vBulletin SEO Setup

Bottom line: Don’t do it, and don’t even think about it doing it. If you are taking care of your own SEO or have hired a company or individual to take care of your SEO Campaign, it is still your responsibilty to ensure you or your hired gun are only using “white hat SEO”. You do not want to mistakingly or knowningly take part of such a scheme…ever.

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Everyone knows that Internet Brands a media company that primarily does their business over the Internet purchased Jelsoft a few months prior. Jelsoft is the company that created one of the most successful forum software available today called vBulletin and you most likely knew that, since we all love vBulletin.

vBulletin is about to enter the 3.7 release series and here at vBulletin Setup we’re wondering what everyone thinks about it. Do you like the new features, do you think these new features only came because of the buy out? Do you think the production cycle has taken to long for the product? Keep in mind its only been 5 months since the first beta was released to the public, if you need something to compare that to, Wordpress (popular blogging software) took almost 6 months to go from beta to public for their latest 2.5 release.

At any rate, we’d love to hear some feedback about how you think Internet Brands has done so far with vBulletin, so stop by our forums, and let us know your thoughts. If you already aren’t a forum member, the registration is free, and the community is great so there isn’t a reason not to!

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John Gruber points out something that I must have seen a zillion times and never noticed: The deep integration of Google Search with the Mac OS X. He adds that this contextual menu command and ?the search is performed in Safari, regardless whether it?s your preferred browser or not.? Who knew? I wonder how big that ?referral revenue? check for Apple is every month?

To put it unscientifically: Apple gets a big fat whopper of a check. Back in June 2007, Gruber had estimated that Apple was bringing in $25 million a year mostly from the search box in the Safari browser. Nine months later, Apple has been on a tear, selling more computers than ever before and has seen an uptick in its market share. In addition, many millions of iPhones have been sold. Mobile Safari Browser generates ton of search traffic, not to mention boosting the map usage. This tight integration between Apple and Google must result in a big exchange of dollars.

What is your best guess? Scientific answers are preferred but I will settle for unscientific best guesse.

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Which explains why i haven’t been able to think about anything to write about and the lack of good articles from myself.

I think i know when i happened. It was the night of April the 6th, I was sitting there in my chair getting ready to finish an article about why black hat SEO is bad, and then BOOM out of no where my brain and thoughts and everything were gone.

I’m slowly working on regaining my brain cells which should provide further articles for actual use on the front page. If this ever sees the light of day the site would probably lose all creditability as being full of good vBulletin people!

I did however buy a new video game which is why i think it’s totally blocked me from doing much of anything other then playing it. Lost Odyssey its pretty awesome, i play it a lot on my 360 yea.

Ok Mr aliens please give me back my brains!

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Many people beleive that Google is the only thing that matters on the internet. They design their sites with only Google in mind and obtaining that top position for a highly searched keyword/phrase. While these nut jobs are running around spending countless hours doing this, they’re over looking a very important part of any community or website for that matter. User Experience.

Google is NOT the internet, it isn’t your websites success or failure it isn’t even a measure of your success or failure. Google is a tool, one that you should use, but use in moderation and wisely. Do not make your site for Google, make your site for Users! And I’ll even tell you why!

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Building relevant backlinks is key to any SEO campaign and theres tons of ways to get them, You could “link bait” to get backlinks which is sorta like fishing for links, or you can browse a couple of these sites and contact other webmasters who are constantly looking for traders.

I’ll go over what to look for, what to avoid, and how to do it without making it look like a reciprocial exchange.

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So you want your site to be big, and famous and be the envy of everyone in the webmaster world! Well don’t we all, and that presents all us newer sites a huge problem going up against the established sites, they’ve usually got a firm grip on search engines, members, and content and just about everything else you’re going after!

Well put an end to that with a effective marketing campaign. Marketing your site can be as easy as putting a little more detailed information and costing you nothing, to launching a full out attack and purchasing advertising space, Adwords and other methods of showing your site.

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