vBulletin SEO Optimization Tips

Ekka

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#61 08-25-2007, 03:44 PM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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

You really aint makin this any easier. LOL

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#62 08-25-2007, 03:46 PM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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

Thanks mate.

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#64 09-01-2007, 08:04 PM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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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 ;)

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#65 09-04-2007, 10:55 AM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

thinks for this all best site on the world

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

Thank you .. i do appriciate it

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#67 10-02-2007, 12:10 PM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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Optimizing vBulletin for SEO and Server load will help your overall performance.
Here are a few tips I've found.
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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
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#68 10-03-2007, 07:49 AM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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.

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#69 10-03-2007, 08:29 AM

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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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

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Re: vBulletin Optimisation Tips

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.

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