D. Go to your ADMIN CP > 'Plugin System' > 'Manage Products'


  1. Uninstall Current vBSEO Product
  2. Click on [Add/Import Product]
  3. Browse to the 'docs' folder of the installation package and open
    • vB3.x 'crawlability_vbseo_vb3.xml', Click 'Import'.
    • vB4.x 'crawlability_vbseo_vb4.xml', Click 'Import'.
Michael Biddle even says here that you should not uninstall the current vBSEO product. Doing so makes all rewrites act incorrectly. I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why all my rewritten links produced odd links.

If I was browsing the forum index at http://mysite.com/forums/ every link would have http://mysite.com/forums/ appended to the beginning of the link.

If I went to a forum, say, http://mysite.com/f2/ all my links would begin like http://mysite.com/f2/usercp/

It's really late so I hope this makes sense.