How bad is "Powered by vBulletin" for SEO?

How bad is it to use a branded version of vBulletin where it says "Powered by vBulletin" for SEO?

It's bad for your long tail SEO, I would recommended to remove it.

But you guys use it in here? You have not bought a branding free license.

I'm talking about the "Powered by vbulletin" that's appear in the forum home page title not vBulletin copyrights, However vBulletin copyrights will not make any problem with search engines because it's a copyrights for your forum software.

I think I have removed that now. Should be fine then.

Yes, P.S : Nice forum

Thanks Marco!

If you want please give me some tips for my forum, like you did here: vBSEO installed a month ago: no results (if some should apply or not apply to my forum)

You still don't use vBSEO Relevant Replacement which is very important to use, I would say replace it with your vBulletin default H1 to avoid the duplicate tags.

I dont understand a thing about Relevant Replacements. I see this section in the vBSEO control panel, but I dont understand what to set there.

Ok, Here's what you will need to do

First set it up from your vbseocp : VB4 RR's?
Then replace it with your default vBulletin H1 : Adding vBulletin RRs in vBulletin 4

That's all you need

Thanks again.

I think I got it right, but where do I set this CSS thing:

h1.relevant_replacement {
font-size: 140% !important;
font-weight: bold;
color: #3e3e3e;
margin-bottom: 3px;
}

p.relevant_replacement {
font-size: 11px;
width: 640px;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}

In CSS Template "Additional.css"

The branding, if it annoys you. Like it did me.
You can replace it with an image, with the same wording on it. I have done that myself.
I have not noticed any impact on hits in all honesty.

Marco, is it possible to see for you if it all is set up correctly now? I changed the other part in the showtread template.

Thanks for the tip Lee.

Hello Daniel,

It's working correctly