SEO w/ vB 3.5.1 [Archive] - Forum University

lauhde

11-02-2005, 04:55 PM

How well does that new vB 3.5(.1) work in SEO wise?

Is there any recommended hacks/add-ons or should it work straight from the box?

adb22791

11-02-2005, 05:00 PM

You can find a hack for SEO, but my forum got attacked this afternoon by Yahoo Slurp Spiders, and MSN bots find me pretty hot too, so I don't think its neccessary. I had 3 Yahoo Bots on, and this forum is only 1 and a half months old :)!

lauhde

11-02-2005, 05:45 PM

Ach so... so no additional things aren't necessary?

Excellent.. I'm hoping I find a suitable timeframe to upgrade to 3.5.1 in next 2 weeks. Yey.

Tyler

11-02-2005, 07:22 PM

Personally I never used SEO hack until I upgraded to 3.5. Now, I'm in love with it, not only does it help the SEO you get these nice, and clean URLs. I would install it without a doubt in my mind now, provided that you install the WOL fix as well.

Jan

11-03-2005, 01:01 AM

http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/ was upgraded to 3.5.1 earlier today and as I write this, there are 30 members and 440 guests online (mostly spiders):google: So I guess that is pretty quick work :yippee:

Floris

11-13-2005, 09:36 AM

Known bots do not have a session hash, so the pages are spidered quite well. It works. No worries :)

vB also has archive/ to make it easier for crawling bots to get the content.

And we're improving the nofollow elements on links that bots shouldn't follow (to avoid 'permission denied' pages being indexed).

With version 2 of vBulletin, phpBB was in the lead with google index for the term phpBB vs vBulletin

now after version 3
about 41,700,000 for vbulletin

about 26,600,000 for phpbb
about 11,900,000 for ubb
about 7,870,000 for ipb / about 18,300,000 for invision
about 2,470,000 for wbb