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What does this modification do?
This modification will allow you to automatically have more search engine friendly URLs in your vBulletin. A forum which would normally display as forumdisplay?f=1 will now appear as f1-forumtitle.html and the same with threads. Having keywords in your URL can be of an advantage in search-engine ranking.
Requirements:
You must have mod_rewrite apache module enabled on your server. Contact your host for more information.
This will not work well for non-english boards as it strips most non-alpha numeric characters. E.g. ? would be stripped on french boards etc
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This one has a lot of bugs in it. vbseo is really good but i doubt to pay 150$ for it. The price is really high.
It depents SEO can make your business grow and make you more money than anything else.
Non profit sites should prob not buy this, but from what I have heared it is the best you can get for the moment and there is little or no competition, thats why they can ask pretty mutch what they want
It depents SEO can make your business grow and make you more money than anything else.
Non profit sites should prob not buy this, but from what I have heared it is the best you can get for the moment and there is little or no competition, thats why they can ask pretty mutch what they want
I dont agree with you at all. SEO is not so needed by vBulletin forums. Regular vBulletin forums are pretty good crawled by spiders. Of course with SEO it will be better but this products price is really high. If you can check vBulletin modifications you can see the prices range is between 10$ - 75$ . That price is even expensive than vBulletin and you can check anywhere or ask any sales departmant a products , sub product cannot be expensive the regular product. I agree it shall be sold but the fair price should be around 60-80 $
You're right, it is a high price for an "addon". However, it's good spent money if you can get your site in the first 2 pages on google as a result of it.
And from my own experience, I don't think vbulletin gets good ranking at all. We use to have 600 pages, mostly memberlist and other useless pages. It's just a few weeks that we are customizing the original code and optimizing it and we did go to 12000 pages in google so far. If you look around, you will find many other case studies.
EDIT: just wanted to add that it seems that it only works if you go to the thread via a forum. If you go to it through the index (e.g last thread etc.) it will go to the php file.
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