Cheapskates SEO Guide

[Joe_Be]

Hi, vBulletin owners!

If your anything like me and want to provide your forum with the best possible chance of being discovered in a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo or Ask. Then you need to do some SEO! (Search Engine Optimization)

I am myself, a complete novice, when it come to vBulletin or SEO related issues. But what I do know however, is that it can be very difficult to find out how to SEO your forum without forking out $149 for 'vBSEO'.

So I have created the Cheapskates SEO Guide. It's not much of a guide really, but I will provide you links to some of the best SEO 'Mods' and 'Guides' that I have come across. Allowing you to create a really 'search engine friendly' forum for free! Sorted.

Site Maps: A site map is a file that lists the URLs of a Web site.
A site map is used by search engines and crawlers to navigate the site and optimize visibility.

vBSEO Google Sitemaps

The "vBSEO Google Sitemaps" plugin provides a solution that allows your forum to be indexed by the Google (and also Yahoo and Ask) search engines faster, more completely, more effectively, and with less bandwidth consumption.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=206169

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Friendly URLs: Friendly URLs improve usability and user experience.
Optimized URLs prevent duplicate content and help search engine spiders crawl better.

Replace URL's With Page Title

"This product will automatically take any incoming parsed link and display the title of that page instead of showing the URL."

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=155909

C-logic SEO

"C-logic SEO is a creation by me for all the vb users that wish to have a better url system, its very basic yet completly complex, C-Logic SEO contains the programming needed to rewrite your urls and making them more user friendly and search engine friendlier!"

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=search+engine

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Free SEO Mod: The mother of all free SEO solutions! If you would rather not manually SEO your forum you can install one of these handy mods. This particular link provides you with the 3.8 compatible version of 'Zoints SEO'.

Zoints SEO

"Zoints SEO has been in development for a couple of years now. It is an amalgamation of various modifications made to a Big-Board that helped it get to that status. This SEO modification was created with very large boards in mind but should help small forums too."

http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=5028

YABBSEO

"YABBSEO[vB] is a well-developed easy-to-use lighty module for vBulletin aiming at optimizing your forum for Search Engines."

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=search+engine

Search Engine Optimized Keywords

"This plugin gives you the facility to add some special keywords and descriptions to each forum thus allowing you to optimize each of your forum for its relevant keywords."

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=search+engine

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Manual SEO: Okay, this option is a lot more time consuming but gives you the pleasure of setting up your forums SEO by yourself, step by step. This is a great little guide to get you started.

"How to SEO vBulletin without vBSEO."

http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/h...seo-15827.html

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I would have saved some time if I had seen all of these links in one place so I hope this helps at least one person SEO their forum

If you have any other info on SEO please let me know!

JB