VBSEO comapred to free alternatives?

Hi, ive been in interested in making my forum seo frinedly for a while now i currently have vRewrite installed on my forum, im looking to see what advantages VBSEO could give me.
With free alternatives like vRewrite around what can VBSEO offer to me that isnt already available for free?

I know the VBSEO interface is alot more comprehensive but what else matters if the url is re-written and you have a sitemap generator isnt that all you need?
What else does VBSEO do to build on this? Thxs

a) The sitemap generator will not generate the re-written URLs unless you have vBSEO. In other words, if you use one of the free alternatives, you will be telling Google/Yahoo to spider the dynamic URLs that vB uses by default.

b) vBSEO rewrites almost every dynamic URL on you vBulletin Forum. The free alternatives reqrite some, or most. But not all.

c) The support here is beyond excellent. I have always said that, now I am Staff it does sound a little biased, but there you go.

d) The community. Instead of a single thread, here you have an entire site devoted to the topic of SEOing your vBulletin.

Just read these forums, see the comments from so many happy customers, and the few unhappy ones quickly become satisifed when Oleg jumps in and fixes everything.

vBSEO is a full SEO solution, not just a rewrite. Check out our Custom Rewrite Rules (CRRs) and Relevant Replacements. These are some of our more popular features, but (as you can see from the control panel) there are many, many more.

If rewriting is your main goal, vBSEO is the only solution available that gives you complete flexibility on how you set-up your static URLs.

The new 2.4.5 release (coming soon) will have features that will be a must-have for all vB forum owners.

As Ace mentioned one of the most impressive aspects of vBSEO is that you are not just purchasing a fantastic forum search engine optimization tool, but, you are also buying into a service. Whereby you will receive support on plentiful issues not just pertaining to vBSEO but also howto improve your onpage keyword density and be provided with other general support on a wide variety of aspects on forum SEO.

vBSEO also provides you with a complete SEO solution. You are in complete control of how your links appear, with freely distributed programs such as vRewrite, there isnt the capability to rewrite URLs for third party modifications, yet with vBSEO this becomes eloquently easy and a joy to do.

And i have also heard through the grapevine that features are fast in development which will trump those such as CRR and Relevant Replacements. The development, enegry and hardwork being put into the product and its support by the vBSEO Support Team means that you're sure to get value for money.

You heard through the right grapevine Michael.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

You heard through the right grapevine Michael.

From what my "source" mentioned, sounds like your combining one of the best aspects of blogging functionality into discussion boards. Which should hopefully bring about a whole new level of participation within forums and improve the "forum-o-sphere" (Well if bloggers can have their own sphere, so can we) dramatically. Did i mention no pressure?

I cannot confirm or deny such reports at this time.