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This is a discussion on vBSEO 3.1.0 Released! within the vBSEO Announcements forums, part of the Announcements & Pre-Sales category; Hi everyone, vBSEO 3.1.0 is now officially a GOLD release, available to all vBSEO customers. 3.1.0 includes several important new ...
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Hi everyone, vBSEO 3.1.0 is now officially a GOLD release, available to all vBSEO customers. 3.1.0 includes several important new additions including vBulletin Blog Compatibility, caching system compatibility, performance improvements and several other new features, updates, and bug fixes (60+ in total). Prepare for the Next Generation of vBSEO We consider 3.1.0 GOLD to be the pre-cursor to the next generation of vBSEO! I know you are probably very interested to find out exactly what that means. Please allow me to explain. Firstly, this release is very much a transitional release, taking us from one era to the next. Now that we are in our 3rd year of business with vBSEO, with thousands of happy vBSEO users (like Ismael Briasco, founder of psicofxp forums), we feel it is time to take care of several outstanding requests that have been discussed in our community, including the following:
Branding Removal Option Available On our purchase page, you will now see that we have a branding removal option. Basically, those who select this option are permitted to remove the vBSEO copyright notice from their forums. For those of you who require this feature, we are pleased to make it available to you now. vBSEO has thousands of customers all over the world, speaking over 23 different languages! vBulletin forum admins all over the world are clearly aware that vBSEO is the right choice for their vBulletin SEO solution. While we like to think of the vBSEO copyright as a "badge of honor" and hope that many of you choose to keep it in place, we respect your wishes to have a removal option available. Request granted. Installation Service While vBSEO is a straightforward installation, there are many forum admins who do not have a highly technical background. We do not want anyone to miss out on taking advantage of vBSEO due to an inability to complete the installation. With that said, we have added a new installation service to our purchase page. If you need your installation completed professionally, you can select this option and a member of the vBSEO Total Support Team will take care of it on your behalf. vBSEO 3.1.0 - Encryption Free - Visible Source Code vBSEO 3.1.0 is the first official release that is 100% visible source code and requires no IonCube/Zend encryption! We hope to encourage greater interaction with the vBulletin development community. With more great minds, we are certain to accelerate the improvement of vBSEO for next generation versions. Stay tuned for an exciting upcoming announcement related to this aspect in the near future. vBSEO Performance Boost The encryption free version of 3.1.0 has been getting several reports from our pre-release team that we should expect a very significant performance boost from vBSEO 3.0.0. While past versions of vBSEO are performance optimized, we have even greater expectations for 3.1.0 for large and highly active forums. In fact, we did beta testing with the new version for large forums. Results were extremely positive! vBSEO Roadmap Get a complete summary of recent events for vBSEO, as well as what is planned for vBSEO 3.5 and an exciting new announcement about vBulletin Blogs! Read on to find out more about what's included in vBSEO 3.1.0...
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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| New Features in vBSEO 3.1.0: (1) NEW FEATURE: vBulletin Blog URL Rewrites vBSEO 3.1 includes a full vBulletin Blog Rewriting feature. Like all vBSEO URL Rewrites, we built this new feature to achieve full link consensus. As is typical with vBSEO, it is also fully configurable. vB Blog Rewriting can be configured by expanding the "Advanced Settings" area of "URL Rewrite Settings" in the vBSEO Control Panel (vbseocp.php). In the "vBulletin Blog URLs" section, you'll have complete control over the configuration of your vBulletin Blog URLs. Configurations include:
Social Bookmarking features have also been updated for compatibility with the vBulletin Blog system. Configuration options include:
(2) NEW FEATURE: Caching Options vBSEO is now compatible with 4 different caching systems that are commonly installed on various server environments. Making use of these caching systems may result in performance improvements:
(4) NEW FEATURE: Incoming URLs with parameters (such as style IDs) will be 301 redirected to a non-parameter version for both search engines and guests. Parameters forwarded include: Code: 'pp', 'highlight', 'order', 'sort', 'daysprune', 'referrerid' New option added in config_vbseo.php file so that it can be manually disabled: PHP Code: (6) NEW FEATURE: Remove Member DHTML Popup Dropdowns in Postbit For Guest Visitors feature gets rid of the DHTML popup window that is displayed for member usernames in posts for guest visitors (and search engines). The result is an improved C2C (Content to Code) ratio, and bandwidth savings. Other updates will follow.....
