Powered by vBulletin in title tag [how to remove]

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-30-2006, 11:34 PM

Editing the "powered by vBulletin" phrases is something I recommend to every forum owner.
This phrase is showing up in the title tag of every page of your forum.
It's essential in SEO'ing your vBulletin forum..

How to Remove the "- Powered by vBulletin" in page title tags

Go to your ADMINCP> Language & Phrases> Search in Phrases

In your Phrases Search for: x_powered_by_vbulletin (be sure to choose to search by Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name)

Edit the phrase. Simply change it from {1} - Powered by vBulletin

to {1}

SO your just deleting - Powered by vBulletin

**jw00dy** · 10-17-2006, 01:33 AM

Great tip. Thanks

eseong · 10-29-2006, 12:24 AM

how to overwrite the vbulletin ?

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-29-2006, 12:55 AM

looks like you took care of it on your site alreaedy

**RedMatrix** · 11-04-2006, 04:40 AM

Not only can you remove it, you can also change it to include some more key words. On my forum, our best key word is not in our domain name, so I put it in the - Powered by.. section of the title.

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-04-2006, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedMatrix

Not only can you remove it, you can also change it to include some more key words. On my forum, our best key word is not in our domain name, so I put it in the - Powered by.. section of the title.

you just want to be careful when doing this.

**El Fuego** · 11-16-2006, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

you just want to be careful when doing this.

What do you want to be careful about? What are the problems associated with changing this information? :1eek:

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-16-2006, 06:02 PM

you don't want to make google think your "keyword stuffing"

**henry_nguyen** · 02-18-2007, 11:01 PM

finally here is a good tip that i can use

thnks brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-18-2007, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by henry_nguyen

finally here is a good tip that i can use

thnks brandon

np

btw, we have this "thanks" button.. so if you ever have a post that you just want to say "thanks" for.. We'd rather you used the button, and save the post for something of quality

Not trying to pick on ya, we just try to maintain this so the post are better and we don't have 300 post that are " great stuff, thanks for sharing"

**wahm** · 05-03-2007, 07:11 PM

DONE! Thanks Brandon!!! I spent awhile trying to figure that one out before giving up.

Thanks again!

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-03-2007, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wahm

DONE! Thanks Brandon!!! I spent awhile trying to figure that one out before giving up.

Thanks again!

glad we could be of some help

**RedMatrix** · 05-06-2007, 11:07 AM

Hey, didn't I put one of these up somewhere?

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-06-2007, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedMatrix

Hey, didn't I put one of these up somewhere?

ya, but it was well after I posted this one :-"

**RedMatrix** · 05-06-2007, 11:24 AM

I know. Duh!

**karel1985** · 05-27-2007, 01:54 PM

great tips

looks better now (also for spiders)

grtz karel

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-27-2007, 09:02 PM

ya, I wish vBulletin removed this with the default install

Oh well, just means those of us who know about it will get better ranking

**Fireproof** · 05-29-2007, 08:09 PM

Nice tip.

Followup question: It works when I'm in my clutchfitness.com/forums part of the site. But I am using vbAdvanced, and when I go to the home page, it just has my site name - no powered by vbulletin or anything, and it didn't pick up the short description I just edited.

Do you know how I might change that?

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-29-2007, 08:16 PM

you can edit your vba page and add keywords and a description for it

**PropertyHogs** · 05-30-2007, 05:13 PM

Too easy once you know how. Thanks!

**joshbond** · 07-15-2007, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

This probably isn't something we'll do here, because the nature of the site, but it's a good idea for those who are not vBulletin resource sites.

How to Remove the "- Powered by vBulletin" in page title tags

Go to your ADMINCP> Language & Phrases> Search in Phrases

In your Phrases Search for: x_powered_by_vbulletin (be sure to choose to search by Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name)

Edit the phrase. Simply change it from {1} - Powered by vBulletin

to {1}

SO your just deleting - Powered by vBulletin

I'm having a hard time editing this. When I do a search for it and it comes up, I press the "edit" button and then it takes me to a page that only has one field to write in and it says something about "translation" I tried putting the {1} in there but it just created another "translated" version of the x_powered_by_vbulletin
so then I had 2 of them. I went back and deleted the new one that I'd made but I'd still like to be able to do this customization.

edit:
here is a screenshot

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-15-2007, 07:41 PM

Did the title bar change when you had 2 ?

just put

{1}

in that box and hit save

**joshbond** · 07-15-2007, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

Did the title bar change when you had 2 ?

just put

{1}

in that box and hit save

ok, I did that.

here is a screen shot of it now when I do a search for that term. Is this normal? It seems like it didn't "edit" it but instead, created a new one.

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-15-2007, 08:47 PM

yup, you should be good.. what is the url ?

**joshbond** · 07-15-2007, 09:09 PM

Photochopz.com - Photoshop forum and contests

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-15-2007, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joshbond

Photochopz.com - Photoshop forum and contests

Looks like you got it.

**OS Master** · 08-01-2007, 05:02 PM

Be careful when editing. According to Brand Free Licence - Prohibits saying Site is 'Powered By' Something? - vBulletin Community Forum, you can't put "Powered by [Something Else]" since that indicates the software is not powered by vBulletin.

So it's okay to remove the "Powered by vBulletin" part but it's not okay to put "Powered by [Something Else]".

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2007, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OS Master

Be careful when editing. According to Brand Free Licence - Prohibits saying Site is 'Powered By' Something? - vBulletin Community Forum, you can't put "Powered by [Something Else]" since that indicates the software is not powered by vBulletin.

So it's okay to remove the "Powered by vBulletin" part but it's not okay to put "Powered by [Something Else]".

:rofl: ya, you wouldn't want to make is say "Powered by IPB"

**OS Master** · 08-01-2007, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

:rofl: ya, you wouldn't want to make is say "Powered by IPB"

Yeah. "Powered by MyBB" would be even worse. I'm not making fun of it, it's just that most vBulletin owners make fun of it. They think it's a vBulletin wannabe. I think it's a great free software, but vBulletin's just better overall in my opinion.

And really I understand why you would shouldn't put "Powered by [Something Else]" in the title of your forum. Jelsoft spent years and years perfecting vBulletin. And you decided to say that it is powered by something else?

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2007, 09:03 PM

Just remove it all together

It's best for SEO and that's all I need