[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by yayvb

Ok I see the last vbseo thread was closed I guess because people were not
being nice to eachother. I just wanted to let everyone know about my
unhappiness with them. I purchased the script yesterday, and about 40
hours later I get a private message from vbseo staff saying that they won't
sell me the script because my content is not allowed.

I run a vbulletin community website for people that like Marijuana. I'm
sorry if you don't agree with what I and many others believe, but I think it is
messed up to deny someone a script that is being sold to others just
because you may not want my site to be optimized? I don't know the exact
reasoning, maybe because they don't want their link on the bottom of the
page on a marijuana site?

I really wanted to try and see if I could notice a difference, I spent the $150
and now I guess they're going to refund it hopefully since they won't give me
the script.

Is there anything that I could easily do that vbulletin doesn't already do to
make my website more prominent in the engines?

It is not about not wanting your site to be "optimized" it is about not wanting their product associated with something they do not agree with or support.

You may not like it however it is their right as a business to choose to do this.

Originally Posted by AWI

Seems to me the content of his site is not adult oriented and not illegal. I would understand if his site involved pornography but I guess the people at vBSeo want to push their opinions/beliefs on their potential customers and censor the use which is bad business. It's a shame because it works great...like Zach said I hope someone comes out with the same or better version and of course open source would be nice.

You know... you cry because they wish to "push" their beliefs on others yet you are putting them down for their right to have this belief and too stand up for something they believe in. That is what this country is about right? Someone can make a product, that represents them as a company, and they should have a right to control who uses their product and how the person uses. Whether or not it will reflect badly on their company in their eyes.

I do not understand how this is discrimination. He is not denying them this product because of sex or skin color. He is denying them this product because their site has content on it that he does not wish to have his name associated with.

When it first came out there was a guy denied because he ran an aduly themed site. I too thought at the time it was a horrible business practice and he shouldn't do this. Now however I understand why they chose to do this and since buying it I could not be happier with the friendly support, the prompt response to questions, and amazing features that come with the software. The ease of use is amazing.

Your opinion that it is "bad business" is hardly provable... they seem to be doing pretty well to me. They have my business and support. I could not be happier.

It's a bit of a funny one that really, because in some countries it's accepted and legal to smoke it.

This is not about whether or not it is illegal. This is about whether or not VBSEO wants to have their product associated with something that is of nature as this.

As for VBSEO, I think that it is a joke to what they are charging for that software. The hack itself is just as much as the Vbulletin software. So would I purchase it at $150? No! Would I try it out if it were only $20-$30, most definetly. If I didn't like it or if it caused to many problems, I would just uninstall it.

What is a joke to one is Gold to another. It has many features in it you won't find in any other vbulletin SEO hack. It is EASILY customizable and EASILY installed. Not to mention that their Sitemap hack plugs right into this and uses the rewritten urls flawlessly. It allows easy rewrites of all non vb scripts as well as redirecting the archive thread links to the actual thread content, reducing duplicate content and directing traffic directly to the real thread instead of some vanilla plan thread. It has smart filtering for showpost threads and does not allow spidering of printthread urls.

It is slowly expanding into more than just a basic URL rewriting script.