vBSEO Optimization Tips

Same here, especially once I got APC installed and enabled caching of VBSEO files.

I am using Xcache instead of APC or eaccelerator. Its been good

i use in the (Forum Path) define forum path title bits

PHP Code:

[forum_title]-[forum_id] 


its best chooses to help seo ?

Recently purchased vbseo for my new forum MBA Guys - Forum for MBA, CAT, GMAT & IIM and as all of you I also had read about the vbseo server load issues and so I followed some of the tips mentioned here and here is what was my observation

Before vbSEO was installed I had the server load in range from 0.38 to 0.70
After vbSEO installed the server load are in range from 0.55 to 0.85

So I think this is very much acceptable and so I think if you can use the settings effectively its not a big hit for your forum. Now I would wait to see how it reflects in traffic.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

These tips are primarily for people experiencing slowness on their server.

These are not specifically related to SEO, although a fast server is helpful.

On the other hand, would this slightly lower the SEO if entering an ID near every forum/thread/user/etc? Also, do the long threads associated with using the entire forum path and friendly urls effect SEO?

No using id's will not lower your onpage SEO

What about long URL's with the full path?

Originally Posted by moddis

What about long URL's with the full path?

I would like to know this question also.

Should we add an id to group name? Is it possible that group names can repeat and does it also ad an extra sql query if no group id is entered?

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Here are several options that may help to add extra efficiency for your vBSEO installation:

Move rewrite rules from .htaccess to httpd.conf

For users with dedicated servers, the vBSEO rewrite rules applied in the .htaccess files can be moved directly into the httpd.conf file for more efficient performance.

It's amazing how much difference that has made to me! Pages are now loading 4 times faster and server load has been cut down by half!!!!!

Thanks a lot

Originally Posted by Ross

It's amazing how much difference that has made to me! Pages are now loading 4 times faster and server load has been cut down by half!!!!!

Thanks a lot

So you just have to directly copy and paste the contents from .htaccess into the httpd.conf file?

it helped

Originally Posted by Hiiragi

So you just have to directly copy and paste the contents from .htaccess into the httpd.conf file?

If you are using WHM , you can check the following article [How-to] Move .htaccess rules into httpd.conf from WHM - vBulletin SEO Forums

I run things pretty barebones so I don't use WHM. Would there be another reference to d this via SSH/SFTP?

Another good thing is put into config_vbseo.php the ID of the forums to be rewritteds
For example i have hidden forums that dont be crawleables. If i save many rewrites i save cpu cycles too

PHP Code:

//Only put crawleables forums here separated by commas
 $vbseo_applyto_forums = array(
    );