SEO

I know you don’t have to because the CMS im using is not part of vbseo/vbulletin but I thought id ask anyway

I have a subdreamer/vbulletin/vbseo setup

Subdreamer displays a few links from my vBulletin forum on the homepage of my site here http://www.djpassion.co.uk

Of course, subdreamer works with vBulletin but they haven't done any work to make sure it works with vBSEO too

My question:

The usernames and forum links on the homepage are not vBSEO’d. They link to the original vBulletin profile and forum threads. Once you click on them your taken to the vBSEO’d URL but isn’t that like a redirect? It would be a shame for the rest of the site to work well but for a few dodgy redirects on the homepage to let it down. Could do my rankings in etc

Any thoughts about this anyone ??

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I'm not sure if this is recommended or not, but i added rel="nofollow" to most the links from my front page to my forums when i was using a different front page.

It seemed to work just fine and my search engine rankings were pretty high.

I suppose that could work. Though I thought if the URLs were vBSEO'd it would have helped more as the homepage would have been linking to the latest 5 posts from the forums which as far as I know search engines loves. Shame I can’t figure out how make the URLs to be vbseo'd.

I can’t see why there isn’t a good CMS about that works with both vBulletin and vBSEO. Do you know if vBulletin are going to make one at all? As far as I know, Subdreamer is the only decent-ish CMS that works with vBulletin. Shame vBSEO and subdreamer can’t work together or something

As for vBadvanaced that’s just a portal type frront page and isn’t nothing like a CMS

I cant wait for the days when there’s a proper CMS about that works with vBulletin/vBSEO

i've seen lots of discussion on this, will vbulletin ever be making a full fledged cms? and read plenty when i was looking for a cms to integrate with my vb users. i almost bought subdreamer, for that matter, but decided not to because of what i read in their forums about seo issues...the developers seemd to kind of poo-poo the idea that seo enhancements were that big of a deal. that was a big turnoff to me and the limited addons I could do for the site was another issue, so i passed ultimately.

currently, i'm using vbdrupal. it integrates drupal with vb for users and sessions, works fine with vbseo, and you can either user drupal plugins for the drupal side seo (which i'm doing) or, if you use the "defaulttangy" vbdrupal theme which pulls your style info from the vb templates, in which case vbseo does your rewrites for you if i understood what others have said correctly. i haven't used that config so i can't speak with authority on it.

however, i would caution drupal is not for the faint of heart. there is a significant learning curve and if you're not comfortable with tech stuff, you probably won't be happy with it. i choose drupal for the cms side because i wanted something that was scalable and could grow with me, and had an active developer community, which it does. so far, i've been pretty happy with the outcome, but i will readily admit it's been a challenging road to learn how to make it do what i want.

good luck!