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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]