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We are excited to announce that we are now offering VPS and Dedicated hosting plans besides our the Shared hosting plan. The VPS and Dedicated hosting plans comes with many great features and offers including these items:
- FREE Initial SEO Service Package that is worth $125.
- FREE SEO Monthly Monitoring Service (Plan I).
- Special discounts for any of our vBulletin services!
- Team of vBulletin specialists to service your forums when needed.
- Server specialists to support your server 24/7/365
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vBulletin 4.0 Demo Site is Up.
| CommentsAs promised, a demo site of vBulletin 4.0 was set up for you to try out the functions (http://seovb.com/forum). Please try it out and post your feedbacks and suggestions there. If you want to see the AdminCP or ModCP on the new vBulletin 4.0 please PM me on the test forum, and I’ll set one up for you. We will communicate to you via another newsletter or you can follow us on Twitter @seovb or our website for the latest breaking news on vBulletin.
We have not been very vocal about the new vBulletin 4.0 release process. We would like to actually see and use the product first before we formulate our opinions about this new version. We will be sending out our findings and opinions in the next newsletter.
Meanwhile, please follow us on Twitter to get the most recent news from us.
Thanks,
SEOvB.com
Updates: We removed the demo site from public, if you need to view the demo site please contact us at: info@seovb.com.
vBulletin 4.0 will be available soon
| CommentsThis is a quick note to alert you that we are fully engaged with the Internet Brands, vBulletin.com and vBulletin.org to discover more about vBulletin 4.0. As soon as we receive the software, a demo site of vBulletin 4.0 will be set up for you to try out the functions. We will communicate to you via another newsletter or you can follow us onTwitter @seovb or our website for the latest breaking news on vBulletin.
The presale event for vBulletin will continue until the end of October, 2009. Even though there are many features promised by the vBulletin team, there is no demo, video, or documents to provide further information. There are only a few screenshots available. We would like to quickly address a few common questions from our clients as follows:
1) Should I purchase the upgrade?
As long as you are still holding a valid Owned License, you can get the free upgrade to 4.0. HOWEVER,
A) We are still trying to confirm if we need to pay for the upgrade to access any future upgrade on 4.x.x or 5.x.x.
B) You will need to pay $130 if you want to get the the Publishing Suite
2) Should I take advantage of the Presale Sales?
If you and your community are happy with vBulletin and you are planning to run your community for a long time, then our recommendation is YES. Take advantage of the presale event and get a discounted price.
3) Will my current theme and mods work with the vBulletin 4.0?
The answer is NO for the themes and MAYBE for the mods. As we have learned, none of the current themes will work under the 4.0 version unless it has been modified. The mods depend upon the implementation and coding. Some mods that do not entirely depend on the vBulletin functions and hooks might work, but all will have to be tested.
4) Should I plan on migrating my Wordpress or Joomla to the Publishing Suite?
Wordpress and Joomla have been on the market for a long period of time and were tested and well supported by many plugins. The main benefit to move to the Publishing Suite is the integration between the Blog and the Forum. At this time, we still need to see the real product before we can provide further recommendations.
At this point, we cannot make any solid recommendations for our clients to move to version 4.0. We would like to see more evidence that the new version is as solid and as stable as the current versions and that the features are all mature enough to support your community. Remember, the vBulletin team clearly indicated that version 4.0 is a complete rewrite.
We will send out another newsletter when we get more information. Meanwhile, please follow us on Twitter to get the most recent news from us.
Thanks,
SEOvB.com
Google does not index the Meta Keyword
| CommentsKeywords meta tag issues in regard to search engine results have been a growing hot topic in the world of online business. People are often curious, and sometimes quite nervous about how often Google uses “keyword/s” meta tags in its web search rankings. There are sometimes arguments and even issues with people getting angry about one person using another person’s name and such as keywords to draw in hits on web searches. In fact there have been many lawsuits filed for just this reason, where people feel someone has unjustly used a keyword or several keywords that he or she uses in her own keywords. Perhaps Suzie and Bill are in the same industry and drawing from the same customer pool. Both are seeking to draw customer attention to their own website. Then Suzie finds out that Bill has used her business name and some of their best lines in his own keyword field. Does Suzie have a problem? Google says no.
While these things can become hot topics, especially in regards to business and drawing in new customers to one’s website, Google representatives say there is little to no reason for people to get upset about keyword usage when it comes to the ever-popular Good web search. Google now admits that it almost never uses “keywords” meta tag in its web search rankings, unlike some of the other search engines.
Google does use some meta tags for the Google Search Appliance so that people can specify only return results if matches a certain meta tag, but this is not relevant for the main core web search. They simply have found that people have expanded the keywords far too much for the information to be useful. In an effort to draw in web traffic they have actually watered it down so much that most people have a difficult time finding a website that is relevant.
Google does use meta description, however. Often a good meta description tag that is considered useful, it will be used in whole or in part in their own snippet in the search result. Again this is different than keyword meta tag. Google simply feels the keywords field is not helpful in bringing searchers the relevant links and therefore ignores the keywords meta tag.
