How exactly does vBSEO work?

Hi,

I have a technical question regarding VBSEO, the way it works.

I believe your software makes use of mod_rewrite to obtain the friendly URLs. Could you please tell me how the process works?

I believe this is the process, but please let me know if this is correct:

1. Let's say a user creates a new thread in vBulletin forum.

2. Your mod_rewrite rules turn the URL from the original vBulletin scheme to the friendly URL. For instance (real sample):

http://www.comunidadhosting.com/showthread.php?t=7627

into something similar to:

http://www.comunidadhosting.com/Chroot-o-SELinux.htm

3. And then the new URL, with the .htm extension, is stored in vBulletin database, instead of the "showthread.php?t=7627" one.

Is all this process correct?

Thanks for your assistance. We're interested in buying your software for our vBulletin forum so I'm trying to learn how it works first.

vBSEO won't STORE the rewritten URLs anywhere.

It does all it's URL rewriting and replacement on-the-fly !
(according to the rewrite rules defined in your vbseo control panel)

vBSEO won't STORE the rewritten URLs anywhere.

It does all it's URL rewriting and replacement on-the-fly !
(according to the rewrite rules defined in your vbseo control panel)

Yes - vBSEO makes use of mod_rewrite (for Apache) and ISAPI_REWRITE on Windows IIS systems.

The process is:

• vBSEO converts all links on the site from the old (.php) to the new (.html) formats.
• When a vBSEO (.html) style link is clicked, vBSEO handles the request and provides the right page.
• When an old (.php) style link is clickced (if found somewhere else on the Web, etc), it will be automatically directed by vBSEO to the new (.html) page.

In basic, you can pick your desired URL format, and within a 5 minute install, your entire forum will be converted.

What URLs could be chosed from? If you have MANY incoming links, that are on many good pagerank sites, would this hurt the current search results, since all of them will be redirects?

In basic, you can pick your desired URL format, and within a 5 minute install, your entire forum will be converted.

All showthread.php links are 301'ed to the new Content Relevant URL.

as an example:

Code:

http://www.vbseo.com/showthread.php?t=23305

copy/paste that into a new window, and you will see you end up back on this thread with the proper SEO'ed url.

Thanks.