What is main advantage of vbseo + vb and other boards like phpbb etc... after applying SEO

I have test run 2 phpbb forums for which I set up sitemaps and SEO as well as pings to pingomatic, technorati etc....

I found my new forums which include following forum is indexed well by google and yahoo even though it is just new.

www.dailyhottopics.com


In fact, it got More threads indexed in yahoo than my 1 year old VB forum.

I am wondering now what is main advantage of vbseo + vb and other boards like phpbb etc... after applying such SEO.

Ultimately if the forum pages are se friendly, meaning no dupe url's, heading tags and not a bunch of repeated unrelated content then they're all gonna be the same. vBSEO is the solution for vBulletin forums. Ultimately your comparison shouldn't be vBSEO vs phpbb-seo, it should be vBulletin vs phpBB and then apply the appropriate seo solution. I can tell you, having converted 3 phpBB forums, that forum activity will increase 30-40% pretty much immediately - it did for me in all cases. That's not se referral wise, but member participation. SE referrals were pretty much similar in phpBB vs vBulletin seo'd forums because, as common sense would suggest, se's don't give bonus points based on the software you run. It's all about making sure they know what your forum pages are about, and where they're at.