Has anybody here ever used a SEO pro? If so how much did they charge and were they any good? The reason I am looking for this is because I want To SEO my forums for a very competive key word

You could try Zoints SEO from vbulletin.org, its free..

Thanks, Timewalk, my friend was looking for seo services to promote his site, and that's what he needs.

What's SEO pro? Is it SEO package?

I bought VBSEO back in January. I am not sure if it really makes a huge difference or not yet. It did make my URLs look better (at least to me.) I started to try the Zoints SEO, but the instructions said that I needed to know something about SEO if I was going to use it. I really had no idea at the time what all SEO-ing entailed. Now that I know it is greatly concerning back-links, it is a lot easier to understand.

Good luck!

Cheers,
BD :D

I havent tried any of those Automated SEO tools since I have heard that sometimes they might overdo it.. If they do overdo it.. You might get banned in Google and never have a pagerank anymore...