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5 vBulletin hacks every vBulletin forum should have

Here is a list of 5 vBulletin modifications which should be present on every vBulletin forum:
vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator: vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is one of the most important hacks and every vBulletin forum which wants free traffic from search engines, should install ASAP. vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is quite easy to setup and helps [...]

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, [...]

Hitting spammers, where it hurts the most!

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 [...]

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 [...]