5 vBulletin Optimization Tips
If you’re using the worlds best forum software to run your forum, chances are great its vBulletin. Thier software is wonderful and is pretty much ready to go as soon as you’ve installed it and set it up. If you need any help setting vBulletin up we offer installation service here, for a margin of the price that Jelsoft does, and we’ll do the same exact thing.
After you’ve got vBulletin up and running, its time to make some optimizations before you actually launch your site. Some of these tips not only help with decreasing the resource usage of vBulletin, but also help improve your Search Engine Optimizations.
- Store Style Sheet As File. Under vBulletin Options -> Style And Language Settings
- Restrict bot crawling to reduce duplicate content. Use our vBulletin robots.txt
- Increase cached post lifespan. vBulletin Options -> Settings and Optimization Settings. Leave the setting at 1
- Automatically quote post/thread title to increase keyword density. vBulletin options -> Message Posting and Editing Options
- Enable all your external data providers. vBulletin Options -> External Data Provider
These five small tips can have your vBulletin forum running slightly better then what it would with default settings. Some of these options such as quoting your post/thread titles, and storing CSS as files will help with spiders as well.
just followed all the steps!
thanks for the tips.