VBSEO Installed. Now What?

We had Brandon of vbulletinsetup.com install VBSEO on our forum.

TrumpetMaster.com

Brandon was great to work with!

Anyway now that we have this installed whats the next step. Sit back and let it do its thing? What is the best way to track our results. Thank you!

build backlinks

and not just to the forum root, try and build some deep links like
Trumpet Discussion - TrumpetMaster this would be good, since all the threads are about trumpets..

Equipment - TrumpetMaster this would be a good deep link to try and promote also, several 1,000 threads on instruments

TrumpetMaster.com - Classifieds - Main Index - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds this is another link I would try and build.

anyways, thanks for your kind words

Great looking site

ps. I think there are some rewrite rules that we can add for photopost, If I find them and I still have access to your site, I'll set them up for you

You should get rid of the "Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds" part of the title (if it is allowed by the license agreement).

Ok, So how do I build backlinks. Can you point me to an article? Do the back links need to come from sites that are related to our topic at TrumpetMaster.com ? Or can it be any site (the higer page rank the better).

Originally Posted by Loco

build backlinks

and not just to the forum root, try and build some deep links like
Trumpet Discussion - TrumpetMaster this would be good, since all the threads are about trumpets..

Equipment - TrumpetMaster this would be a good deep link to try and promote also, several 1,000 threads on instruments

TrumpetMaster.com - Classifieds - Main Index - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds this is another link I would try and build.

anyways, thanks for your kind words

Great looking site

ps. I think there are some rewrite rules that we can add for photopost, If I find them and I still have access to your site, I'll set them up for you

Does anyone know if this is possible? Thank you Joe and Brandon for the help!

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

You should get rid of the "Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds" part of the title (if it is allowed by the license agreement).

For backlinks, focus on relevant sites only. Try creating interesting threads that link to related sites. Our LinkBack system will send PingBacks or Trackbacks that may result in links back to you.

they can be from any site, but like Joe said. Relevant sites are the best

Do you have the Google/yahoo sitemap generator installed yet? It's perfect for keeping track of the results. That is the next big step, and building links of course.

Yes, I believe the site map is installed. The Google works but I keep getting an error about the Yahoo map

We always had a bunch of yahoo bots on our site and just one Google bot. Now I notice we have 2 google bots alot of the time. Is it possible that has something to do with the VBSEO?

I'm a total noob at this stuff. Just wondering.

Well, vBSEO is definitely going to impact crawling activity on your site.

However, with the millions of pages being crawled on a daily basis, it's hard to determine patterns in data such as # of bots online concurrently, frequency of visits, variation between Google vs. Yahoo, etc, or # of content harvested per visit.

In general, you should measure your success by an increased # of pages listed in the search engine indexes, and (as the ultimate indicator) growth in your monthly web hits.

Our adsense revenue is up quite a bit this month! Maybe vbseo helped?

Thought I would give an update since we installed VBSEO.

Registrations way up

Adsense Revenue way up

I searched "trumpet forum" "trumpet forums" "trumpet discssuon" and we seem to be #1. Used to be 2 or 3

Key words where we were no where close to the first page we are now on the first page of google.

I added some back links like suggested here and have been running vbseo for a month or two.

Somethign is working!

Originally Posted by TrumpetMaster

Registrations way up

Adsense Revenue way up

I searched "trumpet forum" "trumpet forums" "trumpet discssuon" and we seem to be #1. Used to be 2 or 3

very nice

Thanks loco. And thanks for your tweaking

Originally Posted by Loco

very nice