vBulletin SEO Setup

I just seen vBSEO has publicly released the rc5 version of their latest 3.2.0 version of the ultimate vbulletin search engine optimization product available for download today!

I’m getting ready to update vBulletinSetup, here is some info from the vbseo forums.

Attention all vBSEO Customers,

All known bugs in vBSEO 3.2.0 RC4 have been corrected. vBSEO 3.2.0 is now on Release Candidate 5 and we are making it available to all licensed users for testing.

A special thank-you is due to everyone who helped with the RC4 testing and bug reporting, especially the vBSEO Pre-Release Team who always plays a fundamental role in ensuring that our releases are close to bullet-proof!

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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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I just got done posting a thread how you can make money online at vBulletinSetup.com
I’m going to be working for a company out of Las Angeles that I can’t talk about just yet. Expect to see a new blog post sometime this week with exciting info about this new concept!
Anyways.. If you know how to upgrade a forum, or add hacks or modifications that can be found at vb.org or vbh, or update vbulletin styles, check out the thread on making money online at vBulletinSetup.

cheers
-Brandon

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After testing vBuletin 3.7 on a test forum for a few days I figured it was about time to give it a go on the live forum.

I made a full backup and begun to upgrade. Fortunately all the real important mods like the newsletter and GAR’s work fine on 3.7. Well I say that, but I haven’t blasted a newsletter out yet, the page shows fine so I assume the script will work okay as well.?

One of my favorite features about the 3.7 that really made me want to upgrade are the new profiles.
I’ve added a picture since our profiles are closed to guest. I haven’t had much time to play around with it, but you can see I changed some of the colors. I’m working on getting the profiles setup as username.vbulletinsetup.com. I’ll make them public if I’m able to do that.

I like the user albums, hopefully they’ll get more use then our plotoplog gallery does. I like the gallery, and I want to support them. It’s just we’re not really that type of forum…lol

One of the next great addons for vB3.7 is the social groups option.

It will be interesting to see how this gets used, I started an SEO group and an Artist group. I see bdude created a Southpaws group too. You can add images to these groups as well, which I think is really cool.
I think the vB devs have some work to do here still, it would be nice if we could have some modules on the right side or something to split the page up some.

vBulletin 3.7 has also added thread tags in the default install. I had the zoints thread tags on the forum for 7 or 8 months and I can’t say I was to impressed. I had boardtracker before that, and after seeing they didn’t "SEO" the url’s that we’ve paid to change with vbseo, I dropped them. I did however, let their bot still craw the forum. I get a hit every now and then from boardtracker, so I’ll suffer with their poor results. I did hide the bot though..lol "out of site, out of mind" type of thing I guess.

I know whitemike has already ported the recipe mod over to 3.7, I’m not sure if he’s posted it live yet though. I really dig the profiles and the social networking options they’ve added. Like the groups and ability to change the users profile colors and style is really cool in my opinion.

Well it’s 23*F here, the snow is blowing so hard, it’s horizontal.. We have a nice dinner and a play scheduled for tonight, I hope where able to see enough to drive

Happy Holidays everyone!
-Brandon

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I’ve decided to use the WP Blog on the homepage of vBulletin Setup again. Thankfully, I still had the database from when we had a blog on the home page a few months ago. We’ve added a custom style, and I’m buying a few more which I’ll be sharing with everyone. With a link in the footer ofcourse

I look forward to developing the blog again, we were getting some decent traffic from the home page when we had a blog in place before, I’m sure we’ll be able to get re-indexed in a matter of days

There is a hack at vb.org where we can integrate the user DB from vb into the blog, so users wont have to register again to comment. I’ll check it out, but from what I seen, it’s still buggy.

cheers

-Brandon

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I’m going to have a posting contest for the month of April.. I’m a bit late starting, but it’s the first one so it’s still in the testing stages. I hope to have several contest, I have a few styles that I can give away, and maybe even a Free copy of vBSEO.

The winner this time will get a review on this blog.. It has some PR and gets some traffic.. I haven’t had time to promote the blog yet, but this will be the start of some heavy promotions for the blog including adding some custom pages.. You may have seen one vBulletin SEO Optimization, I still have a good hour to finish that page and I’ve thought of 3 or 4 others that would help with some common questions that I’ve seen asked about basic vBulletin SEO.
Anyways, just a little update.. Will be doing some major work to this blog in the next few weeks.

cheers
-Bs

ps. as always, your welcome to Discuss this in the forums

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