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What's the difference between the vBSEO and the 'normal' vBulletin powered forums and would/could anyone suggest the best to use please.

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vBSEO is an SEO mod for vBulletin. Amongst many other things it it rewrites the URLs to make them more search engine friendly. If you compare the URLs on this site to a vanilla vB install as you navigate the forum, you will see the difference.

Th URL rewrites which is one of it's most useful features require Apache with mod_rewrite. Your site is running on a Microsoft server so if you're interested in it, you should have a word with Phil at OpenMind to see if he can do anything about about rewriting the URLs. There are some mods for MS servers to do this, see http://www.isapirewrite.com/ for example.

Even if you can't rewrite your URLs, vBSEO is still a very useful mod for vB due to it's many other features such as the automatic pinging of services such as pingomatic when new threads are created and changing all your external links to use nofollow unless you put the URLs on your whitelist (This last one also has the advantage of making your site less attractive to some spammers due to you removing any search engine benefit they will gain by link spamming your site),

vB works very with search engines without any modifications but this mod does help and made a noticeable difference to this forum's search results.

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Lawrence

We support vbSEO as we have ISAPI Rewrite installed. There is a separate set of rules for the plug in which is supplied when you purchase it.

Works very well I have found in the past...

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maybe a stupid question but is vbseo an ADD ON rather than something that I can buy as a whole forum package?

Seems daft that they would offer a normal straight forward VB package AND then an add on without offering the 2 together if it can be used together.

Why I ask is that I want to start a forum, not connected to just4girlz, but a Landlord and Tenant forum associated with Just4Let and attach it to the site.

Gareth

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Enjoy shopping online at Just 4 Girlz. Cosmetics, jewellery, bath & shower products, hair accessories, stationery, and even dressing up clothes! It's all right here at your fingertips. Stay in the stress free zone and enjoy an online shopping experience at Just 4 Girlz.
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It is an add-on. but it's not from vB, it's from a 3rd party company hence why they don't offer the two together.

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Lawrence

Thanks for providing the good information of SEO ,SEO is itself a good practice which can be used to increase web traffic

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