are specific to a single thread in a lot of cases this wouldnt really work to be honest.

you would have to build a lot of logic to determine what tag it was meant to link to, then that tag page would get the SEO benefit.

I dont know about you, but Ive never seen tag pages pop up in the SERPs much.

I have the same problem and I just installed the update.

does the search term you are clicking through from contain a slash?

yes. It seems you have not escaped the slashes properly.


Here is the search, http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...1,100\&spell=1

yep, its a bug I was made aware of for the first time yesterday, I will release a patch upgrade by Monday mate.

thanks for flagging it though, I genuinely hadn't ever used a search term with a slash in it ;)

Ok thanks, the sooner the better because its effecting any pages ppl search with a slash and I don't want to lose page position and have google replace them with db error pages. :\

there is no need to worry about that, because the page still exists fine, its just when it has a slash in the refferer url...

ie, googlebot will still load the page correctly, but I am re-releasing a fix on this ASAP!

thanks

MOGMartin

can you please give an example of this? is it the tag cloud over SEOFORUMS.ORG or what?
I don't see any "long tail phrases" in that tag cloud..

sure, check out the first link in the description to my blog post about it, there are examples, and snapshots of my organic traffic as well.

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

Seems like a nice app, but I'm not intrested in giving you more backlinks. Thanks anyway.

which is precisely why I released the gold version, its brand free, see my post immediately above yours,

best regards

MOGmartin

New version released, improved user control panel, easier navigation, and a few bug fixes.

Please download and re-install.

GOLD VERSION OWNERS
Please download from the priority support forums at http://seoforums.org

INTERESTED IN GOING GOLD?

I've had another go at this, i thought I'd try with 10 keywords instead of 25 and it seems to be working better without google penalising me,

Please let me know how much you are charging for the gold version and a paypal email address to pay it to, i removed your branding myself so i don't need to download another. it seems to be working so i'll just give you the money for your work

thanks for the great honesty there - a credit to vb.org!

I have PM'd you the details,

cheers

MOG

Does it work for 4.0.0?

yep it does.

Just paid for the Gold version and installed it from the download link which was emailed.

Visitors found this page by searching for:
Nobody landed on this page from a search engine, yet!
SEO Blog <--- but why is your blog linked here as its BRAND FREE ...

i am not registering to your page, so please explain to me why i have bought an gold version with branding ?

Why its not fixed???

Set it to "footer" links in the adminCP, they will disappear. its a bug...

BUT - it would have been answered a lot quicker over at http://seoforums.org

Hi
in yours forum
What's plugin,give "Visitors found this page by searching for" ?

Thx this worked, a notice on the download file or an included readme.txt would help too

not that i dont want your link here, but as i bought it brand free, i was frustrated that it was actually branded

I'm not noticing a large increase in SE Traffic, and it's been a month. I can see the search terms coming through, and I believe it's helped a few people get to the site. But who's to say they wouldn't have got there by those same search terms anyways.

Maybe it's the "position on google" feature that creates a red flag at google?

Btw 25 pounds is a bit steep for the plugin if you ask me.

The plugin seems to work great, but I do have a question. What is the point of all this if you let's say rank #1 or #2 for certain key phrases for a certain thread? Maybe I should keep the less popular ones and ban the ones that already gave me a good ranking...just a thought to get more traffic.

?25 is nothing, this has done a lot more for me than VBSEO (Which has done nothing so far) and they charge $149 for that

I run a forum without any sort of ads. I'm just saying it is a bit much for me, since the forums don't make me any money. I'll see the effect in a few weeks.

If you have pages open to guest viewing, i'd recommend turning adds on for guests only, i do this on my forums and although i don't make a lot of money off it, it still covers my server costs and that's all i'm aiming for.

Er even make a little money to boost your forums features with premium add ons like this one, their are a few really good premium mods available that make a big difference

thanks.
Work for me

You are not using vBESO properly then. My traffic has doubled and my google income has tripled in 2 months since installing vBSEO.

Are you using vb4?

if you look at the Feature list for vb4 compared to the old vb3 one (that actually did do some benefit) all it does for vb4 if rewrite the names, which comes as a free feature in vb4 now anyway, and could have been done for free with your .htaccess file on vb3 anyway

I could see you having better results with vb3, but theirs not way it is helping you on vb4, it has a whole list of control panel features that don't work, of course they don't tell you this when you are filling in your credit card details, and when you ask why the features don't work, first they tell you that it must be one of the plug-ins you are using, when i uninstall every plugin i have and then also check the meta data of vbulletin.com who do not use any plugins at all, they tell you it's still a release candidate and should not be used on any forum and the problems are down to vbulletin releasing buggy forum software

http://www.vbseo.com/f2/hidden-data-...eywords-42086/

VB4 has most of the features you were paying for in vbseo for vb3 for free, the only problem is is that vb4 is using to any characters for the meta description and to many key words and their are no options to reduce it, even if you have vbseo installed it will not overwrite the vbulletin meta settings and even when you put a limit on the number of character used in meta tags in your vbseo cpanel it is ignores and it continues to to use the first 450 characters of the first post (if their are that many characters in the first post) as the description, and used the first 49 words of the post as keywords

That's not what you were told.

You were told this:
Later, it was suggested that you contact the mod author or vbulletin for support if you wanted the .. fluff, for want of a better word, in your posts from showing.

As I tried to tell you, vBSEO can't take a pile of jumbled content + bbcode + "YOU CANT SEE THIS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FIRST" messages and create a beautiful piece of descriptive text for a meta description when you tell it "Make a meta description out of the first x words of my post".

Exactly my point, vbseo is supposed to change your meta tags and give you the option to limit the amount of characters used

I know the hidden text is down to the mod and needs to be resolved by the author the hidden text isn't my issue my issue anymore is the fact that vbseo will not overwrite the existing vbulletin metatags which is exactly what it is supposed to do and where most of the seo comes from, this would easily be solved by vbseo if the limit on characters worked, if your on vb4 and don;t belive me view your source code of a page with and without vseo enables and you'll see what i mean

care to mention them?

Not sure if this plugin is really that great for larger forums. I have 51 pages of keywords now and most are fairly bad (ie. questions)

Suggestion:
-possibility to limit the number of words. If I set this to 3, then if somebody searches 'cat' then it will be added to the tags, same thing if they search 'cat not eating', but not 'what to do if my cat is not eating'

Depends what you class as a larger forum, my stats are:

Threads, 26,280
Posts 58,398
Members 50,874

And at this moment i have 1937 pages of keywords

do you have a Google analytics's account? you can see if you have any changes their, i'm not sure 3 keywords will do much for you, the default is 25, i have mine set at 10

Suggestion:
-improve ban filter
Often I find myself wanting to ban words, which are contained in other words.
Example: if I ban 'ass' it would also ban 'assassination' which I don't want. obviously it should still ban other combinations like 'nice ass'