[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by Andreas

IMHO it is pretty similar.
If I am right, vBSEO basically does URL rewriting - which is what other Hacks (like DC SEO or vBRanking) do as well.

It does do rewriting but it rewrites many things and gives you the options on the different types of formats to use in the url. You can also easily manage all your custom rewrites that are outside the forum directory within the vbseo control panel. You can 301 redirect your archive to the actual thread which I love, instead of having a user see a vanilla style. You can rewrite the keywords and desription meta tags to include words specific to that page.

The list goes on. It takes 5 minutes to install and requires no knowledge of modrewrite.

Call me lazy, whatever, but time = money and time is not on my side this semester. 150 dollars got me what I wanted and even more. I actually tried Deans hack before I bought vbseo and found it to be very limiting compared to the options vbseo gives me.