Presales Q.: vbPortal, vbGallery

A few questions, I hope you don't mind (I read quite a bit already, but it is an overwhelming # of posts)

a) I'm running vbPortal, vbGallery and vBulletin. If vBulletin is in /forums, vbPortal is installed in root, vBGallery is installed in /gallery. Will the SEO work on all of those?

b) I see my ranking is 2 at MySite.nl, but www.mysite.nl/forums has a ranking of 0. Will vBSEO fix this? In other words, will my root, /forums and my /gallery all be indexed and ranked in a similar manner (which of course in a while should be >= 2 I assume, since ranking of 2 is what I get without SEO).

I hope you can answer these questions, I hope I make sense to you.

<deleted> This was a mess, sorry.

Just one more.

I have http://www.dutch-dig.com, http://www.dutch-dig.nl, http://www.ddig.nl, which all redirect to http://www.d-dig.nl

Is this a problem regarding SEO?

Well, meanwhile I've done a *lot* of reading. It doesn't seem that VBSEO is able to rewrite vbGallery nor vbPortal since my domain structure is:

/
/gallery
/forums

where '/' equals to vbPortal, and no,

I can't (won't) move both /gallery and /forums to / since imho that would create one big mess.

I would have expected that both /gallery, /, and /forums would be handled by vbseo, since both vbGallery and vbPortal are vBulletin plugins. Of course I hope to hear from you that it can be done somehow.

Anyone? Is this a foolish question?

Originally Posted by DDIG

I have dutch-dig.com, dutch-dig.nl, ddig.nl which all redirect to d-dig.nl
Is this a problem regarding SEO?

As long as you 301 redirect all the page requests from those additional domains to your primary domain,
it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks! I hope someone can provide an answer to post #4

That's the most important thing that I'd love to see answered prior to my purchase.

It is possible to rewrite vBGallery URLs wuith Custom Rewrite Rules defined in vBSEO CP. In case if it resides in different folder, a special .htaccess will be required in gallery folder.

Exact .htaccess contents depends on where is gallery installed and what is the forums location. In this case it would be:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  ../forums/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&vbseorelpath=../gallery/&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ ../forums/vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&vbseorelpath=../gallery/&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thanks al lot for your reply.

If you can assure me that vbportal which is installed in / (root), and vbGallery which is installed in /gallery can both be processed by vbSEO, I wil go ahead, purchase vbSEO and be a happy costumer. I couldn't find an answer to this question in the public forums.

Originally Posted by DDIG

Thanks al lot for your reply.

If you can assure me that vbportal which is installed in / (root), and vbGallery which is installed in /gallery can both be processed by vbSEO, I wil go ahead, purchase vbSEO and be a happy costumer. I couldn't find an answer to this question in the public forums.

I need CRR for vbportal too. Please remember that now vbportal is changed and all the module is like this

http://www.yoursite.com/modules/modulename/index.php

Originally Posted by DDIG

Thanks al lot for your reply.

If you can assure me that vbportal which is installed in / (root), and vbGallery which is installed in /gallery can both be processed by vbSEO, I wil go ahead, purchase vbSEO and be a happy costumer. I couldn't find an answer to this question in the public forums.

I'm not clear on what the answer is here. I seem to recall reading that neither vbPortal nor vbAdvanced work well with vbSEO.

Is this true and if so are there any alternatives that do work well with vbSEO?

Out of the box they don't but you can write custom CRRs

I was not able to create those which I find a bit disapointing. vbSEO is great, but a bit of 3rd party support would be very nice. There are many forums that have a CMS / Gallery, one would expect that the most common solutions like vbGallery, Photopost, VBAdvanced and vbPortal etc. would have native vbSEO support.

Originally Posted by DDIG

Out of the box they don't but you can write custom CRRs

I was not able to create those which I find a bit disapointing.

You mean you were unable to do it yourself? Would the custom CRRs be a one-time thing? Did you shop it around to get a price for someone to do it - like maybe vbPortal, vbSEO, or someone at vbOrg?

Nope. I would expect 'some' support. When I purchased vbSEO I was told it was no problem, both vbPortal and vbGallery would be able to use vbSEO, later on it became clear that I was to write CRRs myself. Believe me, I tried. But it didn't work. Never mind that, vbSEO works fine for my forum but not for the CPMS / Gallery I use. I think it would be great if you CRR guru's would sit down on a rainy afternoon and create some CRR's for commonly used portal / gallery solutions. For you vbSEO developers it's a piece of cake since you know these things inside-out. You would even be able to sell these CRR's as plugins or something. I'd be willing to pay if the pricing is reasonable, as would many other forum users, of that I am sure.