vBSEO Feature Matrix

vBSEO 3.5 for vBulletin 4 (also compatible with vBulletin v.3.x) offers over 100 SEO-related options and nearly limitless configuration settings for all areas of your community, including groups, blogs, albums, all forum page types, custom pages, and other plugins/addons. Below are a number of highlighted features available in vBSEO 3.5 and vBulletin 4.

URLs

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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Threads)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Member Profiles)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (CMS)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Blogs)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Albums)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Social Groups)
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• • Keyword-friendly URLs (Thread Attachments & Images)
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• • 301 Redirect Old Standard URLs
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• • 301 Redirect Old Non-Standard URLs
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• • Permalinks (Posts)
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• • Permalinks (User Profiles)
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• • Permalinks (User Albums)
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• • Permalinks (Blogs)
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• • Permalinks (Social Group Discussions)
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• • Permalinks (Social Group Pictures)
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• • Stop-word Filter for URLs (optional)
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    Allows Meaningful Content Relevant URLs in any Language

    Character Replacements for URLs
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    Limit Keyword-friendly URL length.

    Word Limit for URLs
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Architecture

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    Think of it as folders for your content. Forums become folders holding the actual threads, creating a logical structure of relevant content segmented by topic.

    Hierarchic URL Structure
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    Application level canonicalization (AKA Link Consensus), promotes greater crawling efficiency, optimized external links, and maximized link value assignment.

    100% Canonical Structure
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    Rewrite URLs so that the original content is linked from within the archives, providing an excellent HTML sitemap linking to your forum's deep content.

    Reformat Archive into an HTML Sitemap
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    By default, the archive links are displayed from oldest to newest. This feature will invert the display order (display newest theads first), creating a hierarchical structure that links more prominently to the freshest content.

    Invert Archive Thread Display Order
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    Redirect bots and users to your homepage for deleted content, or display a generic NOT FOUND message to expedite the removal of (non-existing) content from search engine indexes.

    Custom 404 Page Support
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    Keep all link weight on one page (ie. forces /index.php or /index.php? to /)

    Homepage Aliases
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• • Site-wide rel="canonical" implementation
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    Use the rel="nofollow" attribute to specify those pages that you don't want the Search Engines to follow.

    Site-wide rel="nofollow" for non-canonical links
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    As above, but at a page-specific level.

    Granular rel="nofollow" control for internal pages
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Extensibility

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    Easily rewrite URLs in 3rd party applications or non-vBulletin content.

    Custom Rewrite Rules (CRR)
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    Easily set 301 redirects when moving content, without having to edit .htaccess files.

    Custom Redirects
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    Enables 3rd party product developers to integrate vBSEO functionality into their extensions and plugins.

    Functions for Extensibility (for Developers)
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Logging & Tracking

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• • Google Analytics Integration
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    With the vBSEO Sitemap Generator (separate product, free!), ability to log bot traffic/hits.

    Log Search Engine Spiders
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• • Tracking External Link Clicks
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    Allows you to track how far users are getting in your registration process and what are the hurdles to registration.

    Funnel Analytics for Member Registrations
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    This is an integration feature for Google Analytics, providing you with the ability to segment and view statistics by usergroup. Visitors to your forum will be tracked and segmented into Guest and Member groups. This allows you to compare the difference in activity between the two groups.

    Basic Segmentation Tracking
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    Allows you to track and segment your traffic into every different user group available on your forum. View stats specifically for your guests, members, moderators, customers, and every other primary user group.

    Enhanced Segmentation Tracking
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HTML

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    Maximize Content-to-Code ratio by converting non-relevant HTML areas to Javascript.

    Virtual HTML Display
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    Create relevant, keyword-rich anchor text for internal links.

    Links Anchor Text Replacement (Internal)
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    Create relevant, keyword-rich anchor text for outgoing links.

    Links Anchor Text Replacement (External)
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    Replaces default vBulletin meta information with content relevant descriptions and keywords for threads, posts, profiles, etc. Note: Meta Tags carry little weight in Search Engine Optimization.

    Dynamic Meta Tags
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    Configurable for common abbreviations on your forum to expand to the true word, increasing relevancy for your targeted keywords.

    Acronym Expansion (in Content)
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    Same as above for URLs.

    Acronym Expansion (in URLs)
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    Bots are Guests. Cleaning up information only valuable to members increases relevancy for the remaining content. Options for removing the last post column, last post link, forum jump, thread preview text, DHTML member drop downs, and removing new post links in favor of the true URL.

    Guest Visitor Conditionals
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• • Direct Links to True Target (removes redirects)
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    Increase content-to-code ratio and increase page load/render speed

    Cleanup HTML
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    Increases page load/render speed.

    Image dimensions
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Linkbacks

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    Connects your forum to the blogosphere, bringing highly targeted traffic to individual threads. Instantly notifies you when there is a discussion elsewhere on the net related to one of your threads via vBSEO's own REFBACKS. More info: http://www.vbseo.com/linkbacks/

    Full Pingback/Trackback/Refback System
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    Drive traffic to your website by automatically pinging blog services like Technorati.

    XMLRPC ping system
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• • Social Bookmarking (Per Thread)
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• • Social Bookmarking (Per Post)
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• • Non-English Character Replacement
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Monetization

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    Google Adsense targeting tags are used to identify those sections on a page that are most relevant to the page's content, thereby helping to improve the relevancy of the AdSense ads that are displayed.

    Google Adsense targeting tags
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