[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by oddmud

I'm also having issues here with using vBSEO's clean up HTML. Since I have to put the <!--@vbbanners:#@--> directly in the template, it's cutting it out and not displaying the ad.

Are we going to be able to put this code inside the vBulletin Ad Manger at some point?

That vBSEO feature (cleanup white space) accomplishes nothing really useful. vBSEO does a lot of things quite well and has a lot of features but just because a feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it. There are several newer vBSEO features that actually have a negative impact on server performance.

The cleanup feature doesn't negatively impact performance but it DOES interfere with this mod and what it does is entirely superfluous. Spiders can navigate white space and ignore comments quite well - that's what they are designed to do - and any impact of comment lines on page load speeds is purely theoretical.

Your choice: Include a vBSEO feature which really has minimal or zero benefit to your forum OR disable that feature and use the rotating banners mod which can potentially have a huge benefit for you and your forum.

For me it was an easy decision.