vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Released for vBSEO-enabled forums

[Juan Muriente]

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce we are now making the vBSEO skin available officially as a non-supported product.

There has been a very strong demand from our user base for this skin. Once our vBSEO 3.0 GOLD release was finalized, we made it a priority to get our skin into the hands of all vBSEO customers who have been requesting it.

Just for some background insight, here is the basic philosophy that we adhered to while designing the skin:

• Provide the maximum SEO value, with the minimal number of derivations from the vBulletin original.
• Reflect the spirit of the original vBulletin theme.
• Provide semantic value to the html output assigning highest significance to the site's name/logo (H1 in our case), H2 for the page title in forumdisplay and showthread, and intro in paragraph format using Relevant Replacements. This can be easily converted to an image logo/H1 forumdisplay and showthread title, H2 navbar breadcrumb (or H2 bulleted site navigation) and H3 for individual post titles, or similar layouts. You may discuss those here.
• Keep enhanced usability a top priority.

This much anticipated release is just one of several important announcements from vBSEO that will occur during the next few months!

vBSEO Owners:

• Download the Official vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Here
• Discuss Topics related to the vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Here

Thank-you for your continued support.

[X7N]

hmm I'll check it out and see

[Michael Biddle]

Great release. Thanks vBSEO

[Hoffi]

Good Idea.

What happens to other Styles with the Plugin? Did this work?

[Juan Muriente]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

What happens to other Styles with the Plugin? Did this work?

The vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Product will affect all styles in your instance.

To make it affect a specific style only, navigate to:
vBulletin admincp > vBulletin Options > vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Modifications

and enter the specific style you want the plugin to affect by defining the ID via:
Apply Modifications to specified style IDs

[Brandon Sheley]

Nice job guys

[nishv]

Excellent release

[barroca]

Tks for this!
Joao Barroca
aka beduino

[hornstar6969]

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce we are now making the vBSEO skin available officially as a non-supported product.

There has been a very strong demand from our user base for this skin. Once our vBSEO 3.0 GOLD release was finalized, we made it a priority to get our skin into the hands of all vBSEO customers who have been requesting it.

Just for some background insight, here is the basic philosophy that we adhered to while designing the skin:

• Provide the maximum SEO value, with the minimal number of derivations from the vBulletin original.
• Reflect the spirit of the original vBulletin theme.
• Provide semantic value to the html output assigning highest significance to the site's name/logo (H1 in our case), H2 for the page title in forumdisplay and showthread, and intro in paragraph format using Relevant Replacements. This can be easily converted to an image logo/H1 forumdisplay and showthread title, H2 navbar breadcrumb (or H2 bulleted site navigation) and H3 for individual post titles, or similar layouts. Please discuss here.
• Keep enhanced usability a top priority.

This much anticipated release is just one of several important announcements from vBSEO that will occur during the next few months!

vBSEO Owners, Download the Official vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Here

Thank-you for your continued support.

^^ I'll hold you to that lol... several important notifications by December

[fade]

Very nice,

but I have Problems to set it up:

So the Forumdescription and the Text to each Thread are not showing up. I think I have to setup Relevant Replacements?

Can anyone help me with this, I would go the same way as vbseo is doing here.

Another Question: How to make the Link Box on the forumhome like here the vbulletin related Links - Area?

Regards André

Never thougt that the Style will be released in this week. *g*

[TheMajesty]

Originally Posted by fade

So the Forumdescription and the Text to each Thread are not showing up. I think I have to setup Relevant Replacements?

Can anyone help me with this, I would go the same way as vbseo is doing here.

Yeah, hou have to..
Read the readme file !

Originally Posted by fade

Another Question: How to make the Link Box on the forumhome like here the vbulletin related Links - Area?

Admincp > vbulletin options > vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Modifications

Enable Forum Link Span Modification : set it to Yes

[sportsmedjosh]

Help please! - If you click on a link on my forum it goes to my old default skin. Can someone else please follow a link and click on a topic to verify this for me.

link to my site

[gedsta]

Originally Posted by sportsmedjosh

Help please! - If you click on a link on my forum it goes to my old default skin. Can someone else please follow a link and click on a topic to verify this for me.

link to my site

The vBSEO skin looks awful compared to your Blue and Pink (no disrespect to vBSEO) Stick to your existing one. Personnally it would put me off, a skin should be unique to a site not mirror someone elses.

[sportsmedjosh]

I'm going to change it up a little bit by hopefully changing the colours and also the icons.

[Juan Muriente]

Originally Posted by sportsmedjosh

Help please! - If you click on a link on my forum it goes to my old default skin. Can someone else please follow a link and click on a topic to verify this for me.

link to my site

I suggest you go to your vB admincp > vB Options > vBSEO.com 1.0 Style Modifications and enter the specific ID for the vBSEO skin as it is distorting your default (blue & pink) layout due to the header tags in the default vB headers.

Originally Posted by gedsta

a skin should be unique to a site not mirror someone elses.

Agree, you default skin looks very nice. I'd try to integrate the header SEO aspects of the vBSEO skin into your layout as opposed to changing the whole skin.

You may also want apply your default skin colors to the vBSEO skin. This is how a pre-release member's vBSEO template looks with a little tweaking: