Crawlability Inc. Files Patent for SEO Technology

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-19-2006 09:10 PM

Congratulations, I'd like to see what other scripts you plan to work on

**Joe Ward** · 10-19-2006 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by vissa

Big supporter of VBSEO -- just adding my 2cents regarding patents.

I believe in order to patent it you are going to have to disclose enough to let everyone else know how you do it (though I think that is fairly obvious). Patents aren't a good thing sometimes (and I'm not talking about for the market -- I'm talking for the company getting the patent). Unlike copyrights, you have to pretty much disclose everything and getting a patent is no guarantee it will hold up. Good luck guys.

-vissa

Thank-you for the support and expressing your concerns. We know that patenting can be a difficult process. Fortunately, we are being represented by an expert patent attorney who will guide us in this regard.

**Dreamchaser** · 10-19-2006 11:56 PM

Congratulations & Good luck with your future endeavors !!!
Way to go vbSEO Team

Cheers,
Dreamchaser

**roscoe36** · 10-20-2006 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

The patent covers an SEO methodology. Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot disclose the contents of the application.

If the application has been made, it will be a matter of public record. If you are announcing it before it is made, thats just not very clever.

Big thumbs down here. This is lousy news for vBSEO license holders.

**BamaStangGuy** · 10-20-2006 12:11 AM

You don't even know what they are actually patenting and how it will affect you yet you already know it will be bad?

**FightRice** · 10-20-2006 01:01 AM

Its just people complaining. What the do best. I suppose maybe we'll hear about this more now then their encoding arguments and the such. which is some what good, cause those grow tiring everyday

Oh and good job vBSEO team!

**64North** · 10-20-2006 02:08 AM

It's an expensive PR stunt, whether it will pan out remains to be seen. U.S. patents are rarely actually enforcable elsewhere (even if they legally are), and even here in the U.S. software patents often get a thumbs-down from judges because many of them are entirely too general to be acceptable even if the patent office granted the patent.

I don't see how this changes anything for current vBSEO customers, I do see a C&D letter comming Zoint SEO's way though. Maybe that's what this is all about anyway. Must be annoying to have someone give something away for free that has elsewhere been selling well.

**BamaStangGuy** · 10-20-2006 02:24 AM

I dont get what the big deal about Zoints is. Its the next best thing yea... but 1) its not supported 2) not being developed 3) really buggy.

How VBSEO could find that threatening to the stable, actively developed program they have is beyond me

**briansol** · 10-20-2006 02:26 AM

considering that the owner of zoints personally runs vbseo, and is a member here, i don't see that happening

**unltd** · 10-20-2006 03:09 AM

When will this kind of information go public? I assume that it will be online at uspto.gov once they received your applications, so that others can inspect it if they've got any objections against it, but as stated I can't find any record in the patents DB.

**Junior** · 10-20-2006 06:08 AM

Congrats. Iam really interested in a SEO-Software for TYPO3.

Thanks a lot!

Junior

**chrisl** · 10-20-2006 06:31 AM

If vbSEO has a patent on not it is still a great product and I can't see it making any difference to any of us who use it on our forums.

I'm not a big fan of patents myself, but hey if the software still works and drives extra traffic to my forum, who am I to complain.

**Aharon** · 10-20-2006 09:22 AM

I am a software patent holder myself. Here is my view.

How the vBSEO sofware works could be duplicated by any competing company utilizing 301 redirects and mod-rewrite. The chances of any "sensitive" info about the product getting out due to the patent is fairly slim.

What are competitors going to find out?

"vBSEO uses mod-rewrite and 301's!! OMFG LOOK AT THE PRETTY PONIES!!!!" - vBSEO competitor.

What vBSEO is doing here is patenting there IDEA. Not the software itself.

**Mike** · 10-20-2006 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by briansol

So when do i get a job offer? :P

good work guys.

I get first shot at office janitor

**TECK** · 10-20-2006 01:26 PM

Congratulations, team!

Floren

Crawlability Inc. Files Patent for SEO Technology

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