vBSEO 3.6.0 Gold Released!

Hello vBSEO Friends and Customers, we are happy to announce that vBSEO 3.6.0 Gold is now Gold and is available to all licensed users for installation on production servers with full support. You may download vBSEO 3.6 now from the downloads area for any active license.

Featuring the Likes Tree, updated Social Bookmarking System, Universal CDN Integration + MaxCDN Promo!

NOTE: Please read this announcement completely and carefully, as there are certain restrictions, changes to rules, and other important items that you should know about before jumping into 3.6. Pay special attention to the *Important* flag.

vBSEO 3.6.0 Gold Highlights

1. A full featured "Likes" system: A "Social Graph" for your community
The long-awaited Likes Tree integration is now available! Made popular by Facebook, and now making its way to forums and social web applications everywhere, the "Likes" system allows your users to effortlessly provide feedback to one another on the content they find most useful. Most importantly, this activity creates an underlying layer of data that works as a "Social Graph" for your community, opening the doors to a myriad of USEFUL features that have the potential to alter the way we interact with forums in different ways. One of them is enabling people to find the site's most useful content more efficiently (see our "Likes Tree" feature below). Another powerful use for this data is the ability to surface the most popular and/or relevant content for search engines, be it via Search Engine Friendly pages that list this content, or by using it as priority multipliers for your Search Engine XML sitemaps (coming in vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemaps 3.1).

2. The vBSEO "Likes Tree": Redefining the way people interact with forums
It gives you (and your users) an instant "birds-eye-view" of the "Likes" distribution in a thread, allowing you to *quickly* identify the most useful/important content, no matter how long the conversation is. This new feature represents a new paradigm as it allows people to extract more value out of forums in less time.

3. Updated Social Bookmarking and Sharing system
The vBSEO Bookmarks system has been highly improved. It now appears as a pop-out link in the post bit to save space and better fit the postbit layout.

Important: With this update, the format for custom urls for your Social Bookmarking Icons has been modified. CURRENT CUSTOM ENTRIES WILL NOT BE CONVERTED. You will need to manually edit any custom rules.

Old Format:
Bookmark URL,Icon URL,"Bookmark Thread" Text,"Bookmark Post" Text

New Format:
Bookmark URL,Icon URL,"Bookmark Thread" Text,"Bookmark Post" Text,"Bookmark article" Text

See this post for more information on what formats to use.

4. CDN integration and MaxCDN Promo! - Faster Sites = Better SEO
Now for the first time ever, it is easy to set up your vBSEO-powered vBulletin forum to work with a CDN. Search Engines will love you and your users will love you too. It has been proven that sites that load FASTER, rank HIGHER. vBSEO has partnered with MaxCDN to bring faster load speeds to our clients. *New licenses* will receive an account at MaxCDN, valid for 1TB of bandwidth or 1 year of usage (whichever comes first). The package is valued at $39.95 and is being made available for FREE to vBSEO users who *purchase* a new license or *renew* an existing license (limited to ONE 1TB account per-customer). vBSEO 3.6.0 now features an easy (Universal) CDN integration via our dashboard settings panel.

A CDN is a Content Delivery Network. CDN's host static files like Images, CSS, JavaScript and other static content. A CDN solution is one of the best ways to speed up your site and increase your server capacity.

Important: Certain restrictions Apply. Please read the following carefully.

