Forum Progress report - Sadoun.net -

[newseo1]

Forum: Sadoun Satellite Sales Forums
URL: http://www.sadoun.net

Installed VBSEO 3/17/06 with the help of Oleg

As of today 3/19/06

Pages in Google - 19,100

• VBSEO pages - 0

Pages in Yahoo - 5,500

• VBSEO pages - 1

Pages in MSN - 1,125

• VBSEO pages - 3

Threads: 5,227, Posts: 25,363, Members: 13,652
Google Page Rank: 5

Side note: Usually we get more guests than members viewing the forum (ratio of 5 : 1 ). How can we turn these guests into active members? Any suggestions?

[Ashley]

Side note: Usually we get more guests than members viewing the forum (ratio of 5 : 1 ). How can we turn these guests into active members? Any suggestions?

Same here, wish I knew the answerer. BTW Welcome to the forums.

1/ I was amazed when I installed the new skin on my site after being advised to here how many members PMed me to say what an improvement.

2/ I find that the number of forums 40+ scary and I would not join.

3/ The forums show to guests as all locked.

[Keith Cohen]

Try this:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99579

Just make sure you have the messages displayed below the Navbar.

[butty]

i recomend the welcome headers hack. im now getting 3 times more people sign up than i was before i had it on my forum

[newseo1]

Just make sure you have the messages displayed below the Navbar.

How would you do that? and why it should be below and not above the nav bar?

[Keith Cohen]

You don't want the extra text above the area where you have your Thread Titles/Forum Titles/Descriptions.

[newseo1]

Update:

Post vbSEO: The forums now are running slower to open and view threads than pre vBSEO.

Any suggestions?

[Keith Cohen]

vBSEO does use more CPU than standard vB, but it shouldn't be a lot. No way around that. What were your server load levels before, and what are they now?

[newseo1]

Good question. I didn't measure that pre or post vBSEO. I will check and report back. If I add mod_gzip, would that affect the functions of the forums?

[Keith Cohen]

If you add mod_gzip, make sure you turn off vBulletin's internal gzip option.

[newseo1]

Where do you do that?
Does mod_gzip have better performance than VB's internal gzip?
Do you know of any issues with mod_gzip and FireFox users?

[Keith Cohen]

I asked that question here a while back: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147524

vBulletin's gzip option:

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> GZIP HTML Output

[newseo1]

Since only VB is running here, I will leave it as is.

post VBSEO: Server Load Averages 1.29 1.42 1.65

[newseo1]

Hi, all

I installed the Welcome Headers plug in. Here is how it looks: http://www.sadoun.net/

Let me know if anyone has ny comments.

Indexing report

Pages in Google -
3/19 19,100
3/27 19,000

VBSEO pages
3/19 0
3/27 10

Page Rank
3/19 5/10
3/27 5/10

Pages in Yahoo -
3/19 5,500
3/27 5,600

VBSEO pages
3/19 1
3/27 0


Pages in MSN
3/19 1,125
3/27 89

VBSEO pages
3/19 3
3/27 63

[newseo1]

Hi all

It seems like Google is indexing the main forums only, but not the threads.
site:www.sadoun.net vbseo

Is that normal?