BRand Free VbSEo ?

Hi,

Is there a Brand Free version of vBSeo, or how would I be able to remove the linkback to vbSeo fromt he foot of every page on my vb system ?

Information here: Branding Options

Hi,

I have read over all your branding free information, and was especially interested in the comments by a user who referred to several ebay auctions.

We operate a PR7 website, and we have been using VBAdvanced on the site, amongst other tools.

vbseo has *hijacked* our other vbulletin add-ons, in particular it has hijacked the vbadvanced system and now has a prominent display on our frontpage, when the vbseo system does abolsutely NOTHING for our front page.

We sell advertising and backlinks at a minimum page price of $75 per month from our website, and we do not like the fact that this software has basically hijacked every conceivable vbulletin area of our website, including areas wher it has absolytely NO RIGHT to be in. It has done this hijacking by taking advantage of the VB Copyright section, which is used by other vb add-ons also.

We use vbgeeks GARS system as well, and as a comparison example, GARS ONLY appears on pages affected or operated by GARS.

We like your software, and we believe it will be beneficial for us, and we also do not mind giving you a linkback to your website. We do however object to every page being hijacked on our vbulletin systems.

We generally only buy branded free softwares, and even though we do this, we still always provide our software providers with linkbacks, because we feel it is nice to be nice, and it is beneficial all round.

In spite of what appear to be claims for almost 2 years, your company has made no attempts to address this problem.

How do we solve this problem amicably guys, to all of our satisfaction?

Just for the record, I hope your techonology patent application excludes the hijacking of other people's pages where you have no right to be on, otherwise your efforts will be in vain.

vBSEO needs to process pages created by vbAdvanced, etc. because the contain dynamic vBulletin URLs that must be rewritten.

Our branding notice only occurs on pages that are processed by vBSEO.

You can exclude pages from processing if you wish. However, in many cases, this may be detrimental to your SEO.

If you read my post corectly you would have observed I stated it has hijacked the front page also.

I have no idea why vbseo would need to hijack our index page/main page of our site as it is hardly a page that requires SEO input from vbseo.

In any event, some information about how to disable the processing of particular pages would be helpful.

Information about a more specific date for branding free option would be even more helpful, and I can't help but agree with the observations of another user that this is a point your company continuously is seeking to avoid answering. Hardly patent endearing qualities.

The homepage can be excluded by adding this in "Exclude Pages?" option, within your vBSEO Control Panel (vbseocp.php):

Code:

^$

FYI vBSEO does not *hijack* any of your pages. You are referring to the addition of a vBSEO branding notice, applied to pages that are processed by vBSEO.

Re: Branding Removal Option

It is not available at this time. There is no estimate on when it will be made available. This has not yet been determined. The vBSEO community will be notified when the status changes.

Hello Krispy,

Originally Posted by krispy1812

vbseo has *hijacked* our other vbulletin add-ons, in particular it has hijacked the vbadvanced system and now has a prominent display on our frontpage, when the vbseo system does abolsutely NOTHING for our front page.

vBSEO will process all pages powered by the vBulletin engine (i.e. output is based on the vBulletin code/templates). This allows it to rewrite all vBulletin type URLs included in other pages (such as those generated by vBAdvanced).

You may limit vBSEO to process only the *core* vBulletin dynamic pages (forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread) with the following code modification in vBSEO Global Hook:

PHP Code:

if(in_array(THIS_SCRIPT, array('index', 'forumdisplay', 'showthread')))
if(@include_once(($GLOBALS['vbpath']?$GLOBALS['vbpath'].'/includes':dirname(__FILE__)).'/functions_vbseo.php'))
    $output = make_crawlable($output); 


However, I wouldn't suggest doing this as you would end up with non-rewritten (and thus, inconsistent) URLs pointing back to your vB powered pages.

We use vbgeeks GARS system as well, and as a comparison example, GARS ONLY appears on pages affected or operated by GARS.

GARS functionality does not require it to *intercept* all vB generated pages like vBSEO does.