Hello everyone,

Yesterday I've bought and installed vBSEO. Installation was very simple and the couple of small error I had were easily fixed by submitting a support ticket and wait a couple of minutes for the solution, very professional... thumbs up!

My knowledge about coding and also about how vBSEO works is very limited. I started my site, FMFormation.net, as a site just for fun but now, 1 year after the start of FMF, we have 22,000 members and we are one of the biggest Football Manager fansites on the net. Because we weren't doing so great on the search engines (whatever keywords I typed in e.a. Google, FMFormation wasn't listed in the first pages or so), I decided to purchase vBSEO to make sure we get what we need, some descent rankings!

But like I said, my knowledge about all these things isn't so great. So I have a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1) I've installed it and only changes 1 or 2 options in the vbseo cp. Could someone take a look at my site and perhaps check if I need to change anything? I did notice that you can't have two sections with the same name or it will screw up the section it's supposed to go to.

2) After installing vBSEO and Google & Yahoo SiteMap Generator, is there anything else I need to do to make sure my site is getting a better place in the search engine rankings? Or will my new urls be added to Google automaticly?

3) I've installed a couple of major hacks for my site. DownloadsII is probably the most important one and also the best feature of FMFormation. FMFormation is famous for it's many downloads hosted. When I check the DownloadsII sections I notice that it doesn't use vBSEO urls. I searched about it on here and found out you need to do some extra work to make sure some hacks are also using vBSEO. Unfortunately, after reading that thread about DownloadsII, I still had no clue how to make it use vBSEO urls. Is there perhaps a tutorial for people with less knowledge about php, coding and vBSEO?


That's pretty much it for now. I hope you don't mind me asking some questions. It was still a big purchase and I want it to be used as optimal as possible.

Many thanks in advance and once again, great job on making vBSEO, it looks great!

Best regards,

Jos "Bozza" Dofferhoff
Founder of FMFormation.net
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