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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| Other Updates in vBSEO 3.1.0: (7) UPDATE: "Update Services" now is implemented as a postponed update. Threads are processed for update services every 5 minutes in the background, eliminates any delay in display new thread pages for the user. (8) UPDATE: Acronym Expansion feature now supports auto-linking. Terms can be replaced with a linked version whenever a link is defined as the replacement: Code: 'vbseo'=>'http://www.vbseo.com' ![]() Wherever the term vBSEO occurs in your forum, 'vbseo' would be replaced with: (9) UPDATE: Trackback spam almost completely eliminated by doing a remote IP address comparison to host IP for incoming trackbacks. (10) UPDATE: LinkBack titles can be edited by double clicking and changing the text in the LinkBack display section of each forumdisplay and thread display page. (11) UPDATE: LinkBack moderation list is now paginated. (12) UPDATE: Acronym Expansions applied to Relevant Replacements text. (13) UPDATE: "Select All" feature added for LinkBack moderation. (14) UPDATE: Forum slugs now included in backup/restore settings. (15) UPDATE: (Beta) Add Page Titles to External Links Anchor Text? feature as well as Linkbacks now handles linking between sites with different character encodings (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, Windows-1256). (16) UPDATE: Linkbacks are restricted if "Can View Forum" or "Can View Thread Content" are not permitted for guests. (17) UPDATE: Linkback stopwords are now applied to the thread title of the forum page being linked to, on your site. (18) UPDATE: Templates vbseo_linkbackbit and vbseo_linkbackmenu now use $stylevar array for image paths. (19) UPDATE: Acronym Expansions applied to Relevant Replacements text. (20) UPDATE: Redirect ("redirect-to") URLs set to check for JavaScript code to prevent cross site scripting vulnerabilities. (21) UPDATE: Restructuring of database table indices when linkback table is queried. (22) UPDATE: User details retrieval query eliminated on forum home / forum display pages for member URL formats without user ID. (23) UPDATE: vBSEO modularization structure updated to allow for easier development of custom add-ons. (24) UPDATE: Guests see dynamic lastpost links (in forumhome) when they point to restricted threads (public/restricted forums) and guests forumdisplay pages where thread reading is restricted. (25) UPDATE: Eliminated a database query for the last post thread URL on member profile pages. (26) UPDATE: Eliminated a database query for the member list page. (27) UPDATE: Added support for rewriting new vBulletin member profile URL format: /member.php?username=Juan+Muriente (28) UPDATE: Updated caching code to reduce the number of API calls. (29) UPDATE: When vBSEO retrieves the title of a URL, it will omit generic titles that are the same as the forum title. (30) UPDATE: Replace 'Previous/Next Thread' redirect links? feature updated to include stopwords elimination. (31) UPDATE: No LinkBacks recorded for soft deleted threads. (32) UPDATE: rel="novbseo" tag will always be processed. No configuration file enabling is required. define('VBSEO_ALLOW_REL_NOVBSEO', 0); has been deprecated. (33) UPDATE: Custom Rewrite Rules (CRRs) will ignore anchors appended to embedded links when processing. Fixes will follow.....