1. 1 trial account per customer, regardless of how many licenses you have. You may use a single account for multiple sites though.
2. Details on how to claim your MaxCDN account will be presented to you at time of your FIRST purchase after this promotion goes into effect on your confirmation page. Print or write them down.
3. Important: You must follow the steps AT TIME OF ORDER ONLY. No exceptions.
4. Important: Staff cannot assist you with your MaxCDN account creation if you forgot to do it, or did it incorrectly. Your account will be marked as a CDN account holder and, any other new order will NOT invoke the promotional item again. Please do not open any tickets about this, as there is absolutely nothing we can do to change this. It is one-time, at time of order, only. If you get stuck or have problems, leave your purchase confirmation window open, launch a new tab/window in your browser to open a ticket/thread with any questions you may have BEFORE closing your order confirmation page.
5. Important: MaxCDN is a subscription-based product which has it's own billing system outside of the vBSEO ordering system. You will be prompted to enter a credit/debit card, or PayPal* account to put on file with MaxCDN. Credit/Debit card users will NOT be billed. PayPal Customers will be charged $0.99 to cover the PayPal minimum transaction amount.
6. *NOTE: The PayPal payment option will not be available until mid-day Monday, 3/14/2011.
7. If you do not agree to these terms, you are not required to participate and can simply navigate away from the order confirmation page. If you accept these terms, please be aware that after your 1TB of bandwidth is used, or 1 year of service (which ever comes first), you will be billed by MaxCDN based on this payment information per their terms of service at their current regular prices at time of billing. If you do not wish to be billed, you may cancel your CDN service at any time before your 1 year or 1TB of transfer is used up. MaxCDN will contact you previous to the expiry of your PROMO period indicating when it's going to expire, allowing you enough time to cancel the service shall you desire to do so. All MaxCDN account-related items are available to you in the MaxCDN dashboard: MaxCDN Control Panel.
8. If you are a current MaxCDN customer, you can still take advantage of this free promo item, however, you must make a new account via our ordering portal flow. Your current account will not be converted.
9. Past purchases, including those made just minutes before this announcement, unfortunately do not apply. A new purchase with our back end system in place is required in order to automate the process. You can renew for the future year even if you are not expired to obtain the free promotional item. All future-date renewals apply to the date of expiration, not order date.
10. MaxCDN is solely responsible for the CDN service and their servers. Our support will only offer help on problems with integration of the service in their vBSEO CP. Any technical issues with the CDN itself should be brought to the attention of MaxCDN through their authorized support channels.

The Free MaxCDN account promotion may be offered for a limited time only and is subject to termination without notice.

Not interested in MaxCDN or already use another provider? No problem. Our CP is designed to work with ANY CDN solution you wish to use.

Installation Instructions
Instructions for installing and upgrading to vBSEO 3.6 are included in the readme.html file in the download package, in the /docs (do not upload) folder.

Updates and Fixes Since vBSEO 3.5.2

New The Likes Tree
New Likes in Profile
New Like support for thread , blog entry , articles
New Share Functionality
New Enable like tree on specific forums
New CDN integration
New RR support for CMS Articles
New Google Analytics privacy support
New Arabic URL conversion from non utf8 to utf8
New Option to always display Like in postbit
New Article first_post_x_word support for CMS
New Like system widgets for vB4
New Like system importers
New Like system recalculation
New vBSEO CP Romanian translation added

Fix Encoding correction when title have ampersands
Fix Archive Displaying Twice
Fix Problem with Like tree with vBadvanced integration
Fix 500 error when using Vaultwiki simplified links
Fix Arabic tags UTF8 conversion correction
Fix Bookmark image locations
Fix Mobile style Virtual Html correction
Fix SSL correction on CDN integration
Fix Correction for load balanced servers
Fix Post per page corrections
Fix Copyright displaying problem
Fix Minor correction for special characters in nicknames
Fix Correction for vB3 like tree display
Fix vBSEO Cp anchor url display update
Fix Like widget corrections
Fix Missing css correction when styles are stored in database
Fix Minor correction with go to post url
Fix Correction to Blog urls
Fix Correction to missing class_bitfield_builder
Fix Correction to CDN integration for import_url
Fix Missing Like tree phrases
Fix BMP images not displaying
Fix Nginx rewrite rules update
Fix Correction to Like importer
Fix vB3 like tree member profile correction
Fix Correction to Like tree css
Fix RR improvements
Fix Member registration e-mail corrections
Fix Like tree causing db error
Fix Likes not clickable
Fix Missing headinclude_bottom template
Fix Update to license key generator
Fix Linkback phrase correction
Fix Minor correction for trackback field
Fix Old vBSEO bookmarks removed from Postbit/vBSEO Cp
Fix Like feature phrasing corrections
Fix Canonical url correction for group discussions
Fix Like feature permission correction for Articles
Fix Missing alt tag correction for Like Tree
Fix BBcodes removed from Like Tree bit display
Fix Correction on member url rewrite save function on vbseo cp
Fix Correction for premature end of script headers
Fix Parse error correction
Fix Correction to Mysqli
Fix Corrections to Like given on profile
Fix Correction for UTF8 support
Fix Correction for Acronym feature
Fix Improvements to vBSEO code for better security
Fix Nofollow white list corrections
Fix SE bot activity log correction
Fix Importer timeout prevention
Fix Facebook meta tag support
Fix CMS WYSIWYG editor correction
Fix Memberlist corrections
Fix Like count issue
Fix Share functionality not visible to guests
Fix Likes missing on thread merge correction
Fix Liked by x box not disappearing on IE
Fix Google Analytics site search
Fix Like tree wrong avatars displaying
Fix Tags with only numbers displaying wrong
Fix CMS pagination error fixed