So when it comes to keywords meta tag and Google search results, there is no need to fret if a competitor or unfriendly neighbour copies a word or two. It will make no difference to how many Google searchers are directed towards your website.
When was the last time that you check your settings? Or do you even know where do you specify the Meta Keyword and Description?
Admincp => vBulletin Options => General Settings
Hot Huskers
| CommentsHot Huskers is the site for all University of Nebraska Huskers Sports.
Football, basketball, volleyball and every other sport that has a team at the University of Nebraska is covered at this site.
Using a custom social media interface for the front end, combined with vBulletin to deliver a place for members to chat with other “Husker Hotties”, their site is well on the way to plowing down the competition.
Hot Huskers uses the following services from SEOvB:
- vBulletin Upgrade
- Custom Theme Design
- Custom Logo
- Small SEO Package
Properly Backing Up Your vBulletin Database
| CommentsThis is our first article in a series that will outline how to properly backup your entire site and use it to setup a test environment on your current hosting account.
When you install vBulletin, one of its core components is the MySQL database. This database holds all the information for your entire site including settings, templates, users, posts and statistical information to name the least. If the database would ever become corrupt to an unrecoverable point, or should your hosting company have a data-loss issue, or a hacker wipes out your database this information is all unrecoverable unless you have a reliable backup method in place.
Making database backups is the most essential in this process. File backups can be taken less frequently since files hardly change. vBulletin using php scripting technology that makes your site dynamic, and to call information from the database and serve it to the end user, making the need for many files or changes to those files largely unneeded. We’re going to cover the basics of the MySQL database first, followed up with file system backups.
Tools you’ll need
- PuTTy (a free windows SSH client)
- FTP Program of your choice
The only 100% reliable method of backing up your database is via the SSH interface also known as the command line. By issuing 1 simple command you can have your database backed up and ready to go to your home computer for a secure off site backup. This method assumes you are on cPanel hosting, and SSH is available to you.
- Login to your server via the PuTTy client (SSH) if available. If you do not have SSH available contact your hosting company or skip to the PhpMyAdmin Section.
- You’ll need to login as the the account user, or under the “root/super user” account.
- Once there create a new directory to store backups. Run the following command: mkdir backups (I strongly suggest this is not stored in the public_html folder any where!)
- Navigate into your new backup folder with: cd backups
- Next is the fun part of backing up your database You’ll need to know your database username and password or have the root account information. The following command is what you want to use: mysqldump -u account_dbusername -p database_name.sql | gzip -9 database_backup.sql.gz
Your database is now backed up, in a compressed format for storage efficency. But you aren’t done yet, the key to taking backups is to move them off-site (off the hosting company server). You’ll need to login to your hosting account via FTP and navigate to the backups folder you created. Download the database_backup.sql.gz file
Some links maybe of interest for you:
Promo Junkie – Webmaster Resources
| CommentsPromo Junkie is a forum focusing on webmaster resources, forums and promotion. Successful and newbie site owners alike can share and discuss limitless ways to increase website traffic and profits.
The site is being expanded to offer even more information and products that will help webmasters expand their knowledge and them succeed in all their online ventures.
Get webmaster articles, find scripts, and learn how to be a more informed and profitable webmaster in their Webmaster Forum.
Many forum owners have been contacting us lately with a common question. Whats the difference between your SEO Service and the SEO Software available for vBulletin?
The difference is actually huge. Our SEO service is for any website, it doesn’t have to be vBulletin powered, or any type of software in particular, it can be anything as simple as a product information page, or a complexe site with thousands of pages.
Our SEO Service delivers results far beyond that of any buy and go software package. We take many factors into consideration a prepackaged software solution won’t be able to take into consideration, and as the major search engines are constantly changing their methods, why wait for software to release updates that could leave your previous work rendered useless or have to be redone? Why risk the chance of that software company not being around for the next update leaving you stuck with software thats no longer valid!
For example, previously it was thought that having friendly URL’s was a major point in your search engine success, however today this simply isn’t the case and Google has confirmed that SEO Friendly URL’s are no longer of any benefit. Most SEO software packages were built around this feature and used as a major selling point in the past which is no longer the situtation.
Some prepackaged software touts around link conesus or duplicate content removal. While their software will reduce the duplicate content, did you know this can also be achieved with a free robots.txt file thats been approved for your site or software. A robots.txt file (which most software doesn’t include or create) can keep the search engine bots attention to pages that are important.
Its now 2009 and two things stand true for major SEO factors. Content and relevant back links. Another thing that SEO software won’t be able to deliver to your forums. While our SEO service includes original content for your site that will help tell the search engine spiders what your domain is about. Another important factor your sites search engine success is relevant back links. Be extremely wary of any advice or service that is promising directory submissions as these do not count as relevant backlinks 90% of the time. Our SEO Service will start your site with a natural link building campaign by getting you relevant back links from other sites. Our back link building strategy is 100% safe and approved to increase your sites rankings.
Be wary of any company or service that is promising over night results. Search engine optimization is a long steady process that lasts for the life of your site. One small mistake can lead to months of set backs, so we suggest always using a 100% white hat SEO service.
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