is vbseo compatible with UTF-8 forums (Français)

[svanderclock]

Hello,

More question:

1/ is vbseo compatible with UTF-8 forums ?

2/ for bulletin in foreign language (russian), how it's work? all the char are not in ascii but in cyrrilic (encoded in UTF8) ! what the url will look like ? can you gave me some exemple ?

thanks you by advance
stéphane

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

yes, vBSEO is UTF-8 compatible, you can set "Keep non-English characters in URLs" option in vBSEO Control Panel and enable UTF8 option in vBSEO config file to have URLs similar to wikipedia:
????????? ???????? ? ?????????

[Joe Ward]

Stéphane - do you have any other questions we can help you with? We're excited to have you join us and get your forum vBSEO-optimized with plenty of time to make 2008 and uber successful year for your forum.

[svanderclock]

hello joe

I m at 99.99% sur to buy your product, cause it's look very good ! i undersand how you support utf8 now ... not very good for seo to have url like ????????? ???????? ? ????????? .... it's better to have 123122/ ? ????????? ... but i saw in your demo that you can do it (we can fully configure how the url will look like, so powerfull!!) ... so it's great !

I stell not really understand your story about linkback, pinckback, thingback, etc... can you explain me how it's work ? how it's work in vbseo ?

[Joe Ward]

A very basis explanation to our *linkback* system, is simply:

Automatic links *to* and *from* your forum and other sites (such as blogs/forums).

A user links to a blog on your site, and you *might* get a link *from that blog*, *to your site*.

Each of your thread pages will also keep track of links to itself. On each page it will contain a list of links that were created *to your site*, *from other blogs/forums*.

Havings links to/from your site and others (if the sites are of similar topics) is good for SEO.

[svanderclock]

but how it's work in vbseo?

A user links to a blog on your site, and you *might* get a link *from that blog*, *to your site*.

how to check that i get a link from that blog to my site ? manually or do you have a tools for that? if yes how it's work?

[Joe Ward]

Let's say you post a link to a blog with a post on your forum. vBSEO then sends a *pingback* to the blog, letting it know that you have placed a link.

• The blog *may* then post a snippet containing a portion of your post and the link back to it, in the comments area.
• *If* this happens (depends on the blog settings/admin), the blog will then notify vBSEO that it has created a link.
• It is *at this point* that the blog linkback *to your site* will be displayed in your linkback section.

vBSEO has essentially enabled forums to act just like blogs when it comes to pingbacks and trackbacks.

And we created vBSEO's proprietary RefBacks which have since been duplicated all over the Web by other software providers. This allows us to build links *from* our forums, *to* external sites that are also linking to us.

Remember: Inbound and outbound links are good for SEO, but only when they are relevant. That is why we have built an easy to use moderating system allowing you to instantly approve/disapprove or delete any linkback you receive.

[svanderclock]

vBSEO then sends a *pingback* to the blog

how vbseo send a *pingback* ? what protocol? by email?? i not understand ...

what protocol/standart of comunication do you use to manage all of this ?

[Joe Ward]

Pingback is a request sent by the HTTP protocol. vBSEO sends these in the background.

Any content management system has the ability to do them if they choose to implement them within their code.

Prior to vBSEO's adding them to vBulletin, they were almost exclusively used only in blogs.

When adding the linkback system to vBSEO, vBSEO creator Juan Muriente, recognized and stated the new features ability to start the "convergence of the blogosphere with the forumsphere".

Check out:
Pingback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
XML-RPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[svanderclock]

ok, but it's need special implementation on both site? lot of website have this enabled today ? it's really usefull ?

[briansol]

Ping back is built in to vbseo, and uses some of vBulletin's core system ajax to do the request.

As long as your site has it enabled, you will be able to both send and receive.
If a "B" site RPC's your site, vbseo will pick up the ping/link/track back.
If the "B" site does not have it enabled, no harm done-- you just sent a request that went unanswered is all.

[Joe Ward]

ok, but it's need special implementation on both site? lot of website have this enabled today ? it's really usefull ?

It's a very common. It's enabled on millions of blogs and thousands of vBSEO-enabled forums.

Gaining links to your site from other relevant sites is one of the most influential SEO aspects at your disposal. Our linkback system provides an opportunity for this to occur almost without any effort at all.

Are you ready to join the thousands of others who have vBSEO enabled their forums?