I have recently received few emails asking me if I use robots.txt file to stop search engine spiders from indexing pages in my forum. The answer is yes, I do use robots.txt file to ensure that search engine spiders do not spider pages which serve no purpose or might be different type of links to [...]

Who doesn’t like surprises?
I know I do, especially when there is monetary benefit involved and I got a pleasant little surprised yesterday when I checked my inbox and discovered that SEDO had paid me US$ 74!
Surprise was due to the fact that my parked domains haven’t really made that kind of money and I haven’t [...]

Earlier I had written about the duplicate content problem present in vBulletin and how to fix that to a certain degree. This post is a continuation of that post and is mainly based on optimizing the vBulletin Google sitemap made by vBSEO.
While the setup and configuration of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is quite simple, [...]

What do you do when a spammer comes to your forum and posts spam?
Most likely you would go ahead and ban that spammer’s id and delete the post/thread. However it is only time before the spammer comes back, with another user id and spams your forum again!
While you can go ahead and ban that spammer’s [...]

Lately I have been observing a steady increase in targeted forum spamming; my travel forum is being spammed by people who belong to the travel niche!
On one had it means my forum is gaining popularity, on the other hand dealing with this type of spamming has become time consuming. This is due to the fact [...]