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Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I really dont understand why people always suggest taking "powered by vbulletin" out of the tag.

sometimes I actually google (for example) "sports board vbulletin"


I intentionally look for vbulletin boards....and really like the fact that my boards are vbulletin and want it to be known.

Won't the results still appear in Google because of the copyright text in the footer?
Here's my website results:
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Here's a relevant discussion on it:
http://www.vbseo.com/f28/how-remove-...e-titles-4677/

Both viewpoints are posted there, but the end agreement is that it's best to remove it.

Of course I guess it depends who your clients/target audience are. If they're tech-savvy people who refuse to use a forum unless it's based on vBulletin, then absolutely keep it, it would be silly not to!
But for 99.9% of people they won't care. When I search for something, I don't care what software is used to run it. I'd pick a 10,000 post forum run by **shudder** phpBB over a 300 post vBulletin forum anyday. It's about the content and quality of content rather than whether it's run by vBulletin, phpBB, IBP, Wordpress, blogger, or whatever software package.

If I was building a blog, I would not put "Powered by Wordpress" in my title. I would think "why should I give up half my Title just to promote some software that 99% of my members don't give a damn about? That should go in the footer".