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Originally Posted by djbaxter

I would recommend option 1. The available evidence indicates that keywords in a domain name help but that keywords in the page URL have little or no impact on SE ranking. By enabling any form of URL rewrite, you are adding to server load with little or no return.

And the reality is that vBulletin is SE friendly out of the box. Pick any area and do a search for forums in that area. To narrow it down, tack vBulletin on to the end of the search query. Then look at the URL structure for the forums in the search results. How many of the top forums are using URL rewrite?

That said, there are several other reasons why I think Zoints SEO is helpful and it's for those features that I have it installed.

if you use option one you will not get friendly urls i would recommend using option 2 this is far better unless you have the mod_rewrite tool!

option two is much better for search engines with much nicer urls for the normal user to remember as well!