SEO

The host says it's a RSS-feed on a blog connected to my forum that's going nuts, but it happend after installing vBSEO.

To better integrate the blog and forum, I have put the RSS-feed from the article blog to post in the forum and likewise my forum posts to display in a RSS-feed in the sidebar of the article blog.

The host also notice that the site over all uses an enormous amount of bandwidth now. Any idea what to do? The usual thing has been to uninstall a mod or something when this has happened (it has on some occations, very frustrating when one of my sites is getting a lot of traffic and suddenly it's shut down...). But I really don't want to uninstall vBSEO as I believe the forum can really do well with it.

Any idea what to do?

I guess it is actually the vB RSS feed that is using the most resources as it is being called every time a page in your blog is displayed.

I find that RSS feeds are more useful for autoblogs than for members. You could try turning them off for a day or 2 to see if it changes. Maybe your host is talking about search engines downloading a sitemap everyday (although that is only small)?

Try putting:
in your robots.txt to slow down yahoo and maybe conserve a bit of bandwidth.


vBSEO is designed to get you lots more hits (bots can contribute to quite a bit of BW), so you do have to take that into the equation. If your host can't keep up now it's time to find new hosting. Try out Brians thread: Good web hosts for VBSEO-powered forums

All in all (other than more people visiting your forum) vBSEO doesn't consume more bandwidth.

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Ah. Thanks for clearing that up.