vBulletin SEO Setup

Up until recently I would try to only blog about vBulletin, webmaster or SEO topics on this blog here, but now I’m thinking we should expand on that greatly. I have posted a few off-topic post here and there, but they still most likely had something to do with vBulletin or forums in general.

I recently asked some of our members to give examples of what they would like this see. The results were still centered around vb, seo and forum management. I think these are great and very useful to a lot of people. I think we still need something to have fun with, or even talk about something that we don’t know about. We have some blog contributors and I know they don’t always want to talk about vBulletin stuff.

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Branding is one of the most important things you should do for your sites. As a webmaster it is your responsibility to create a brand and carry it out throughout your site. I have tried to do that from the first few weeks of creation, but I knew if I wanted a fluid style that would go over the entire URL it would take some money and time. Well the time I had, but money was another thing. I’ve been saving a little each month for the past year for this day. As you see, the blog has a new look to it, if you check out the forums and directory, you’ll see the same look. I’d like to give a big thanks to miner at MinerSkinz for the style, he did a wonderful job and is extremely easy and professional to work with. I had always know that some day miner would design our style. There are many other great designers, and not to bash on them, but when I seen what miner could put out, I knew he was our man. I’ve already posted for a few reviews around the net, one at vbulletin.org, one at adminfusion.com and one at digitalpoint.com, all reviews have been outstanding! We’ve had several comments about the amazing postbit, and the simple navigation.

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted on these blogs so we’ve came up with a solution. We will have multiple authors that will post on this blog. If you are interested, and you are a forum member, please register on the blogs and vote in this post.

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Many of you who run a wordpress blog know about the two recent updates they have pushed out. I don’t usually keep the blog as up to date as I should, but I did happen to update the blog last week, then got hit with another update this week..lol I don’t really see the changes that happen, but oh well, guess they are security updates.

vBulletin.com released the newest beta version of 3.7. It’s up to beta 5, should be a few RC’s then gold Hopefully before summer time. We upgraded the forum with no problems at all, again I don’t really know what was done with the upgrades, I just did it for any bug fixes..lol

One thing I can tell you about as far as updates go, is that I’ve updated the phpLD directory that we have on this URL. The latest verion (3.3) has the ability to submit articles which I think kicks ass! I’ve been wanting this feature for a while now, and I know there was a paid mod that would achive this, but I really didn’t want to hack the directory up for fear of upgrades. I’ve temporarily opened up the Submit Articles option up to non-logged in users and also added the WYSIWYG editor.. This way you can make some text bold and it should allow you to just submit a better, more readable, article.? Submit your Article here.

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Last night I was able to do a little bit of work to the blog. I added a performance hack and a sitemap.

• WP Super Cache - Donncha massively improved WP Cache to increase performance by about 300%! No blog should be without this plugin, and if you?’re using WP Cache you need to upgrade immediately!
• Google XML Sitemaps - creates a sitemap which helps search engines fully index all pages to ensure better search performance.
• ? Other Posts from Cat plugin for WordPress - Notice the related links below each of my posts? Well, this is the plugin that handles that.

I am planning on adding a few more things to help with SEO and the whole blogaspear. One of the many blogs I visit a week is OneMansBlog, has a list of hacks he uses. Since I’m a bit green to wp still, I’ll be looking for advice where ever I can get it.

So far the new home page hasn’t been reindexed by google, I expect it will be by the end of this week. Our hits have already started to go up, from 150 uniques to 200, and from under 1,000 page views, to well over 2,000

I’m really excited about the new blog, I wont be posting in the vblog as much, so it’ll have to be up to the members to take up the slack..lol

-Brandon

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