Version: 1.5.0b, by MOGmartin
Developer Last Online: Mar 2019
Category: Board Optimization -
Version: 4.0.x
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Released: 01-25-2010
Last Update: 10-12-2010
Installs: 647
DB Changes Auto-Templates
Additional Files
No support by the author.
New Version: 13th October 2010 - fixes the following:
1) searches that contain backslashes no longer give a database error
2) statistics pages cleanued up, improved pagination for big boards
3) random "ghost" keywords like "0h" now solved.
What does this plugin do?
It automatically increases your search engine traffic for long tail queries, by embedding the actual search terms that people use to find your site in an auto-updating tag cloud on every page.
This is one of the plugins used by SEOforums.org - the #1 SEO forum in google!
Full description, screenshots and more about this plugin is available here
I have also released a brand-free (gold) version here
Installation:
1. Download plugin archive and unzip it. You will find in the zip file, a product XML and
an "upload" folder.
2. Login to yor vBulletin admin control panel.
3. Open "Plugins & Products", and go to "Manage Products".
Click on "[Add/Import Product]".
4. Import the XML file that came with this download. Make sure you choose "allow
overwrite" = yes.
5. Upload all content from folder "upload" to you forum root direcory.
USAGE LICENSE AGREEMENT: You are welcome to use this plugin free of charge on condition that the link in the footer remains. You can remove that by purchasing the brand free version over at my site (the link is at the top of this description).
~VB Staff Comment:
Please note that this modification adds a link to one of three of the developers sites to the footer of each page.
After using this mod I see no SEO benefit
the only thing that this mod seems to be good at is providing a linkback to the developer
If the developer does not care about what customers are saying about his modification, or answer question to potential customers he must not care about the reputation of his name or his website.
Do yourself a favor and uninstall this mod. It is nothing but trouble with a linkback.
Why link to a website that is very poor in seo its-self
Not only that...
Hear me out for a second, now I realize there can be MANY things that affect SE Placement however, after a few months of using this mod, seeing results pour in, keywords popping up for threads, I noticed last month my traffic from Google dropped drastically.
Keep in mind I have made NO other modifications to my vbulletin and it generally is still indexed by google (the main pages at least). But once thriving, big threads with lots of discussions that used to get lots of traffic from Google are now DEINDEXED.
I'm interested to see if anyone else ran into this penalty from using this mod; all things considered its costing me thousands of hits per month.
Google even says, before employing any methods would you feel comfortable explaining the method to a Google Representative. And although it seemed like a great idea when I was installing it, contacting google and explaining what this mod does gives me pause.
Sorry to hear your loss but I've been running it since it's release in early 2010. I've seen nothing but gains in traffic. As for explaining it to google, I don't see any issues with that either.