End of Life for vBSEO 3.3.x

With the release of 3.6 Gold, the vBSEO 3.3-series has now officially met End of Life (EOL). vBSEO versions 3.3.2 and lower will not longer be supported nor maintained for updates/patches. We encourage all customers to upgrade to at least the latest 3.5.x, 3.6.0 preferred.

Important Notices:

• Make sure you backup your settings before upgrading
• Make sure that config.xml is chmod 666 to be able to set a new password for your Control Panel, and then re-lock it down when finished editing.
• Please report any bugs discovered via the vBSEO Plugin Bug Reporting Forum, NOT via this thread.

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For MaxCDN setup information, please see: How-To Set up your CDN

YES :-)
Installing it tonight.

Thanks Guys!

CRAP. I just paid with paypal and didn’t see the option for MAXCDN until Monday!!!

...are you serious? Crap. I could have just paid with my Credit Card. Is there a chance to refund or request funding back?

The PAYPAL thing should be PUT at the VERY TOP IN BOLD LETTERS for people who are reading the directions as they go. I read up until the payment thing, and went to follow those directions.

My fault for not reading the entire thing, but I wasn’t expecting there to be an issue with it.

I just installed the gold version, thank you very much.

New vBSEO CP Romanian translation added

thank's, i'm romanian

Can I renew vBSEO with PayPal and use Credit Card at MaxCDN to get the promotion?
Also, I'll get the details on claiming the MaxCDN account at the confirmation page after I renew?

I paid with my paypal for vbseo and use a credit card with maxcdn, all works well.
I'm still wondering why is my Insight account is a free instead premium

Originally Posted by Checkmate

I paid with my paypal for vbseo and use a credit card with maxcdn, all works well.
I'm still wondering why is my Insight account is a free instead premium

For me It didn't I did not see anything on the confirmation page :-s

Originally Posted by Checkmate

I paid with my paypal for vbseo and use a credit card with maxcdn, all works well.
I'm still wondering why is my Insight account is a free instead premium

Thanks for the confirmation.. Going to get it now.

Originally Posted by UnderEstimated

For me It didn't I did not see anything on the confirmation page :-s

Oops..!! Let me wait for the official reply then.

Originally Posted by UnderEstimated

For me It didn't I did not see anything on the confirmation page :-s

I think he actually purchased a separate MAXCDN account.

And yes, i didnt either. That’s because it says paypal isn’t supported for the promotion until monday.

Originally Posted by GotAffiliate

I think he actually purchased a separate MAXCDN account.

And yes, i didnt either. That’s because it says paypal isn’t supported for the promotion until monday.

Is't that for MAXCDN though not for this.

Originally Posted by UnderEstimated

Is't that for MAXCDN though not for this.

You’re supposed to get direction. All mine did was take me to purchase the full thing after already paying the renewal

Originally Posted by GotAffiliate

You’re supposed to get direction. All mine did was take me to purchase the full thing after already paying the renewal

This is what happened to me too.

Originally Posted by UnderEstimated

This is what happened to me too.

Hopefully we’re not screwed out of this promotion. They could give us access since we actually waited to renew for this promotion, or refund the money back and let us get the promotion in another mean.