Blog of VBSEO on consumeractiongroup.co.uk

This site had VBSEO installed today 17th June 2006.

Consumer Action Group - fighting unfair bank charges

Week One
17th June 2006

Threads: 10,150
Posts: 86,280
Members: 33,379

Google SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 60,400
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 0

Forum Home PR0

Week Two
23rd June 2006


Threads: 10,971 +821
Posts: 94,180 +11,900
Members: 36,917 +3,538

Google SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 40,500 -19,900
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 10,600 +10,600

MSN SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 166
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 28

Yahoo SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 378
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 83

Week Three
30th June 2006


Threads: 12,346 +1,375
Posts: 104,898 +10,718
Members: 39,653 +2,736

Google SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 15,300 -19,900
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 11,400 +10,600

MSN SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 166
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 10

Yahoo SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 589
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 350


Google Search

site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk - Google Search

site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk VBSEO - Google Search


MSN Search

MSN Search: site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk

MSN Search: site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk vbseo

Yahoo Search


site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk - Yahoo! Search Results

site:www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk vbseo - Yahoo! Search Results

Round Up.

End of Week 1

Got site map installed today (Friday) and added robots.txt (Tuesday) to keep them out of areas they are not welcome.

Google SERPS

NON VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 40,500 -19,900
VBSEO INDEXED PAGES: 10,600 +10,600

Wow, I'm amazed that you got that many vBSEO'ed pages indexed in such a short time with a PR0 forum-home page.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

Wow, I'm amazed that you got that many vBSEO'ed pages indexed in such a short time with a PR0 forum-home page.

I don't think it will pr0 once we have an update. One of the saddest parts was Google reported that /fourm/ had the highest page rank them someone told them that all non home page links had no value so they went on mission to let users know to point all links to home page, now sadly the home page is the most important page according to Google. But no way to share the PR as it has no direct links to level 1 forums etc.

Just got to get them ranking for Bank charges now.

I do no have admin control over the site in any way shape or form, I'm just spending my time trying to help them get serp results.

There is a few on page elements that I consider bad for SEO but they need them to fund the site. IE the tables on the left links above navbar. My biggest concern is that apart from the meta description and welcome message the keywords do not reproduce themselves until the last forum block.

At the least I have suggested they put the left hand tables under the navbar and welcome header (using welcome headers hack).

Like so.

But I don't think they are to keen on that. So i guess that my real concern is that we will get the c2c spot on and VBSEO will take care of the rest and they will not rank for their key words.

And that the mods constantly change the forum titles to allow for changes in keeping the title up to date with the progress of the threads. I worry that they will get a star page and someone will change the title (with the best of intentions).