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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| Fixes in vBSEO 3.1.0: (34) FIX: Saving vbseocp.php settings from within vBulletin AdminCP caused page to refresh to vBSEO Control Panel only. (35) FIX: Added "Status" HTTP header causing 500 error in some server configurations (PHP installed as fast-cgi). (36) FIX: CRUs for /gallery/ URLs get replaced with forum root instead (such as /forum/). (37) FIX: Last modified headers sending a "Date" header that was just approximately 1 second behind the "Last Modified" header for some page loads. (38) FIX: With showpost URL rewriting off, showpost URLs were missing the showpost.php filename within the URL. (39) FIX: Links to search within a thread not including anchor text to direct to specific matching post. (40) FIX: Searching threads in threaded and hybrid modes causes post links to be incorrect. (41) FIX: Nav Bullet (Tree Icon) Image URLs. (42) FIX: PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/nestreet/public_html/forum/includes/function s_vbseo.php on line 1301. Related to PHP Bug #32621. (43) FIX: "Replace post number link with Permalink" not working if LinkBacks disabled. (44) FIX: Incorrect home link in Archive/Sitemap breadcrumbs. (45) FIX: UTF8 issue. Meta tags length calculated based on bytes (not real character length in 2-byte character sets). (46) FIX: UTF8 issue. Garbled alt tag for image images with accented characters. (47) FIX: Forwarding to forum display after creating new thread in moderated forum had incorrect forum display URL. (48) FIX: Debugging explanation link in member profile page not working. (49) FIX: Links on search results page (search.php) broken whnen search.php added to the vBSEO exclude list. (50) FIX: Duplicate refBack links. (51) FIX: Issue with LinkBack preview text due to issue with the way PHP strip_tags() function processes. (52) FIX: "new post icons" issue when automatic database marking is set in vBulletin 3.6.8. (53) FIX: Categories as anchors, sitemap linking to default catgory URL. (54) FIX: Missing /forum/ section in copy/pasted URLs. (55) FIX: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_list_encodings() (56) FIX: PHP Warning: Header may not contain more than a single header, new line detected. (57) FIX: Invalid URL format in email notices of new registration. (58) FIX: META description generated by vBSEO from first post containing HTML formatted table was missing spacing between terms. (59) FIX: Forums named with punctuation at the end (such as "!") were not rewriting correctly. Included a "-" at the end. (60) FIX: Retrieving page titles for pages without a title, or pages with restricted access (such as .htaccess password protection) resulted in the link disappearing from the post. Final notes will follow.....
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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| NOTE: If your license is currently expired you will need to renew prior to installation (check status on license list). vBSEO 3.1.0 is also available in other languages. At present, the vBSEO Control Panel can be viewed in your choice of:
Download Location All Licensed users may download vBSEO 3.1.0 from their User Control Panel at the vBSEO Home forums. Under the "Miscellaneous" section, there will be a link to "Download vBSEO". Or visit http://www.vbseo.com/downloads/ Installation & Upgrade Find detailed installation and upgrade instructions within the readme.html file included in the 'docs' folder of the installation package.
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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Thread open for discussion.
__________________ Juan Muriente / Crawlability Inc. vBSEO Styles: Version 1.0 PRO For Everyone Version 2.0 For vBSEO Customers vBSEO 3.3.0 Gold Released with New "Virtual HTML Display" Feature Available for Download Now 6X Traffic - $1400 in One Day with vBSEO! Max Out Your SEO |
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Rock on.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! One question: when upgrading, do we really do as the upgrade instructions say and upload the /includes/config_vbseo.php and overwrite the one with current settings in it? (does the xml export now include the settings in the beta section such as forum slugs or do we still need to copy these in manually?) |
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Thanks to the team for their hard work and dedication to the community. Looking forward to updating very soon. R'gards, Jim |
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Thanks for the current version |
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OK, just did the upgrade and it was very easy. To answer my own question above: no forum_slugs settings were not saved and restored by doing the xml all settings backup from 3.0.0 and import to 3.1.0, so if you use forum slugs be sure you manually restore them to the new vbseo_config.php From now on this won't be a problem, since as stated above 3.1.0 does back them up (and it's probably obvious to those who spend more time working with the product)Also a minor point, but the instructions say:
Thanks again for the awesome release of the world's best vBulletin SEO product
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Newsletter: Quote:
-Better? i've just downloaded 3.1.0 and will upgrade ASAP! |
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finally the branding free, gonna upgrade now.
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WOW - really so much faster, don't know if it's just vbseo, or the fact that I've selected vbseo's xcache option or both, only thing I know is that I haven't seen my site this fast in a long time (if ever)! THANKS! |
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