Give me some VBSEO tips..

Hey all,

About to take the plunge into the VBSEO world once the VBulletin V4 / VBSEO 3.5 releases are ready and as i am new to this i would like some Quality feedback so that i don't stuff up my upcoming project that i has spent some time developing.

I have installed VBSEO 3.1 / 3.2 for a client a while back but did not pay all that much attention :( as he wanted to take care of things his way

I hope a few of you can give me some feedback that will help my site succeed, as i really am stressing about this for some reason, i have experience installing scripts are playing around on webhosts so i should be ok, i just don't want to make any fundamental mistakes that will cost me down the track.

#1 whats the best method to install VBSEO... a clean install of VBulletin... then install VBSEO... Then create the forum topics ?

#2 would i be best setting the site to "Nofollow" would this help with rankings down the track ? i am sure this would deter some serial spammers from posting on my site.

#3 This new Google Caffeine update, will this effect VBSEO in anyway or can you see it being a good thing ?

Thanks in advanced if anyone can clear a few of those things up for me and also provide any extra tips & tricks that i can implement to help my forums do well.

Cheers

Hello Darren,

1. It does not matter the order, however, we recommend it from day 1 that way you do not have to suffer with the re-indexing process from search engines.

2. Not quite sure I understand the question, but you can add nofollows to outbound links as well as inbound.

3. I will look into this.

I hope some of this was helpful to you.

1) as Mike suggests, it doesn't matter, so long as vb is installed first, then vbseo (as vbseo requires vb to install on top of). But yes, the sooner the better. if you never OFFER duplicate urls, they won't get indexed.

2) Nofollow's have recently changed from google. Today, i would suggest leaving nofollows OFF, and instead, install some spam detection/mod to keep your board clean.

3) Caffeine is still a hype product at this point. We haven't had any solid research on it yet. Matt Cutt's released this video on it. YouTube - Matt Cutts Explains Caffeine Update