few questions before i buy this

Johnny_D · #1 05-31-2007, 04:10 PM

q1: Multiple domains and one license
curently i have one license and my forum is acesible from more than one url ... kinda like here :

MSC Forum
MSC Forum
MSC Forum

same content..diffrent url

and i need the things to stay the same if i am gonna use the vbSEO (rewriting urls)

if i am gonna use vbseo my content will continue to be accessed from more than one url?

Keith Cohen · #2 05-31-2007, 04:29 PM

No, vBSEO uses the Forum URL as defined in your vBulletin AdminCP. Plus, having the same content under multiple URLs only hurts your SEO.

Johnny_D · #3 05-31-2007, 05:18 PM

well i really need the content on my forum to be accesed from the other urls...is no problem if could be accesed at least in the old fashion way:
http://www.other-forum-name/showthread.php?p=threadid

Keith Cohen · #4 05-31-2007, 05:30 PM

You're giving your donkey multiple rear-ends by doing that: Pin the Tail on the SEO Donkey (with Link Consensus)!

Johnny_D · #5 05-31-2007, 05:35 PM

i dont think i understand what u tried to say there but if u ar sayin that google will see it as duplicat content...i would retrict google indexing forum pages in the forum area in all the urls except the one i purchase vbseo for

Keith Cohen · #6 05-31-2007, 05:36 PM

Read the link and it will be clear.

Johnny_D · #7 05-31-2007, 05:44 PM

i really need my forum to be accesed from diffrent urls

oky lets say i buy vbseo for www.the-x-domanin.net , and vbseo does his job and everything is oky

it is very important for me to acces content from www.the-y-domain.net (all links using this url wont be indexed in google so is not an problem with duplicate content) at least in the old fashion vbulletin way (showtread, showpost etc)

is that posible?

libertylounge · #8 05-31-2007, 06:17 PM

All of those old URL's will be redirected to the new and improved ones, so anyone who tried to access a showthread.php?t=34092 link would be forwarded to /your-link/structure/title-of-thread-or-whatever.html automatically.

I'm not sure why you would want your forum to be accessible from those multiple URL's, though, it hurts you and they do penalize you for multiple content, meaning your ranking for certain key words, etc, is diluted needlessly.

Although buying vBSEO would certainly help you, you will be actively working against your purchase and the software by not allowing vBSEO to build link consensus to threads on your forums.. It doesn't make any sense.

Why do you think you NEED it to be accessed from each of those URL's individually? You're not getting ANY benefit from it from a SEO perspective.

The smart thing to do would be to provide redirects from your other domains to one, single domain so that anyone trying to access the content from one URL would simply be forwarded to the one domain you're using.

So, if someone went to, say: mscclan.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11401 or macsubculture.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11401, they would be redirected to mac-gamer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11401

Johnny_D · #9 06-01-2007, 12:33 PM

so there is not a chance to access it from more than one url if i am gonna use vbseo....

briansol · #10 06-01-2007, 12:49 PM

vbseo currently supports one domain.

you can set up the-y.com to 301 to the-x.com, and have the-x.com be your main forum.

people can still access the site via the-y.com, but onpageload, they will be directed to the-x.com

libertylounge · #11 06-01-2007, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny_D

so there is not a chance to access it from more than one url if i am gonna use vbseo....

It really depends how your setup is.

If you're using a hosting company like dreamhost, you can simply point all your domains to one folder and they'll load all the same content even though they'd be accessible through multiple URL's

You still haven't said why this is something you feel you need, though.. especially as someone who's looking into SEO solutions for your page

Johnny_D · #12 09-09-2007, 02:41 PM

oky and lets say i point
www.x.com to /root/
www.y.com to /root/forum
and
www.w.com to /root/

i will acces my forum like this :
www.x.com/forum
www.y.com
www.w.com/forum
and i put a robots.txt , restricting the /forum/ in this way google will not index my www.x.com/forum/* and www.z.com/forum/* and there for will not consider it duplicate content

but i really need vbseo to keep allowing my users to acces the forum via www.x.com/forum and via www.z.com/forum because in my case www.x.com iti is the website of a city (www.new-york.com - travel, tours, hotels and more for example) and www.w.com is the website of another city and would be very wierd if lets say new-york-erz would talk in a forum of which url would be redirected to www Chicago.com (example) . Thats why i need my forum to be accesed via diffrents url

Is that posible using vbseo? or not?

Johnny_D · #13 09-17-2007, 03:24 PM

so can someone plzzz tell me it will work or not?

Joe Ward · #14 09-17-2007, 03:36 PM

I do not believe this configuration will work Daniel. You can only have 1 forum URL set-up in the vBulletin Settings, and vBSEO will use that to do all URL rewriting.

Therefore, even if you access the site from a different URL, vBSEO would end up rewriting the links on the page to the URL set in your configuration settings.

I am not aware of any workaround for this, at present time.

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