Is vBSEO for vB4 Worth The Money?

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Originally Posted by thecore762

I am on your forums as "IcEWoLF".
Will do and thank you.

My software was the same, I did rebuild my whole website from scratch, lost 2 years of worth of posts and members.
Only difference between old forums and new forums is the design and me adding vBSEO and adding the vBSEO Sitemap instead of using the default vBulletin one.
In 2 months my forums grew up big time and the analytics are really showing how good it was.
There is lots of stuff I learned from the vBSEO forums, and I am still learning.
Again, I honestly think its a great software and it has a lot.
The real time analytics from gravity insight $99 is awesome (got it for free with vBSEO). It beats the google analytics big time.
Also they give you maxCDN for free for the first year which by itself is $40.
Honestly you are not just getting the software and great support, but you are getting a lot of features with it.
Many of the settings are pre-configured so you don't really need to do much.
I do strongly recommend enabling the google adsense targeting feature.
Again, I am biased because I own the software but I was just like you before I bought it.
As you can see on my forums, we received nearly $700 in donations this month alone, so I have a very strong community that helps us paying for the cost.
I would not have been able to do this without their help.

Thanks a lot man I really appreciate your feedback on this. A lot of people I've talked to are like ugh quit arguing with me and just buy it.

I really have been considering buying it but like I said their features list looks weak to me compared to all of the SEO work I have already done on my site. For instance, I use mod-rewrite urls and I'm satisfied with them. I really don't want vbSEO's mod-rewrite urls. I don't think it would make a difference compared to what I have now and I also don't like the .html added at the end.

For instance, a member profile with vbseo is www.yoursite.com/members/username.html

I'm gonna pay my host to set it up so that member profiles are like myspace.com url rewrites like this: www.mysite.com/username That's shorter and more attractive.

I don't need real-time analytics or maxCDN as I get all that stuff from Cloudflare in your Cloudflare Thread

Waait. Are you going to use maxCDN and cloudflare at the same time?

Is that even possible?

So that leaves me with these vbSEO features: linkback, refbacks... pinging?

$149 for that? There's gotta be more to it cause then I'd just feel stupid if I bought it for their refback feature only which I probably don't need.

I've read that they have a pinging service in the pubsubhubbub thread. What's that about?