SEO

Originally Posted by precharge

$35.00 may not seem like much and ultimately it isn't but I have 4 licenses on this account and at least 10 licenses through our consulting gigs. Ultimately it isn't about the money but the way in which it was handled, in fact it was only recently that vbSEO added the $35.00 to the actual order page which they should have all along.

After seeing the way in which this was handled, I decided that moving forward I was going to use other software. While a far less superior software, certainly business ethics means a lot and this is simply not ethical. Certainly we can get into a debate over whether it's fair or not for vbSEO to support a product for life without renewal fees which is fine but then don't deceive people with the concept of a "lifetime" license because then we are just arguing over semantics. Fact of the matter is when you are not privy to essential operational aspects of a software like security updates, then lifetime doesn't mean a hill of beans.

I think you are going to find that the majority of people were not aware of this aspect of the software and while it may only have had a marginal impact on sales being that I imagine that most vbSEO sales are in fact impulse buys, proper notification would have been the right thing. Proper notification of course being porperly and clearly noted on every part of the site that references price and not simply on a random page conveniently placed within mountains of text.

Ultimately when it comes down to it, it's become transparent, with this issue as well of the way in which vbSEO handled the branding free option that the core focus is about squeezing as much money out of their loyal user base as possible. While this can be said to have some truth to it with most businesses, building a foundation on a superior product along, forgetting about business ethics only last so long as it's not long before someone builds a better mouse trap.

Originally Posted by precharge

$35.00 may not seem like much and ultimately it isn't but I have 4 licenses on this account and at least 10 licenses through our consulting gigs. Ultimately it isn't about the money but the way in which it was handled, in fact it was only recently that vbSEO added the $35.00 to the actual order page which they should have all along.

After seeing the way in which this was handled, I decided that moving forward I was going to use other software. While a far less superior software, certainly business ethics means a lot and this is simply not ethical.

Originally Posted by Paul Govier

My Musclechat.co.uk Page Rank acutally dropped from 4 to 3 within a week of installing vBulletin Gold :(

Im just praying that UK-Muscle.co.uk dosnt do the same!!!!

Originally Posted by Grae

That quote is very frustrating for someone who has been waiting on a branding free option for well over a year. The recent limited ebay offering was ugly.

Originally Posted by obx11

I for one am with some here that I still can not bring myself to think that vbseo has done anything to my site forum. All the hoopla talk of getting indexed and spiders and so on and so on. It all comes down to back links and things like that. At this time I wont renew or pay anything. I get the same answers here (backlinks backlinks backlinks) Then I am told I need content. Ok fellows who wants to make a backlink link page? I for one will set one up on my site . If we get enough people with their sites heck we wont need vbseo

Originally Posted by Astroman

I agree, I don't think you should need to edit people's posts though just because they mention other software.

Originally Posted by I, Brian

Even though I would have expected vbseo to apply a subscription renewal to keep profitable, what's really annoying for myself is that 10 of my vbseo licences expired just 3 weeks before the subscription process began.