vBSEO 3.6.0 Release Candidate 1 available for Licensed Customers!

Attention all vBSEO customers and friends, we are proud to announce that vBSEO 3.6.0 RC1 is now available for all licensed customers via the downloads area!

NOTE: We are still sorting a number of integration issues with MaxCDN, therefore, the free 1TB CDN account promo will be made available with vBSEO 3.6.0 Gold as to not further delay this release. For those currently using MaxCDN, or any other CDN solution, the vBSEO CP *includes* settings that allow you to configure your forum to work with your CDN.

vBSEO 3.6 Beta 1 Highlights

1. A full featured "Likes" system: A "Social Graph" for your community
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 (coming in vBSEO 3.6.0 Final), 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. MaxCDN Integration: Faster Sites = Better SEO
Search Engines will love you and your users will love you too. It has been proved 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 Beta 1 features MaxCDN integration via our dashboard.

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.

4. Other Enhancements

• Social Bookmark Support for the vBulletin CMS
• Relevant Replacements Support for the vBulletin CMS
• Bug Fixes

Release Candidate 1 Installation Tips and Important Notes

Update to the Social Bookmarking ("Share") functionality
The "Share" functionality, now listed as a link besides the "Like" link in postbit, requires an update. For a cleaner display, we suggest you change all your *custom* Social Bookmark icons to *remove* the descriptions (extra text). See the following example:

Old Format

Code:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=%url%,images/vbseo/facebook.gif,Share on Facebook,Share on Facebook

New Format

Code:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=%url%,images/vbseo/facebook.gif,Share on Facebook,Facebook

As you can see, the second part of the Bookmark text (bolded text) includes *only* the Social Site name.

Download Location & Installation Instructions

Download Location
All licensed customers may download the NEW vBSEO 3.6 RC 1 from the Downloads Area.

Installation & Upgrade
Find detailed installation and upgrade instructions within the readme.html file included in 'docs' folder of the installation package.

Beta & RC Software Note
Beta & RC software is not considered officially "stable" (Gold) software, therefore we do not recommend installing it in production environments.

Can I have Most Liked forum block in this release?
Thank you.

ok i am currently trying to install on this forum. and struggling.

vbseo cp does not give me a new key and the forum has become very slow :|

I have the exact same problem. Opened a critical support ticket also. But no reply yet. Please help!

just barely managed to disable the vbseo plugin to get the forum in working condition. hoping for a quick response here. as the backend support panel is also not working for me!

for some reason ajax based replying to a thread is not working after disabling vbseo. forum is still pretty darn slow. not sure what to do to fix it!

I have updated to vBSEO and everything went very slow, I went back to 3.5 and no problems with it.

Hello guys,

I'm terribly sorry for all the inconveniences. We had some random issues with our server that should be fixed now. Apologies for any inconvenience, and please try to get vBSEO-enabled your sites again.

Please don't hesitate in contacting us in case you find anything else out of place.

Kind regards.
Andrés.

i went back to beta. should i try RC1 again?

I had the same issue and things are going quick again with the upgrade. Thank Andrés, super support !

solved ?

any update with the live stats error :S

Please define your analytics login info in vB admincp->Options->LiveStats.

i keep getting it :S

seems to be working fine now!

Originally Posted by Sushubh

i went back to beta. should i try RC1 again?

Hello,

Yes please. The issues should be fixed now!.

Edit: Great!

Originally Posted by bollie

solved ?

Hello,

Yes, the issues have been fixed.

Originally Posted by robtbs

any update with the live stats error :S

Please define your analytics login info in vB admincp->Options->LiveStats.

i keep getting it :S

Hello Robert,

We will release an updated version for LiveStats with vBSEO 3.6 Gold.