[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

rewritten urls are rewritten urls, doesnt matter if vBseo rewrites them or vRewrite does them.

your sorta correct,, the vrewrite is a good mod, but last time I installed it, there wasn't a sitemap that would submit the rewritten url's, so it was pointless really

plus you have pretty much one or two options how you want your url's..
vbseo has many options as to how you want your url's to be, including length, forum/thread ID's excluding worlds, or if a thread title has acronym es in them, vbseo can make it the word..

for example..
if a user posted,, "have you used vB today"

you can make vbseo change "vb" to "vbulletin"

so the new url would be " have you used vbulletin today"

some other options are, the word separators, you can use w/e u want like; - _ . or your custom divider..

but like Code Monkey said, back links are more important then anything, vBSEO isn't needed to make your site succeed, but it will help I've seen it happen on a dozen site myself, not to mention the 100's of clients at vbseo, very few are un-happy

here are some more tips to help with vBulletin Search Engine Optimizing not releated to vBSEO or any other rewrite