Forum Progress report - Sadoun.net -

[newseo1]

Forum: Sadoun Satellite Sales Forums
URL: http://www.sadoun.net

Installed VBSEO 3/17/06 with the help of Oleg

As of today 3/19/06

Pages in Google - 19,100

• VBSEO pages - 0

Pages in Yahoo - 5,500

• VBSEO pages - 1

Pages in MSN - 1,125

• VBSEO pages - 3

Threads: 5,227, Posts: 25,363, Members: 13,652
Google Page Rank: 5

Side note: Usually we get more guests than members viewing the forum (ratio of 5 : 1 ). How can we turn these guests into active members? Any suggestions?

[Ashley]

Originally Posted by newseo1

Side note: Usually we get more guests than members viewing the forum (ratio of 5 : 1 ). How can we turn these guests into active members? Any suggestions?

Same here, wish I knew the answerer. BTW Welcome to the forums.

1/ I was amazed when I installed the new skin on my site after being advised to here how many members PMed me to say what an improvement.

2/ I find that the number of forums 40+ scary and I would not join.

3/ The forums show to guests as all locked.

[Keith Cohen]

Try this:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99579

Just make sure you have the messages displayed below the Navbar.

[butty]

i recomend the welcome headers hack. im now getting 3 times more people sign up than i was before i had it on my forum

[newseo1]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Just make sure you have the messages displayed below the Navbar.

How would you do that? and why it should be below and not above the nav bar?

[Keith Cohen]

You don't want the extra text above the area where you have your Thread Titles/Forum Titles/Descriptions.

[newseo1]

Update:

Post vbSEO: The forums now are running slower to open and view threads than pre vBSEO.

Any suggestions?

[Keith Cohen]

vBSEO does use more CPU than standard vB, but it shouldn't be a lot. No way around that. What were your server load levels before, and what are they now?

[newseo1]

Good question. I didn't measure that pre or post vBSEO. I will check and report back. If I add mod_gzip, would that affect the functions of the forums?

[Keith Cohen]

If you add mod_gzip, make sure you turn off vBulletin's internal gzip option.

[newseo1]

Where do you do that?
Does mod_gzip have better performance than VB's internal gzip?
Do you know of any issues with mod_gzip and FireFox users?

[Keith Cohen]

I asked that question here a while back: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147524

vBulletin's gzip option:

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> GZIP HTML Output

[newseo1]

Since only VB is running here, I will leave it as is.

post VBSEO: Server Load Averages 1.29 1.42 1.65

[newseo1]

Hi, all

I installed the Welcome Headers plug in. Here is how it looks: http://www.sadoun.net/

Let me know if anyone has ny comments.

Indexing report

Pages in Google -
3/19 19,100
3/27 19,000

VBSEO pages
3/19 0
3/27 10

Page Rank
3/19 5/10
3/27 5/10

Pages in Yahoo -
3/19 5,500
3/27 5,600

VBSEO pages
3/19 1
3/27 0


Pages in MSN
3/19 1,125
3/27 89

VBSEO pages
3/19 3
3/27 63

[newseo1]

Hi all

It seems like Google is indexing the main forums only, but not the threads.
site:www.sadoun.net vbseo

Is that normal?