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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Your title tag is one of the most important aspects of Search Engine Optimisation. It tells a Search Engine exactly what the page contains, so you obviously want to target that to your most important search keywords. Here are three things you can do to maximise your title tag with vBulletin.

1. Remove “powered by vBulletin” from your titles

This one’s an oldie but a goodie, who wants to give vBulletin some of your precious title tag juice? Not me! Don’t worry, this is perfectly in line with the vBulletin TOS.

  1. Open up your forum’s control panel.
  2. Go to Language & Phrases > Search in Phrases
  3. In the search box, enter x_powered_by_vbulletin, and make sure “Search in…” is set to Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name.
  4. Edit the phrase, and change it from {1} - Powered by vBulletin to just simply {1}
  5. Save the phrase!

2. Change your FORUMHOME title tag.

On my blogging forum, I managed to get to #11 on Google by simply editing the <title> tag in my FORUMHOME to better represent the search terms I wanted to target for.

  1. Open the Style Manager in your Control Panel.
  2. Expand the Style you want to work with, and then expand the “Forum Home Templates”, finally choosing to edit the FORUMHOME template.
  3. Find the <title> tag and edit the text inside of it to better reflect the tags you want to target for.

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Its time for the first ever National SEO Month to start April 1st. Bloggers and webmasters from all around the world will be joining forces with one goal in mind. Search Engine Domination. NaSEOMo begs the question, “What would happen to your site, if you did one small SEO friendly task a day for 30 days? Could you make a significant leap up the search engine results in your niche? Then, what would happen if you had the support and encouragement of your web colleagues along the way? Do you think that would help you achieve your goal?”

Thats exactly what the particpants of NaSEOMo will be doing. Over at SEOvB we’ve decided to particpate in this as a test to see the results. We encourage you to particpate too and you can register at the offical NaSEOMo website for free of course.

Did I also mention there will be prizes given away? And everyone from SEO Noobs to Gurus will be competing in this event. You will be recieving tips every day for the whole month of april for “Set it and forget it” seo tactics. As well as inspirational search engine optimization readings to keep you motivated along the way.

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Yup, you read it correct.

You can now buy vBSEO brand free for $117 extra.

Here is a short excerpt from the announcement thread.

Branding Removal Option Available
On our purchase page, you will now see that we have a branding removal option.

Basically, those who select this option are permitted to remove the vBSEO copyright notice from their forums.

For those of you who require this feature, we are pleased to make it available to you now.

vBSEO has thousands of customers all over the world, speaking over 23 different languages! vBulletin forum admins all over the world are clearly aware that vBSEO is the right choice for their vBulletin SEO solution.

While we like to think of the vBSEO copyright as a “badge of honor” and hope that many of you choose to keep it in place, we respect your wishes to have a removal option available. Request granted.

vBSEO Branding Removal Option - Overview

 

 

Now I obviously wont be adding the branding free to our board, unless I do the vBulletin one as well. I know many admins have been asking for this tho, I hope this will really help ppl understand how well vBSEO can help their sites.

 

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If you need help setting up your vBulletin board, then you have found the right website. We specialize in setting up or upgrading your vBulletin board, we also can tweak your site to optimize your SEO. We have been installing and customizing the vBulletin script for years now. We offer some great SEO tips in our forum already, and can customize the tweaks for your niche and your forum agenda.

We are still adding content for this website and plan to be officially open September 1st. Your welcome to look around and even sign up, Registration is free.

-Brandon

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