vBulletin SEO Optimization Tips

**Ekka** · 08-25-2007, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

I use the forumpath.php file from vbadvanced to find the path

You really aint makin this any easier. LOL

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-25-2007, 01:46 PM

well for 50$ I'll go over all the settings in vboptions, admincp and optimize Everything

for an extra 25$ I'll go over all the vbseo settings..

That's about as easy I can make it ATM

ps. I let you know about this the first time I worked on your site also

**Ekka** · 08-31-2007, 10:27 PM

Well, that's an improvement, board's running faster and pics load faster etc ... friggin ripper, I vouch for that work!

Thanks mate.

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-01-2007, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ekka

Well, that's an improvement, board's running faster and pics load faster etc ... friggin ripper, I vouch for that work!

Thanks mate.

Thanks bud

You're welcome to add a Tesimonial

It will show up on my vB Services page as well

Haniibal‏ · 09-04-2007, 08:55 AM

thinks for this all best site on the world

TheTrust · 09-11-2007, 03:21 PM

Thank you .. i do appriciate it

**too_cool_3** · 10-02-2007, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

Optimizing vBulletin for SEO and Server load will help your overall performance.
Here are a few tips I've found.
...

3. Restrict Search Engine Crawling

Those spiders..they index your content, but there are always places that you don't want or need them to go.
To restrict the pesky critters to only eating up your Content, do the following.

In your root (public_html) directory, upload the following robots.txt::

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php

Remove any lines that you WANT the spiders to see.. if you want them to crawl the Calendar, take out Disallow: /forums/calendar.php.

I'm about to do this trick but I'm just wondering, apart from the Calander, is there any other files I should omit, that I WANT the spiders to see?
Thanks
-Marc

**eric** · 10-03-2007, 05:49 AM

btw do adapt the path if you didn't install your forum in a subfolder of your domain name or it won't work.
I saw in the past a few having that problem.

**too_cool_3** · 10-03-2007, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eric

btw do adapt the path if you didn't install your forum in a subfolder of your domain name or it won't work.
I saw in the past a few having that problem.

what do u mean adapt the path? i did not install my forum into a sub folder, it is directly on the root of my server. do I have to modify anything in the robots.txt file?
Also, as I'm still curious if there is any files that i WANT the spider to be able to crawl other then the already mentioned calender???
thanks

if you mean remove /forum/ then yes, I did that so its just ajax.php attachments.php etc. I just need to know which files if any I want the crawlers to be able to see therefore remove them from the robot.txt

**eric** · 10-03-2007, 10:07 AM

indeed in your case you have to remove the forums since your forum is top level. Some forget this and then wonder why it doesn't work

On my forum I did also remove the calendar restriction since I want it to be indexed, it isn't a b('day calendar but an event calendar... other lines won't bring much to be indexed according me. They lead to pages or functions from vb that are nill search engine wise.

**lazserus** · 10-24-2007, 12:10 PM

Quote:

8. Turn on fulltext searching

Go to your AdminCP and expand the vBulletin Options menu
Select Search Type.
Set "Empty postindex and word tables?" to Yes.
Click Submit.

I'm running 3.6.8 and I don't see this option. Where exactly is it located?

**Yogesh Sarkar** · 10-24-2007, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

Message Searching Options > Automatic Similar Thread Search > yes

I have just disabled this setting in my forum, do people actually use the similar threads option while viewing forum?

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-24-2007, 04:50 PM

I have before, it also helps with inner linking.

**lazserus** · 10-24-2007, 04:57 PM

*pouts* Where is the setting? This looks to be old vB settings. Helpies?

10-24-2007, 05:03 PM

go to vBulletin options > Message searching options

Should still be there.

**Yogesh Sarkar** · 10-24-2007, 05:14 PM

Its not there!

**lazserus** · 10-24-2007, 05:38 PM

Agreed! Not there.

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-24-2007, 06:55 PM

yes it is

vboptions > Message Searching Options > Automatic Similar Thread Search

**lazserus** · 10-26-2007, 12:44 PM

I'm blind...found everything.

Amendment
OK, I have run into something a little odd. I moved all images to the file system, but some of them are no longer showing up. I updated all of the counters, but none of the avatars are showing and some of my buttons vanished. I have checked via ftp and verified that all of the images were transfered to the file system. Am I missing a step? I read the instructions on the first page three times to ensure I haven't missed anything.

It's a good thing I'm doing all of this long before I open my forums.

11-12-2007, 08:09 PM

Hello
I'want all page in my site change too HTML
what do?
please give me teach

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-12-2007, 08:40 PM

buy vBulletin SEO by vBSEO

**cajunboy2208** · 11-23-2007, 08:35 PM

About the whole gzip thing.
I send a message to my server, and this is what was replied.

Quote:

Jeremy,

mod_gzip is not configured on the server, but you can achieve the same thing by using PHP. Create a php.ini file in your public_html directory and copy and paste this in there with a less-symbol before the first question mark, and a greater-than symbol after the second question mark:

? ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?

Please let us know if that works out for you.

Regards,

Nick

Now... will this help? And then change it to no and 0?

Or should I just leave my settings as is? Which is yes and 1

**cajunboy2208** · 11-26-2007, 03:13 PM

Anyone want to answer?

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-26-2007, 06:29 PM

You should use the link I posted to see if gzip is enabled on the server

and if it is, set the vb gzip option to 0.

**cajunboy2208** · 11-27-2007, 09:25 AM

I already did.
gzip is not configured on the server as he stated in the reply.
I was wondering if what he said
I should try, and then go back and do the no and 0 thing

**cajunboy2208** · 12-08-2007, 06:58 PM

Sigh
Support has slacked big time since a few months ago.
Where is it all at?

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-09-2007, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cajunboy2208

Sigh
Support has slacked big time since a few months ago.
Where is it all at?

Where is what all at ?

**cajunboy2208** · 12-11-2007, 04:21 PM

The support.
I've asked help on like 3 things, but... I got 0 responses basically.
Hope things kick back up. You have gotten busier Brandon, good for you... but it really hurts VBS.
=(

**Brandon Sheley** · 12-11-2007, 04:43 PM

Maybe if you made a new thread for each question it would help.

About the gzip, I've already answered this.. Check the link I posted in this thread and increase the number until the performance goes down

**CMartucci** · 12-15-2007, 08:30 AM

Quote:

3. Restrict Search Engine Crawling

Those spiders..they index your content, but there are always places that you don't want or need them to go.
To restrict the pesky critters to only eating up your Content, do the following.

In your root (public_html) directory, upload the following robots.txt::

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php

Remove any lines that you WANT the spiders to see.. if you want them to crawl the Calendar, take out Disallow: /forums/calendar.php.

I don't think this is working for me. I noticed that bots were still doing things like "Searching Forums". Then I realized I don't have "/forums" in my URL. So I got rid of that so it just says "Disallow: /ajax.php". I uploaded the .txt file to my public directory, but still, I think bots are going places I don't think they should be. Any ideas?