vBSEO Optimization Tips

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

My site is a social networking software integrated with vBulletin. So I have one .htaccess file under domain.com/, and another .htaccess(for vBulletin) under domain.com/forums

My questions are:
1. Do I need move contents of both .htacess to httpd.conf or just vBulletin .htaccess'?
2. After I move the contents of .htaccess, should I keep an empty .htaccess or just delete the .htaccess file?

1) You need to move both. You'll need to have two separate entries in httpd.conf like:

Code:

<Directory /your/site/root>
Root .htaccess here
</Directory>

and one below it like

Code:

<Directory /your/path/to/forums>
forum .htaccess here
</Directory>

As far as I know you just do that for whichever .htaccess files you have.

2) I just renamed my old .htaccess files so I had them on hand in case things didn't work out with httpd.conf. Luckily they did and they now serve as backups for me.

Thanks. My hosting company create two include files with the contents of the two .htaccess files, and httpd.conf calls those two include files

I suppose this is also correct?

Apache has been restarted and I already renamed my two .htaccess files

after my vbseo sitemap link is broken.

It looks like the following rewrite rule is not honored in httpd.config. Did you encounter similar issue?

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Bump, I'd like to know an answer to the above ^^

What is the complete list of rewrite rules you have defined? Also, don't you have .htaccess file in forums folder? (it might override settings from httpd.conf)

There are so many seo optimization tips some of them are :
1.Choose the best key words.
2.find your competitors.
3.optimize your title.
4.optimizing your website title.
5.optimize your META tags.
6.Use title and ALT attributes.
7.Create a site map page
8.Include a robots.txt file

How much of an impact do the default Link Back settings generally have? Is there anyway to measure how much benefit this feature has provided before I turn it off?

I'd like to take performance up a notch, but I don't want to turn off something without understanding how valuable it is... thanks!

Disable features with outgoing network connections.

Various features have outgoing network connections. To reduce or eliminate these requests, you can disable the following vbseocp.php features:

• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Update Services
• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Enable Outgoing Pingbacks
• Outgoing LinkBacks -> Enable Outgoing Trackbacks
• Add Titles to External Links -> Add Page Titles to External Links Anchor Text?

about the 'add thread titles': if i disable this option it doesn't rewrites the links that someone posts in the threads correct?

thanks for the tipps.

I wan't to make my forums use unobtrusive javascript, and load all javascript in one file (different files depending on the page and needed js) right before the </body> tag. I also want to combine all the css into one file and load it in the head. Now the problem I am seeing is the inline javascript vbseo produces, is there a way I can intercept that or take it and hardcode it into a file? Does it ever really change?

Most of these items are vb-related directly. You will need to do some custom hacking to make this happen.
The vbseo code can be added as necessary per page where ever. The analytics/etc code will always be added in-line, as will any virtual html you may use.

Yeah, I was wondering about the analytics code, have you guys thought of using the new asynchronous code google put out recently?

3.5.x uses the async already.

What about something like this? What php file would I have to edit to change which analytics code is used? Optimized Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code