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Old 08-18-2008, 06:35 PM
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Can anyone tell me if I really will benefit from buying vbseo. I've been looking around on the web and there sure seems a lot of "hype" for the product. What I wonder is how much of the hype is real. Not that I am for one minute suggesting that any company might have written there own posts in support of their product.

Anyway back to the subject of my post. I would really like to find out what people think. I am just starting out a new forum. I would prefer not to spend the money on VBseo and I'm also wondering if VB 4.0 will offer some help with URL rewrite. So should I hold off buying anything, wait for VB 4.0, try a product like tfseo or spend the money and buy vbseo.

Also anyone know of any similar mods to tfseo and vbseo?

Lastly I see that VBseo is now offering more products to interface with google. Any other mods ou there that do similar things.

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Old 08-18-2008, 06:40 PM
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VBSEO is just fine. NOTE: your site must have good content to get better. VBSEO and other mods just help search engines find your content and display them when they are search for .

and if you think it's costly check your PMs i offered you something
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Old 08-18-2008, 06:56 PM
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I purchased vBSEO prior to opening my community a month ago, and so far 9% of all incoming traffic is through search engines. It's a nice add-on to have, but as UaECasher said, you have to have good content in the form of commonly searched terms.
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I also use vbseo. Big advantage is that after buying it you can simply forget about seo. Before buying vbseo I was installing modifications here from vb.org or wrote something myself in templates or mods. That takes time and energy. Instead now I just installed vbseo, set all the settings and everything is done by vbseo. They do the seo job for me
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Old 08-18-2008, 11:55 PM
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and if you think it's costly check your PMs i offered you something
I think it's costly, offer me something too =D
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there are several threads about vbseo already, these usually end up closed

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/search.php?searchid=9795409
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The simple fact is that there is nothing you can do with vbseo that is not possible with free mods with some basic work.
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Old 08-19-2008, 02:58 AM
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The simple fact is that there is nothing you can do with vbseo that is not possible with free mods with some basic work.
This is what I was thinking. Plus I'm wondering if VB4 will also incorporate some of the mods. Can you suggest to me some reliable mods. I found the tfseo mod and I'm wondering if this would do most of what's needed and also wondering how reliable it is.

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vBSEO.
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The simple fact is that there is nothing you can do with vbseo that is not possible with free mods with some basic work.
I'd think so as well. I've checked the source code for a forum with vBSEO installed, and mine, using free tools for similar purposes, and I see no distinctive difference in SEO-related stuff. I'm also concerned about the fact that the vBSEO people seem loathe to respond to emails unless you are a customer (I was asking something ahead of a potential sale) and they use marketing techniques that smell of snake oil. They are very similar to the junk mails you get in which they promise you SEO miracles if you pay them enough money.

This is not to say that I wouldn't buy it. I do use the free vBSEO Sitemap Generator, for example. But it's far too costly to justify purchase, compared to the license fee of vBulletin itself. Now if they were sensible and asked, say, $59 per license, I'd jump at it. Otherwise, it smacks of profiteering.

Meantime, Superjeff's TfSEO 2 has some bugs, which he's working on, but that already does a fair portion of what vBSEO does (when I add the sitemap generator of course).

Someone feel free to correct me.

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