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I see, thank you for explaining the differences between soft and hard delete.

I've printed the Stuff to do to get started topic and will be reading that on the way home.

Is there anything I should know/do when installing vBulletin initially? That is, I have been reading the Impex doc and it says, for instance,
Does this or any other decision at the initial vb install have any consequence for vbseo or seo in general? Which is the better route, attachments in the database or file system?

Should vbseo be installed before or after I import my site's database, or is it of no consequence?

Thanks!

When you import your data first import the to database. It is easier that way. When you are done you should move them to filesystem as keeping them inside database increase database size a lot which may cause problems during backups.

vBSEO should be installed after vBulletin installation as vBSEO needs vBulletin to run.

I just purchased vBulletin and am installing it. vbseo is next. I have to decide whether or not to use a prefix for the vBulletin tables. Does using a prefix or not have any effect/impact on the ease of configuring vBseo? Is it generally a good idea to specify a table prefix, or no? Waiting to hear back before proceeding. Thanks!

its good to use vb3_ as a prefix or something similar. Its just easier organizational wise, though it has no effect unless for whatever reason you'd need to install two copies of vBulletin on the same database (very rare for this need)

Thanks for the quick response, FightRice!