Am I making the most of VBSEO?

Hi all,

I am not sure that I am getting the full benefit from VBSEO. Sure, I see a great deal of traffic to my site (c5,000 uniques per day) but my keywords positioning and SERPS is, to be honest, very poor.

I would really like an expert to look at my site, my VBSEO settings etc.... and advise on changes that will improve things for me.

My site is here: www.pchelpforum.com

If you think you can dramatically change (increase) my traffic then I would be open to discuss payment/profit sharing.

Thank you for your time.

How does your long tail look?
Measuring Your Long Tail - vBulletin SEO Forums

Have you seen this thread?
Your Site Review - Stuff to Do First

Thanks, I'll look at those links and report back

Ok, I don't know what this indicates...?

Originally Posted by Lazer

Ok, I don't know what this indicates...?

Do you have specific questions?

It is showing that you get some pretty good traffic for your main keywords.

My responses to the "optimization thread"

Are you running the latest release of vBSEO?

Yes

Did you replace showpost links with Permalinks?

Yes

Are you using our Archive Footer Links? How many are there?

I prefer not to use them
Did you try out our Relevant Replacements?


I already use RR’s

Did you try out Custom Rewrite Rules?


Yes

Have you checked for possible vBSEO performance optimizations?


I have read and implemented many of these tweaks

Is your vBSEO Sitemap Installed and Working?


Yes

Have you considered our vBSEO Conditional Signatures plugin?


I am using this plugin

Are you using a robots.txt file?


Yes

Do you have a customized template?


I have a very nice unique template


Is your template graphic heavy? Have you considered a more lightweight template?


No

Do you have a professional logo?


Yes, I have a unique and striking logo

Are you avoiding using Flash for your homepage? If you didn't, did you make sure there are text links into your site?


I do not use flash

Did you remove "Powered by vBulletin" yet?


Yes
Did you validate your forum HTML to check for errors?


There are 29 errors on my homepage – I do not have the skills to clean them up


Did you block member profile pages?


I do not block profile pages

Is it easy to find your "Forum" link and navigation to other important areas on your site?


Yes

Did you remove your "forum title" from the page title of sub-forum and thread display pages?


Yes

Do you work hard to identify the best keywords for your forum titles and description?


I think so – it may be an area that I need assistance with..but I don’t think so.

Did you rewrite your default forum welcome message, to customize it for your forum theme and include valuable keywords?


Yes

Are you running Google Webmaster Tools? Are you free from errors?


Yes and yes

Do you run Google Analytics? Are you monitoring your SEO long tail growth?


I don’t fully understand this concept yet but have submitted a screenshot from GA above and will be happy to provide information (privately) upon request.

Are you actively building links to your site?


Yes

Seems like you are setup very well.

Long tail is really simple. It is the # of unique keywords delivering traffic to your site.
Measuring Your Long Tail - vBulletin SEO Forums

Thank you.

What I need to do make the keywords that I want, to work for me. I am not happy with the keywords I have shown you in GA as I personally don't think ppl would search for "pc help forum" or "pchelpforum" - in fact, apart from specific PC errors, I think they would be far more likely to search for "free pc help" "pc help" "free tech support" etc....and my SERPS for those keywords are very poor. I really need to know how to make those keywords/phrases my top results in GA.

If you want to rank for specific terms you have to (1) build great content focused on those terms, and (2) actively build links to those pages.

With vBSEO, we focus primarily on the search long tail, harnessing traffic from 1000s of terms that occur naturally within your user generated content.

build great content focused on those terms

I have the content - 70,000+ pages indexed in Google, 50,000+ pages indexed in Yahoo and 12,000+ pages indexed in MSN. Those pages are probably being visited for their content but how would I go about isolating the keywords/phrases that I indicated above for my forum homepage?

Check out:
Strategy for Optimizing Keywords in Your vBulletin Forum Title and Descriptions

Thanks Joe, will do.