vbadvanced and vbseo

Hi I'm about to buy vbseo but my website makes heavy use of vbadvanced and pretty much all the content in the homepage is a "latest threads" module featuring just the latest threads created.
Is this something not recommended? Or is it ok?

Hello,

vBSEO is fully compatible with vBa cmps, there should be no issues with it.
You can even rewrite vBa URLs using vBSEO's Custom Rewrite Rules.

would it be also ok if i install now vbadvanced
already have vbseo since june on my /forum Bonus Paradise Gambling Forum

Its always hard for me to add pages and stuff to my / Casino Bonus Paradise
will vb advanced make this all easier?

Really dont want to screw up something, lol
cuz now my SE traffic starting to raise nice for the forum.

Thanks in advance for your advise guys
appreciate it

Marina

I'm using vBAdvanced and vBSEO on CWE. It works great.

Originally Posted by zglowsy

Hi I'm about to buy vbseo but my website makes heavy use of vbadvanced and pretty much all the content in the homepage is a "latest threads" module featuring just the latest threads created.
Is this something not recommended? Or is it ok?

I'm not a big fan of focusing on recent threads on the vBA homepage. If you want to submit your forum for review prior to getting vBSEO, please post in our critique forum and I or other staff and members will give you some feedback.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

I'm not a big fan of focusing on recent threads on the vBA homepage.

Joe, would you mind expounding upon that (either here or in a different thread)? I have been contemplating a redo of one of my sites' front page and so I'd be interested in hearing different opinions on the 'idea' front page.

Using "recent" threads is just a list of the last few posted. It says nothing about the quality of the content, how well optimized it is, etc.

Since they can get that with a new posts link, because it directs traffic to low value content, dilutes link value passed to those pages, and often will contain threads with low chance of encouraging click through, I would rather spare all those negatives, and simply focus on different types of content for the homepage.

Top threads, staff blogs, staff stickies, etc would be better choices than recent threads.

ok and what about this:
I'd like people to focus on threads instead of forums.
So I designed a homepage based on displaying threads directly and I'm giving no access to the default forum listing.
Is that a good idea? Please let me know what is the recommended homepage configuration for what I want.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Using "recent" threads is just a list of the last few posted. It says nothing about the quality of the content, how well optimized it is, etc.

Since they can get that with a new posts link, because it directs traffic to low value content, dilutes link value passed to those pages, and often will contain threads with low chance of encouraging click through, I would rather spare all those negatives, and simply focus on different types of content for the homepage.

Top threads, staff blogs, staff stickies, etc would be better choices than recent threads.

Joe, some interesting 'food for thought' with that approach. Thanks for explaining.

Originally Posted by ezequiel

ok and what about this:
I'd like people to focus on threads instead of forums.
So I designed a homepage based on displaying threads directly and I'm giving no access to the default forum listing.
Is that a good idea? Please let me know what is the recommended homepage configuration for what I want.

The same would apply to you in terms of promoting better quality threads on your homepage.

However, I am not sure about removing the idea of "category" throughout your entire site, if that is what you have done.

I have participated on forums, where I spent almost all my time in one category only. The rest of the forums were of lower interest to me. Had it been missing category, it would have been more difficult for me to find what I was looking for. In my case, this may likely have resulted in me participating less frequently.