vb seo free, why not?

[roosevelt]

I was wondering why exactly vbulletin doesn't have search engine friendly urls built in. If you see the forum archive, you will notice they have search engine friendly urls. So why not give the same feature for the front-end? vB really should consider this feature!

[Quillz]

It's 2006. Most search engines, like Google, have little trouble indexing vB. And SEO is really only as good as your board's content.

[BamaStangGuy]

It's 2006. Most search engines, like Google, have little trouble indexing vB. And SEO is really only as good as your board's content.

So what? So they index the pages. Duh no one is saying they don't do this. The benefit of static urls is they are cleaner and allow the possibility to put keywords in there.

[Scott MacVicar]

SEO updates every other week and the archive requires Apache to work properly, we could sit and grease up the rest of the board with this snake oil but rather than spend weeks if not months on that we'd rather do more constructive things.

SEO is a very dynamic industry that changes often as I'm sure those in the industry will agree.

[Quillz]

So what? So they index the pages. Duh no one is saying they don't do this. The benefit of static urls is they are cleaner and allow the possibility to put keywords in there.

Then what would be the point of the archive? I thought that was what it was there for. As to why the front-end doesn't do this, I don't know why.

[Zachery]

SEO updates every other week and the archive requires Apache to work properly, we could sit and grease up the rest of the board with this snake oil but rather than spend weeks if not months on that we'd rather do more constructive things.

SEO is a very dynamic industry that changes often as I'm sure those in the industry will agree.

Human friendly URL's might be nice though. Not nessary for any of the SEO benifits.

[BamaStangGuy]

Then what would be the point of the archive? I thought that was what it was there for. As to why the front-end doesn't do this, I don't know why.

vBulletin already includes an option to redirect the archive to the original thread. IMO that is what the archive is suppose to be used for. More of a sitemap.

[0ptima]

... but rather than spend weeks if not months on that we'd rather do more constructive things.

Like a photo gallery?

[SaN-DeeP]

IMO that is what the archive is suppose to be used for. More of a sitemap.

archive to be used as sitemap :S

[BamaStangGuy]

archive to be used as sitemap :S

Well rename it if you must. But the way that it is setup in vBulletin is not the way it should be used imo. It is not as efficent.

[askloz.com]

because it's not as page heavy, google ranks pages that are extremely light in file size better than those that are heavy.

Plus, there is a lot of junk taken out of the archives which pushes up the prominence of the keyword relevancy factors

Then what would be the point of the archive? I thought that was what it was there for. As to why the front-end doesn't do this, I don't know why.

[askloz.com]

You got a lot of learning to do bud if you want to get a head start in this game of SEO.

Human friendly URL's might be nice though. Not nessary for any of the SEO benifits.

[Vtec44]

Wow old thread! LOL

My forum has never been SEO'ed, and it's still rank extremely high within its respective category. I guess most people want human friendly URL because it's assumed that search engines give priority to URLs that have keywords in them.

[Zachery]

If all of these features are indeed added, you lose the edge over others in your category also using vBulletin but not making specific work of extra SEO work done on your domain.

[jaycob]

Wow old thread! LOL

My forum has never been SEO'ed, and it's still rank extremely high within its respective category. I guess most people want human friendly URL because it's assumed that search engines give priority to URLs that have keywords in them.

agreed, my sites up in the middle of a heap of forums on the first page that all have seo and i dont sometimes i think its over rated vbseo.