Archive for the 'SEO' Category

New directories with Google Page Rank?

While browsing through webmaster forums, one often comes across submission solicitation from directory owners, who have recently launched their directories.
While I quite often submit to these directories, since they usually have a quick and high acceptance rate. I often skip out on directories where the owner claims the directory is new and yet it has [...]

Basic on page SEO: The Title Tag

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most essential parts of designing, developing and marketing a website. Due to this, you need to keep in mind that you have to design a website not only for your human visitors, but also for search engine bots. You have to ensure that search engine bots can [...]

Sample robots dot txt file for vBulletin

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 [...]

Optimizing vBulletin Google sitemap

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, [...]

Get rid of duplicate content from your vBulletin forum!

When I switched my Travel forum from Phpbb to vBulletin, I was amazed by the fact how search engine friendly vBulletin really is and how easy it is to optimize it even further!
One aspect where vBulletin clearly takes a beating is when it comes to the question of duplicate content. In the process of making [...]