VBSEO Uninstall
 

Thinking of removing VBSEO for 2 reasons, 1) No longer supported and 2) Heavy server loads. The post on how to remove it is gone: http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/mert-goek...all-vbseo-238/

Does anyone have a mirror of this anywhere and how many people have successfully removed it from their VB4 site already?

You can still browse it using archive.org

I am removing VBSEO from several sites

Not me, I've already applied several hotfixes from various threads to fix security issues, along with a little bit of extra security lines in my htaccess file to help stop various exploits.

I have this to think about too....or just move to xenforo and be done with all this vb stuff...

Do you have any tips or links that could help me?

This is what I took from VBSEO before they closed down:

If anyone has troubles with license activation or still wants to use vBSEO and have it function still. Let me know, as I've helped a handful of people. And all of them including myself are still using vBSEO safely and securely.

Personally, I see no point in getting rid of vBSEO right now.

Thanks for this, I would have thought they'd be more rewrites than that? Is it really that simple? Has anyone successfully uninstalled without loosing any inbound links.

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Managed to turn VBSEO off and reroute all threads. How do I do the same for forums/members/blogs etc?

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Got all threads and forums working now, what about members/blogs/articles etc?

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Any clues on rerouting the CMS/Blogs/Community pages?

Tragically, one line RewriteRule can not do all...

At the last site from which I removed vbseo
It has been created:

Temporarily for a period of re-indexing:
- 4 new directory with htaccess (10 to 50 lines of different redirects)
- main htaccess about 100 lines

For permanent use:
- 1 new directory with htaccess (about 50 lines of different redirects)
- main htaccess about 20 lines

After removal of the vbseo
Attendance has decreased by 10-15%
PR site is not changed
Attendance was restored in about a month

In the creation of all forwarding was used:
- Google Webmaster
- Yandex WebMaster
- Server Error log

What code did you use for the blogs?

At each site admins make individual settings for vbseo links.
After removal of the vbseo for each site must use individual Redirects/RedirectMatch/Rewrite settings.

If done improperly, the site disappears completely from the search.
Visitors will get on page 404. Which is almost nowhere is not properly done.
Google will enhance the credibility of the site.

The process of removing vbseo consists of:
1 - Explore all options vbseo
2 - The study of links from third-party sites
3 - The creation of Redirects/RedirectMatch/Rewrite
4 - removal
5 - Elimination of the consequences of the error which made ​​vbseo before removal

Example of the error which made ​​vbseo before removal:
/content.php/members/archive/members/images/DarkStyle/buttons/section/content/minsk_podrobnaya_pogoda-28?page=5

several thousands of these errors which showed Google WebMaster
Prior to removing vbseo these pages were in search of Google

Save yourself the headache of removing it, just disable it in plugin manager folks. Works great, it's like it was never installed.

Fantastic!
This is the best advice in the last year
And do it.
Maybe in a couple of sites on the Internet will be less

Huh?

does the above re write works perfectly for threads / forum(Sections) ?

m also interested to know rewrite for members/blogs/articles :-s

Threads and forums worked great, it's just the blogs and CMS I'm struggling with

Anyone had any joy with rewrites for the blogs, CMS and Groups yet?

I too was worried about my website and I had just paid VBSEO for a renewal right before I discovered it was dead!

I just switched over to the DragonByte SEO its still in pre-Released Beta but as it is right now it works just as good if not better for me then the VBSEO... Getting a lot of hits from search engines and misc users... Seems my forums show more for search results too... Most likely the same as VBSEO was. And the DragonByte SEO does have a upgrade script to upgrade from VBSEO to DragonByte SEO which was a huge plus to me.

My forums are not anything really I just like playing around with this stuff as a hobby more or less...

I wish to remove it but I love LIKE plugin they have :( want to keep LIKE plugin ONLY is it possible?

there's plenty of other Like plugins

I am glad I got rid of it and am now using the Vbulletin advanced friendly urls. No need for the mod rewrite urls really.

Removal was a royal pita though but mostly because we had non standard urls and we had changed a couple times.

I hired Ikopylov to take care of the htaccess for me and he has done an amazing job. If you guys are removing this and need help with htaccess this is the guy to go to. I had over 46,000 not found urls and over 6,000 server errors due to broken urls.

Removal was not easy but well worth it. It is one less major thing I have to worry about when upgrading, etc.

##yeah, there are other Post Likes and a good thumbs up mod as well. That is what I use now. No need for the Vbseo likes system.

How much did it cost?

Just shoot him a pm. He checked out my broken urls, etc using webmaster tools and than gave me a price. I am sure it would be different for every site depending on how messed up it is. It was an amazing price and he put tons of time in. It was well worth it. I just wish I did it sooner instead of spending weeks writing my own redirects, most of which were not even set up correctly.

I read through Matt Cutts blog a while ago that the way urls errors were displayed was being changed. Normally, even if you fix a url it will show as an error because it reports on the original url and not the redirected one. They were rolling this out about a month ago or so and I am waiting for4 this to go into effect. Most of my ruls have been fixed, impressions have gone back up, uniques have gone up but I still see the errors in webmaster tools. I can verify they are fixed also.

Something else I am confused about sort of related to Vbseo is the removal of the Vbseo sitemap mod. I removed it a couple months ago and switched to the Vbulletin standard. I removed the old sitemaps and resubmitted the new ones to google a couple months ago and yet it appears those old sitemaps are still indexed.

I can tell this because when I click on broken urls in the tools and then go to the tab for pages that link it still shows those old sitemaps! Why are they there and how do I get rid of them? I have requested removal, blocked the vbseo sitemap urls and have linked the new sitemap in robots.txt. The fact that google is still using those old ones is an issue because the urls were diffent at that time.

Thanks,
Rich

PS - Had this work done mostly last week and I figure results should improve more every day for a couple or few weeks as Google indexes the changes. It is nice though to already see improvement after a couple days!

not many integrated to vbexperience tho :( vbseo like does

It's the members rewrite I'm struggling with the most. Anyone here figured it?

Remove vbseo and keep my url using Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs vbulletin, this is possible? attached a picture with my configuration vBSEO.

Thanks for the help.

http://www.comunidad3d.es/vbseo.jpeg

You posted that gigantic image in your own thread already, and your question has been answered there. No need to spread it any further.