Should I get VBSEO?
 

Do you guys think I should rack out the 150 and get VBSEO. I really want static urls(.html ones) and don't know what other commercial SEO for vbulletin to get.

Please tell me your experience with it.

there is no other alternative .. go for it

you can't loose

i just got it...def. a good buy!

the price is worth it, do it

Zoints is not a viable alternative ?

@ The OP...

No I don't think you should splash out for it. There is not enough evidence so far to conclusively prove that VBSEO is a benefit for the price. Secondly, if in the near future Google and others decide it is playing the system too much then you are out in the cold.

Regards,

Joel

I don't think zoints is an alternative to vBSEO. Because the last time i checked they still had duplicate contents problems and also they still didn't work with nearly all modifications.

There are tons of vBSEO success stories around if you want to check. Here are couple success stories you may want to read http://www.vbseo.com/f55/how-did-vbs...ury-car-11674/
http://www.vbseo.com/f55/fastest-way...s-story-11660/

Also as i said there are tons fo that is not mentioned over there.

There is absolutly no proof that any kind of action Google will take agains vBSEO because vBSEO only uses whitehat seo options which is allowed and advised by all major search engines. If they decided to forbid whitehat seo tactics in anyday , all sites have to take out their seo optimizations.

if it is a small forum it might not be worth it...if it is large (or you plan it to be large) than just get it. you can just think of it as part of the price of vbulletin

If they offered a branding free option I would get it, but they don't :/

It looks really good, their coming out with the GOLD Version in less than a week from now.

The thread author was looking for a commercial option. Zoints is not commercial...

It pays for my car, and a good majority of my mortgage. From one forum.

Prior to vbseo, my forum income barely covered my gas for the week.

IMO, I'll never run another forum without it. It paid for itself in just a couple hours.

+ it increased our pages in google to like 57k and increased our referrals from 3 to like 25%

- i had to upgrade our server because vbseo was slowing it down

I wish I hadn't had those adsense click spikes after installing vBSEO back when it first came out.. I'd LOVE to be harnessing the power of vBSEO like you are Brian. :)

I would recommend VBSEO as well, although there is an alternative as well ZOINTS SEO...

Zoints Seo is better haha because it is forever free :)

I had over 50,000 posts on my site and was unranked in google. I added vbseo and within a month was ranked top 1000. I am at 100,000 posts now and for my main keywords I rank in the top 20 and still working on getting higher. VBSEO is 100% worth the money, it isn't fake and their are hundreds of success stories. Now it won't replace bad content or no content, but if you have it, it does wonders.

I also agree that it without a doubt is the only, and I mean only feasible thing for the vast majority of people looking for SEO for their forum.

I personally went from double digit revenues to almost 4 digit revenues in a very short amount of time from the traffic that it was driving me. Pays my rent every month, plus site costs, plus all the stuff I give away.

Reading the first post, i am not sure if he is interested in SEO at all. All he is asking for is static URL's.

With VBSEO free sitemap generator https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=sitemap you can create a precise sitemap and upload it to Google + excluding everything else in robots.txt. What else is needed ??

The only advantage I can see the VBSEO package offers besides this are static URL's with content, however I believe this advantage is rather small anyway...

Have I missed something ?

You have indeed. :)

vBSEO provides lots more than just CRU (Content Relevant URLs).

For one, it has an internal HTML cleaner that removes comments from your html, making pages smaller, filesize-wise.

For another, it consolidates the links to your threads/posts etc, by using ONE LINK, rather than the multiple links to the same thing that vBulletin comes with by default. This concentrates PageRank to that URL, rather than spreading it across the multiple URLs.

For yet another, it can automatically define image height= and width= attributes. This makes pages load faster, as your browser knows how to place the images.

There is a lot more that vBSEO can do.. perhaps you could have a look at the demo. http://www.vbseo.com/demo . :)

I am going to get it when the GOLD version comes out, which is soon.

I'd like to give it a go, maybe even a few licenses, but not as long as it's (in my opinion) so grossly overpriced. I also take issue with the encryption since as a coder poking around to suit my needs is almost mandatory, the lack of a brand-free option may be a problem too. Is there a setup for uninstalling? i.e. 301ing your old rewritten URLs back to the standard? If not, then removing the SEO software once the effect has taken hold would decimate rankings, so it's a one-way ticket in that sense. If they're thought of that, terrific. :)

It does sound good and it does sound tempting, but there's too many caveats to make it a must-have. Personally.