Do you use vBSEO on your forums and what do you think of it?

Yes, and I'm quite pleased with it so far. It's very thorough in writing URL's, but it offers other features as well which you won't find anywhere else (the LinkBack feature is very very cool!).

The price point is a little steep IMO, but still a good product.

And I know that since we're paying customers and they are a company, the product will continue to be developed and updated. With something like URL's which just need to work all the time -- I'm more comfortable using a commercial product then using a free alternative (which, at this time, do not match up anyway).

i use an extremly modified version of a free one that is very similar to vbseo... dont think it works aswell but did take alot of work getting away from the poor free versions. might buy vbseo in the future as my custom one has the odd hitch here and there or I cant get it to do what I want

i just prefer nice named pages instead of .php?blargh=sgfdg :D

@peterska2: You could use vBSEO to just rename the forums f29.html, it isn't required to do forum-title/ or whatever ;)

The nicest thing with these URL-rewriters is that they kill the duplicate content. Each vB page has like 5 different URLs to get to the same spot which is annoying and bad for SEO.

But back on topic: vBSEO does offer other features you might want to check out ;)

Kerry-Anne has a good point, but so does Chroder.. the price is a bit steep right now. Especially for vBFans for example: 5+ sites.. that's a lot of cash to put down .. does it match up against the income it will generate? I have my doubts right now.

vbseo costs more than 2 years of my hosting...still way too expensive

3 months of ad revenue sounds cheap though :P

I'm holding off on a decisions until I see more feedback from "big" forums.

No. Not worth it in my opinion.

I have been using it for about a month and a half. My SERPS went down a bit at first but now things are booming. Before installing I was only getting about 200 SE's a day. Now it is between 600 and 1100 hundred spidering daily. So I am starting to see improvement. It seemed like the improvement came when the old links stared getting replaced by the new ones in google.

Anyway, I am happy with it for that plus all the other cool stuff it does. As far as cost, I put up an affiliate link and have had 6 sales so I guess it was free. ;)

6 sales? Lucky :) I've got one, and that was after a friend decided he wanted to try it out.

What I want to know is if forum ID numbers matter for recycling.

Instead of deleting a forum, and creating a new one, ya know. If a SE has a link showing up as /forumdisplay.php?ID=27, and you rename it, will it be better?

If you rename a forum the ID stays the same; so it matters little to a SE other then the <title>'s and such changing (which may alter your rankings though not by any huge amount).

I have used it since almost the beginning of my site, so I don't have any comparisons for TheFloorPro.com. I do know that other forums I have had for the same amount of time didn't have nearly as many spider visits and my adsense numbers were practically non-existent (they ain't very good now, but at least there's numbers to count).

I hear about the price of it all the time. It's not a problem for me. I compare it to what a medium priced SEO professional would charge me to do the same thing and I come out way ahead with vBSEO.

Then I compare it with what I could learn over a reasonable period, whether I might enjoy spending my time doing it and how many hours I would need to invest of my time to do what vBSEO has done for less than 150.00. I make better money than that doing what I do best, so I think the cost is well justified. I might not think so if I was a struggling student or on a allowance or had a low end job. None of that applies to me and this SEO solution, including the relatively low cost is exactly what I need.

I'll worry about the return on my investment when I have given the product time to do its job and the size and traffic of my site indicates I should be making more than I am. It's not just about the revenue it should help generate. There's much more to vBSEO than that.

R'gards,

Jim

I like vBSEO as it carries lot of good features and bundled with many other things. I use it at two of my forums now.

I got my license for free, so I can't complain. ;)

i want a free license.. gimmie yours :P

how long it will take to index by search engines? how about zoints seo?

No, but i really wonder because when i used Zoints SEO, i had alot more pages indexed.

But i really think vBSEO is way over-priced, and i would likely use it if the price was more reasonable...

Yes for few sites we have vbseo installed since most of the features to optmize and manage vbulletin are easily available.

for other sites those are still running without vbseo and ranking well.

how long it will take to index by search engines? how about zoints seo?

1-3 months usually to see any results..

Zoints SEO has shown good results on many sites...

The price is overwhelming! Also the fact that it may work on your server. Sp, you buy it, it doesn't work so you've just wasted money.

I don't and I won't.