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Originally Posted by T2DMan

Getting the vBulletin url's corrected is certainly not a small task, and you have certainly done well getting this far. Yes, I happen to support the one rewrite that I consider does a 110% job at rewrites, but you are getting there.

Yup, I agree. There are still some quirks that I am working on ironing out. But with client work these past few weeks, it really has put me on a limited time budget.

Originally Posted by T2DMan

I like the nextthread/prevthread per hosting talk but the archive seems to be broken there.

The archive I cannot reproduce on my own site. So he may be using an outdated version that I have fixed by mistake (this was never reported as a bug before).

Originally Posted by T2DMan

That you recommend the use of the vbulletin option to have the archive linking directly to the actual threads. This gets the most Google PR/link value etc to the actual threads - this was an option I was able to get added to vBulletin 3.5.

I haven't had time to figure out how to do 301 redirects. I had a failed attempt, which I posted in my support thread, but sadly never got answered. I'll take another stab once I get all the known bugs ironed out.

Originally Posted by T2DMan

[*]And that the thread url on the archive is rewritten.

What would you like to see them to get rewitten to? The same format vRewrite does it to?

Originally Posted by T2DMan

[*]when the root forum url is linked, that instead of it being "/index.php", that it be just "/". Matt Cutts says Google is working on determining what url should be the correct url, but better that each site do it for themselves.

Never heard of that one, but I'm not quite sure on how I would go about doing that. May be just a simple str_replace, I'll take a stab at that one.

Originally Posted by T2DMan

You are working on the newpost/latest post? - in the pre 3.5 vBulletin, my rewrite kept the initial url, but then when it searched for the url in the php, it then did a 301 redirect to the proper url - correctly paginated. That general logic should be able to be coded for your plugins. Rather similar to what you have done for the nextthread/previous thread

It rewrites the actual newpost/latest post, but I cannot figure out how to fix the redirect for the life of me. May have to add that as a code mod. I'm clueless at that one as is Cole and Chroder (Thanks again guys for all the help and assistance!)

Originally Posted by T2DMan

there will be other issues, but those are the ones I see at the moment.[/list]Google SiteMap

Should be an easy job to either mod my vbgsitemap, or the vbseo one for your url's.

Plans is it get all bugs fixed first, and then I'll try and work on something. That is, unless you want to do it

Originally Posted by T2DMan

No mention of seo'ing of vBulletin is complete without talking about onpage SEO.

If the first words of the title are the words that you are optimizing for, then this phrase should also be in the meta description twice, in an h1, and then repeated in sentence/paragraph form immediately following the h1. Most people posting threads do not repeat the title in the text they write, so repeating it via a formula makes sense. In looking around the forums mentioned on this thread I have seen a few using my formula. In general, with a proper url rewrite (almost achieved here), plus great onpage SEO I have been able to get many vBulletin sites so that their forums and threads are all showing high on the SERP's.

And with good search phrase selection, those pages are then able to get good traffic for the forums.

The onpage hints are just the same as needed for any site, and can be found on most SEO pages, but I have some specific template changes mentioned on my Search Engine Optimize vBulletin 3.5 thread.

I'll try and read up on more vB SEO, but currently it just rewrites URLs. A small step, but it's still a step