Archive for November, 2008
Latter vBulletin versions 3.6 and beyond come with a new built in feature called the notification system that is awesome for sparking up some conversation or getting new members helped around the site. Whenever someone decides to join a forum, its usually because they have something to share, or are looking to get information from the forum. Most the time, it takes a great deal of debate from that person if your site is worth the hassle of joining, and then learning how to post.
This is what makes the notification system so great, when used with our vBulletin Guest Registration modification you can instantly increase your forums activity ten fold among the new members.
First you’ll want to ensure you have our latest version of guest redirection system installed as it lets you specify a custom forum id to send new members to after registration. Next open up your adminCP and navigate to the notices menu over on the left hand side.
For our first notice we’re going to setup a basic new member notice that has 0 posts, telling them how easy and fun it is to participate in our forums. At the Add New Notice screen enter the following information. You’ll probably want to customize it some to meet your forum needs.
Title: New Member Posting
Notice Html: <p>Welcome to our community {username}, </p>
<p>Thanks for taking the few seconds to sign up, and we hope it was an easy experience for you. Now that you’re a member you can start making posts, and replying to existing ones. Start by making an intro post in this forum telling us a little about yourself.</p>
<p>You’ll find our staff always friendly and willing to help should you have any problems, thanks for registering and we’ll see you around!</p>
<p>Best Regards,<br />
Forum Staff</p>
Active: Yes
Persistent: Yes (personal choice, can be now as well)
Next we’re going to set the options to ensure only members with 0 posts can view the notice. We don’t want to annoy or upset our current members by displaying something not meant for them.
Scroll down, and about half way down the options check the box for “User has never posted”.
Hit Save. Thats all there is to it, your forum will instantly become more personalized for the new member making them feel right at home. We hope you find this guide useful, and you can put it to good use.
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The system is completely controlled via the adminCP that is easy to turn certain redirects on or off, add your own custom message, enable a fast registration and login block. The Guest Redirection System Professional allows you to choose if you want to use our highly customizable page with a fast registration, or the standard vBulletin registration page.
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- Our quick registration supports all forms of human verification options, capthca, re-captcha, question and answer are all no problem! NEW!
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Demo & Support Forums
Making use of <h2> through <h6> tags on your page will build a solid page structure and inform the spiders of the most important content sections, followed by sections which may not be so important. When a crawler comes across content in the <h2> tags it naturally thinks to itself, that whatever is between those tags, the page should generally be about. Concidently when you have a properly written page title for search engine optimization, the h2 tags will also contain many of the same keywords.
Placing the h2 and h3 tags on your vBulletin page is as simple as pie. Unless you can’t cook, but its still fairly simple and straight forward. We assume that you have a basic knowledge of how to modify your templates, and if not, now would be a good time to check out the vBulletin Manual on how to do so.
On your showthread template, after $navbar place the following code:
<div style=”text-align:center”>
<h2 class=”seovb2″>$thread[title_clean]</h2>
<h3 class=”seovb3″>Discuss $thread[title_clean] at $foruminfo[title_clean]</h3>
</div>
For your forumdisplay template place the following code after $navbar:
<div style=”text-align:center;”>
<h2 class=”seovb2″>$foruminfo[title_clean]</h2>
<h3 class=”seovb3″>$foruminfo[description]</h3>
</div>
The final step, is so you can apply styling to the tags, to better match your page style, and hopefully not take as much space up, in your additional CSS definitions place:
h2.seovb2 {font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;}
h3.seovb3 {font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;}
By doing this, you’re placing your forum keywords on the page along with the description, and for the showthread pages it should place the thread title and forum above the fold and in a easy location so the cralwers know what the page is about.
Every vBulletin forum that is freshly installed has almost no search engine optimization work done to it. To remedy this and increase your rankings we’re giving you 5 of our best vBulletin search engine optimization tips away for free. We’re also including these tips with all new vBulletin installations that are ordered for a limited time.
- Store your CSS style sheets in the file system. Reduce your page load times, and the amount of code spiders see before hitting your actual content.
- Use a valid vBulletin approved robots.txt file to limit duplicate content
- Ensure that you’re vBulletin settings for messaging and editing options to automatically quote the post title are enabled
- Remove the “Powered by vBulletin” from your vBulletin <title> tags.
- Build and submit a sitemap using the sitemap generator to Google Webmaster Tools.
These five tips will be a solid foundation for improving your vBulletin’s search engine optimization. Remember that content is king, and back links are the queen to further enhance your site’s ranking.
Official Support Help Desk Now Open
| CommentsWe’ve had our share of communication problems here lately with us not getting emails, and our clients unable to receive our emails. To remedy this situation we’ve decided that installing an official support help desk is the most viable solution at this time.
The software we’re using is pretty common around the internet and most users should be familiar with using it. All current and former clients can easily submit a ticket, fill in the requested information and have their work performed within 24 hours*.
We hope you’re as excited about this as we are. It will let us track progress for your projects along with past and current issues on file. When you submit your first ticket, be sure to include all the requested information to speed the process up. We’re working on getting SSL to our support section, your information that is currently submitted there is still 100% safe.
You can find the support help desk by clicking the “Support” link in the navigation menu. You can submit a ticket any time, and tickets are free to create so feel free to make one for every contact with us!
Hosting Review Shop
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Using Word Press combined with a powerful review script, we were able to help the owner achieve their goals by making thousands of affiliate sales each month while remaining focused on running their web site.
The hosting review shop is a great resource to go get user powered feedback about the various hosting companies out there.
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Officer Resource Forums
| CommentsOfficer Resource is the internets fastest growing law enfocement resource site on the internet. Using vBulletin and currently Joomla framework bridged together, Officer Resource has members from all fields of law enfocement and is a great resource for anyone looking for information regarding the profession.
Officer Resource needed a vBulletin Guru to help manage their forum, and thats exactly what they found in using my services. vBulletin upgrades are applied within 24 hours of release, server maintenance, modifications, and template management are just some of the services we’ve offered Officer Resource. Not to mention their up coming switch from Joomla to wordpress loaded with tons of custom features!
Head over to the Largest Police Officer Forums and Resource site on the internet.
Yellow Bullet
| CommentsYellow Bullet is a vBulletin powered forum pushing around more than 80,000 threads and over a million posts with any where from 300 to 900 users online their server was coming to a screeching halt.
Contacted by the site owner, a server and vBulletin optimization was on order for the tune up, and the difference that we made was immediately felt. Prior to the optimization, the forum members had planned a revolt that we put a brake on!
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Their site is now running like a finely tuned car! Be sure to check out their Yellow Bullet Forums to see what the site is all about!
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