Critique Please: Cotilleando

www.cotilleando.com

• Entertaintment site (main language: Spanish)
• Founded in 2004
• PR 2/10 (I know...)
• Adsense since late 2008, I didn't even knew about it before that
• Started tagging the site this year and to get into SEO and positions, before that the people were getting into my site pretty much on a worth of mouth basis.
• Got a VPS last year after been kicked out from several hosting companies (bandwith and resources eater they said)
• Got a webmaster for the first time a year/half ago or so, pretty much the site were running wild and with tons of good luck.

I just bought and installed the vbseo, actually you guys installed for me. Those are my statistics so far before vbseo:







I don't know if this is the right place to put statistics and stuff, you guys let me know please since I'm a newbie.

Hello,

Design :

• As i say in all my critiques i didn't like vbulletin default style
• I Would you to try vBSEO Style 2 it's 100% CSS Validate and that's very helpful with search engines

SEO :

• i want you to replace your showposts with Permalink Check Out : [How To] Replace Showpost Links with Permalinks - Max Out Search Engine Crawling Efficiency
• i want you to use vBSEO Relevant Replacements Check Out : [How to] Setup Relevant Replacements with vBSEO
• i want you to remove your forum title from your thread page Check Out : [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy
• I want you to use Virtual HTML Display in your what's going on box Check Out My Blog :[How To] Add Virtual HTML Display In Your Forum Template
• i want you to remove FAQ,Calender from your navbar for guests only
• 301 Redirect : Search engines may think Cotilleos y Actualidad Personajes Famosos y del Corazón, Monarquia. and cotilleando.com are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect") Check Out : [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects
• I want you to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages and forum display only From vBSEO Sitemap Generator
• Are you Installed vBSEO Sig ?

Gracias Marco. I will work on all your recommendations tonight since my webmaster came back from vacations. I bought the vbseo w/ installation so I don't know about the vbseo sig... probably my webmaster will be able to tell me later on, not that's he's a master but the Tutorials seems to be pretty informatives.

How can I get the vbseo style 2?.

In the future I will try to have a custom made skin just for my site but since it cost $$ I have been investing on most important things, I did have some vbulletin Styles once but uninstalled since my members didn't used them; if you don't have it by default forget it.

Will implement all your advices and get back to you.

You Can download vBSEO Style 2 here : vBSEO 2.0 Style Available Now - Web 2.0 Themed

Thank you Marco. Question: How can I tell if I'm receiving significant traffic or not to my showpost pages?. Can you tell me looking at the Google Analytic pictures Id left on my first post?, if it shows where I think it is I'm seeing forumdisplay...

What is a showpost anyways? Sorry about the ignorance, learning as I go.

I'm trying to replace showposts with permalinks but there is a warning.

Thanks.

Check Out Joe Blog : Do your ShowPost Pages Get Search Hits? - vBulletin SEO Forums

Question:

Our Installation Service Includes:

1. Upload and configuration of .htaccess file
2. Upload of vBSEO scripts
3. Import of vBSEO Product to vBulletin Control Panel
4. Default configuration of vBSEO options
5. Basic installation troubleshooting
6. Moving .htaccess commands to httpd.conf (for dedicated servers only; requires extra access permissions)
7. Basic configuration of mod_rewrite or ISAPI_Rewrite (where possible only)

Extras:

• Set-up and configuration of the vBSEO Sitemap Generator
• Set-up of Relevant Replacements on your forum.
• URL Canonicalization (URL Consolidation) settings including:
  1. Activating vBSEO's Homepage Aliases feature - Will 301 redirect homepage URL variations (i.e /index.php, /index.php?) to the root directory.
  2. Setting .htaccess (or httpd.conf) rules to 301 redirect all non-www type URLs to www type URLs or vice-versa.
• Basic forum setting check including:
  1. Removing thread pruning so that all threads are visible to Search Engines.
  2. Removal of "Powered by vBulletin" text from your title tags.

Are those Extras included on the 79.00 fee installation?

Originally Posted by marco1

• 301 Redirect : Search engines may think Cotilleos y Actualidad Personajes Famosos y del Corazón, Monarquia. and cotilleando.com are two different sites.You should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a "301 redirect") Check Out : [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

I don't quite underestand why is this request? Why will Cotilleos y Actualidad etc etc affect the fact that someone will get to my forum trough Google, Yahoo, etc?. Honest question, not ironic.

Ex. When I type, Zapatos de Letizia, Google will bring my site no matter if the name is Cotilleos y Actualidad Personajes blah blah blah or just Cotilleando.

Regarding the www my site works both ways with the www.name.com and name.com

Do you think that will be a problem in terms of positioning?.

Hello,

We Make 301 Redirect between these sites. Once you do that, you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.

For example, Cotilleos y Actualidad Personajes Famosos y del Corazón, Monarquia. seems to have 2,380 inbound links whereas cotilleando.com has 3,246 inbound links. By correctly configuring a permanent 301 redirect, the search rankings might improve as all inbound links are correctly counted for the website.

Hi Marco; thanks for your answer, Isn't the 301 redirection included on the installation price?.

No, So I Here to help you after installations

K, Thanks. I will be implementing some changes, the first I need to resolve is the ñ's and accented words on the link.

Check your thread I reply to your thread