Vbulletin 5 and SEO it is horrible, why and how to fix it?

[fionix]

Maybe he want's to help, then I don't need this guys help! it is no help what so ever.

[fionix]

As I said, you just want to hear your self and you only write what you want, don't read what the problem is here!!

You said:

How the hell should that matter if the forum / VBULLETIN...

[fionix]

Are these forums?

[fionix]

Here for your wisedom: Are meta descriptions important for SEO ? Does google read them ?

Not a factor for SEO but important for better description in search engine results, usually you want to have nice

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[fionix]

TOTAL NONSENS - why did you reply to this thread you don't get it, do you.. Some of the largest forums including Vbulletin, Webhostingtalk, DigitalPoint and the list continues are all getting the meta...

[fionix]

Yes, you can see the meta description now because I EDITED it as Admin and clicked SAVE so it pulled up.

Here is a link: http://www.offshorecorptalk.com/foru...any-formation-...

[fionix]

okay... first part is clear so this is a problem and I have to go through more than 17000 pages to edit the META DESCRIPTION. Thanks for this information, andway to make this as an auto process or something?...

[fionix]

You don't get it or you don't want right? Who is asking for Meta Keywords and Meta Tags? I speak about META DESCRIPTION do you want to "fool" anyone and tell them that Google also don't care...

[fionix]

I just made a new post to test if this is working, and it is not... at least not always and I can't figure out what makes the Vbulletin script to decide if it put the entire meta description up or just...

[fionix]

btw... is there any function in the Admin where you can ask Vbulletin script to re generate the meta description of each topic? Maybe this will help? I moved the forum from one domain to another on the...

[fionix]

The problem is that I just have been through 110 topics and manually edit each of them to get Vbulletin to understand that it has to take the first line of the message.. some topics there are no problems...

[fionix]

I have been using a lot of SEO tools and one of them (used by thousands) is Screaming Frog which spiders through the entire forum and pulls up the SEO settings i.e. meta description and meta title.. just...

[fionix]

When you follow OP's description it will work, however, you need to make sure to run the TOOLS.PHP after you made the changes. This you do by uploading the install DIR again and then run the script. Once...

[fionix]

update:
I found where to whitelist but then I just changed everything as per OP's post above. The result is now, it redirectrs to the old login (means the login on the old domain) do you know what...

[fionix]

Does someone know if it's really so simpel?

I followed the error info I got when I tried to login to the admincp on the new domain, the error was this:


So I went to the...

[fionix]

Thanks both of you... I entered it in the config.php file but still the error is there. When I disable the path but keep uncommenting the line FILE caching with default location then I don't get an error,...

[fionix]

damn, still not working, I put the entire path in there, /public_html/forum/core/includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php still it does not work! Do you know if this work at all or is it similar to the...

[fionix]

hmm, still same problem, can it be the file permission or directory permission that are not set correcttly to 777 even if I do it through my FTP program?

[fionix]

No I don't, how can I disable it?

[fionix]

Deos someone knows what this means in the config.php file found in /core

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