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    Two Case Studies

    A month ago I started a new post series on my blog on running test cases with vBSEO on two different forums at once. My first month updated post can be viewed here.

    I'm interested in experienced vBSEO users' thoughts as to why one site benefited and the other didn't.

    As stated in my blog post, if only one of my larger forums could see the growth and improvement that Starcraft2.net had, then I'd be ecstatic... but can't understand why my other site didn't show an improvement.. perhaps because of the topic differences?
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    [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.mmaforums.net/ - W3C Markup Validator
    [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.starcraft2.net/ - W3C Markup Validator

    starcraft is simply a better written site, which is easier for the bots to read and interpret.


    both sites should move the CSS to the file system (saves bandwidth, decreases code to content)

    both templates could use some work.

    Code:
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    <script type="text/javascript">COMMENTSTART
    
    you can't html comment out a script like that.... i don't even know why the ad doesn't show...


    There's a lot more to SEO than just vbseo. Luckily, vbseo does all the hard stuff.
    work on your templates

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    brian - it doesn't show because it's been commented out.. as you quoted. I wrote COMMENTSTART and COMMENTEND because there is no otherway to comment out Javascript blocks of code, which is what I was doing since I change ads from time to time and don't want to refetch the code.

    Anyhow, thanks for taking a look at my sites... and while I'm not denying that the sites could improve on their SEO outside of vBSEO, my whole experiement is to test case vBSEO; if you look at MMAForums alone, it would appear that vBSEO (so far) has not benefited it. This is what I'm trying to track.
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    I just did another update, 2 months in. It is VERY detailed with all the numbers you could ask for. I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts and predictions too: vBSEO Case Study 2-Month Update TylerCruz.com: An Internet Entrepreneur’s Journey
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    put it on your big sites. that's my suggestion.

    as for your up.down in yahoo and google... keep in mind, they are dumping out your duplicate urls (printthread and all that crap) so you should expect to go down some.

    i started with 14k, peaked to 1.1 million, and finally setteled around 150k serp's.... which is where i should be.

    its ok to lose pages- as most are bloat.
    keep an eye on your terms, and your google ref's. if those are going up, you're on the right track

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