Updating vBulletin Skins

This is the part of updating a vBulletin forum that I never look forward too. I seen a tool posted in the forums called WinMerge, I can see how it would be helpful updating skins if I had another monitor of just more desktop space.

I’ll quickly go over what I do to update a vBulletin skin and the templates, maybe it well help a few out who don’t have a clue what’s involved in updating their skins. If anyone has a better way to update a style, or maybe some tips using WinMerge or another application, please share with us.

Okay, here goes…

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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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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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This is the time of season that someone like myself loves. Updates are a money maker for anyone looking to offer vBulletin Work and styles updates. If you are looking for vBulletin work or would like a place to check on any request being posted, please check out the “Would you like to make money doing vBulletin work” thread in the forums.

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Tips on Writing an Effective Newsletter

I saw a request in the forums for a little tutorial on writing an effective newsletter, so I thought I would give it a shot.

I’ll spend a day or two writing and putting together the pieces our vBulletinSetup Newsletter. Articles and written and rewritten after thought of the whole layout may change with some event or special that we have to get out in the newsletter. I try to remove all spelling and grammatical errors and usually try to get a staff member or two to look over it before posting it live. Our newsletter page is a little out of alignment at the moment, but in the emails they look great. I guess I’ll just start listing off some tips and we’ll see how this goes.

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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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Hello all again. I thought today I would write about how one can use Google Analytics to make more money with your advertising.

If you don,t know by now, Analytics is a free traffic tracking service from Google. It gives you loads of information on where you traffic is coming from, and where it is going. But, it is the best tool for increasing advertising revenue I have ever seen.

But, before we get into that you must learn two terms. The first being bounce rate. The Bounce Rate for a single page is the number of visitors who enter the site at a page and leave within the specified timeout period without viewing another page, divided by the total number of visitors who entered the site at that page. In contrast, the Bounce Rate for a website is the number of web site visitors who visit only a single page of a website per session divided by the total number of website visits. Basically it tells you which pages on your site keep your traffic flowing. The lower the bounce rate, the better the page is at keeping people’s interest in your site.

The second term which I am sure everyone knows is Unique Visits. A Unique Visit presents a single, unique viewer who has visited a web site within a specified time period. Now that you know what they are, lets explain how they can help you make more money.

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