any tips, suggestions etc

would be much appreciated

DJ Community - Forums

thanks in advance
chris

try the relevant replacements

I see the section in vBSEO panel, but in what way would use it use it if it were your forum? please give me an example of how you would change things on my forum using the relevant replacements settings

well this is what I use on my forum and 99% of the forums I work on..Some have different navbar's so I have to edit this a little.. Looking at your site, this setup should work.. Also I would remove the built in navbar descriptions that in the admincp > vboptions

anyways.. this is what I use, try it, change it if needed, make it work for you

<!--VBSEO_RR_1--> will be replaced by:

Code:

<strong>[forum_title] at [bb_title]</strong> <span class="smallfont">[forum_description]</span><br />

on forumdisplay pages (and)

Code:

<strong>[forum_title]</strong> <span class="smallfont">Discuss <em>[thread_title]</em> in the [parent_forum_title] forums; [first_post_30_words]...</span>

on showthread pages.

Then I search in the navbar template for

Code:

$navbits[lastelement]

and place the <!--VBSEO_RR_1--> with a break, after so it looks like...

Code:

<strong>$navbits[lastelement]<br /><!--VBSEO_RR_1--></strong>

cheers
-Brandon

Ok i will try that code thanks, but what do you mean by this

Originally Posted by Loco

Also I would remove the built in navbar descriptions that in the admincp > vboptions

where about in admincp > vboptions as i cant find it

cheers chris

admincp > vboptions > Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) > Enable Forum Description > No

cheers

cool, done both things you suggested and think it looks better cheers

anymore suggestions let me know people thanks

sure
add a welcome header, or if using 3.7, change the notices to an image
[HOW-TO] Make your Welcome Headers an image!

and here is a whole list of tips
http://www.vbenhanced.com/forums/hin...tion-tips.html

cheers

will take a look, cheers Loco

chris

woah... i did them suggestions from the second link you posted and daaam my forum loads a lot faster now. niceone!!

btw im using 3.7 yes... looks tricky to add the image stuff. but will give it a go nevertheless heh

Originally Posted by Chris Powell

woah... i did them suggestions from the second link you posted and daaam my forum loads a lot faster now. niceone!!

Great!

Ive noticed a little problem which is when i have this setting turned on

Cleanup HTML Code

Cleanup HTML code?
Select 'Yes' to remove unnecessary whitespace characters and HTML comments from the source code of your forum pages. This increases the C2C (Content to Code) ratio and reduces page sizes, resulting in a net performance increase and reduction in bandwidth required.
NOTE: If comments (or HTML tags) within your pages are not closed correctly with their corresponding end tags, then this option could cause your pages to display incorrectly. Be sure that your templates contain error free HTML tags and code.

my forums Quick Links link doesnt work. dont suppose you know what could be causing this do you Loco?

Another thing im thinking of changing is the name archive to sitemap though not sure whether to do this because apart from the directory and mp3 store all the rest of the pages from here DJ Community - Home gets indexed by the extra_url.txt list from the forums vbseo sitemap. Obviously, the mp3 store cannot be included because it is a different domain name and the directory i just gave it its own sitemap because I don’t know how to add the directory to the forums sitemap somehow? Also i have this sitemap DJ Community - Site Map but it isn’t being used by Google webmaster tools. in Google webmaster tools I just have the forums vbseo sitemap that im using and have second sitemap for the directory. I’m not sure whether changing the name from archives to sitemap for the forums/link will help

As you can see im totally baffled by it, Loco. Any ideas on what is best to do

I’m going to leave the Welcome header image stuff as it’s to tricky for me to do, and am not even brave enough to just use the text either. You need a hack from vb.org and have to change Google adsense code.

Also I’m using vb 3.7 beta 5 so don’t think I should mess with it.

Thanks for the link to the other page though Loco

Cheers