VBSEO Uninstall

[toon79]

Thinking of removing VBSEO for 2 reasons, 1) No longer supported and 2) Heavy server loads. The post on how to remove it is gone: http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/mert-goek...all-vbseo-238/

Does anyone have a mirror of this anywhere and how many people have successfully removed it from their VB4 site already?

[final kaoss]

You can still browse it using archive.org

[ikopylov]

I am removing VBSEO from several sites

[final kaoss]

Not me, I've already applied several hotfixes from various threads to fix security issues, along with a little bit of extra security lines in my htaccess file to help stop various exploits.

Originally Posted by ikopylov

I am removing VBSEO from several sites

[New Joe]

I have this to think about too....or just move to xenforo and be done with all this vb stuff...

[toon79]

Originally Posted by ikopylov

I am removing VBSEO from several sites

Do you have any tips or links that could help me?

[New Joe]

This is what I took from VBSEO before they closed down:

If you ever need to uninstall vBSEO , you can use the following instructions. Make sure you carefully follow each step.

Login to your vBSEO Cp and disable vBSEO
Login to your Admincp and Browse to Plugins & Products
Uninstall vBSEO product file , on the next step you'll be given 2 options
If you ever plan to install vBSEO on the same domain , choose Keep vBSEO data in Database
If you will not use vBSEO again choose Cleanup vBSEO Data
Delete all files include .htaccess from your server via ftp. You can find the list of files that needs to be deleted below.


Files that needs to be deleted

admincp
admin_vbseo.php
clientscript
vbseo_ajax.js
images
vbseo
anchor.png
delicious.gif
digg.gif
facebook.gif
furl.gif
goto_linkbacks.gif
linkback.gif
linkback_about.gif
linkback_url.gif
mister-wong
pingback.gif
post_linkback.gif
reddit.gif
refback.gif
spurl.gif
technorati.gif
trackback.gif
includes
cron
vbseo_serviceupdate.php
xml
bitfield_vbseo.xml
cpnav_vbseo.xml
vbseo_urls_001.xml
vbseo_urls_002.xml
vbseo_urls_003.xml
vbseo_urls_004.xml
vbseo_urls_005.xml
vbseo_urls_006.xml
vbseocp_deutsch (du).xml
vbseocp_deutsch (sie).xml
vbseocp_dutch.xml
vbseocp_english.xml
vbseocp_russian.xml
vbseocp_turkce.xml
functions_vbseo.php
functions_vbseo_cache.php
functions_vbseo_createurl.php
functions_vbseo_crr.php
functions_vbseo_db.php
functions_vbseo_hook.php
functions_vbseo_linkback.php
functions_vbseo_misc.php
functions_vbseo_pre.php
functions_vbseo_seo.php
functions_vbseo_startup.php
functions_vbseo_url.php
functions_vbseo_vb.php
md5_sums_crawlability_vbseo.php
modcp
vbseo_moderate.php
vbseo.php
vbseocp.php
vbseocpform.php
.htaccess


After uninstallation you can also redirect your indexed content to original vBulletin urls. Please carefully check the rewrite rules and use the one that fits your current url structure. If your url structure isn't listed below please post a sample example so we can supply the correct rules.

If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadid-threadname.html use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid.html use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
If you have your thread rewrite rules set as forum-name/threadname-threadid/ use the following .htaccess
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)/ http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1

[FreshFroot]

If anyone has troubles with license activation or still wants to use vBSEO and have it function still. Let me know, as I've helped a handful of people. And all of them including myself are still using vBSEO safely and securely.

Personally, I see no point in getting rid of vBSEO right now.

[toon79]

Originally Posted by New Joe

This is what I took from VBSEO before they closed down:

Thanks for this, I would have thought they'd be more rewrites than that? Is it really that simple? Has anyone successfully uninstalled without loosing any inbound links.

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Managed to turn VBSEO off and reroute all threads. How do I do the same for forums/members/blogs etc?

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Got all threads and forums working now, what about members/blogs/articles etc?

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Any clues on rerouting the CMS/Blogs/Community pages?

[ikopylov]

Tragically, one line RewriteRule can not do all...

At the last site from which I removed vbseo
It has been created:

Temporarily for a period of re-indexing:
- 4 new directory with htaccess (10 to 50 lines of different redirects)
- main htaccess about 100 lines

For permanent use:
- 1 new directory with htaccess (about 50 lines of different redirects)
- main htaccess about 20 lines

After removal of the vbseo
Attendance has decreased by 10-15%
PR site is not changed
Attendance was restored in about a month

In the creation of all forwarding was used:
- Google Webmaster
- Yandex WebMaster
- Server Error log