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The best tips for forum and vBulletin owners

1. Make sure your meta description for your vBulletin forum is user friendly and not just keyword stuffed. A/B test your meta tags, you’ll notice increased clickthrough from google search using targeted meta descriptions on your important pages.

2. Are you maximizing the potential of your vBulletin forum? Try changing the names of your categories to specifically the keywords that your website is about and want to generate traffic from. If your url setup is SEO Friendly, they will include your keywords from categories. Next step is to have related content in those categories. Having forums called “general discussion” does not separate yourself from the millions of other forums out there.

3. If your looking to build your vBulletin forum, make sure to tweet posts automatically to Twitter. Twitter is great for building lots of back links over time. Do not underestimate it…even if all these new social sites can be overwhelming..and annoying at times.

4. To improve security on your vBulletin forum, make sure your admin account name isn’t “admin” and your admincp directory is renamed.’

5. Installing your forum, doing your keyword research, and posting on it is only 1/4 of the battle. Make sure you create the environment caters to your niche. Not only to keep your members on your forum, but also to drive new ones.

6.Organic traffic, or traffic from Google is the best type of traffic to growing your forum massive. This is done by having lots of quality threads related to the topic of your forum.

7. Less mods are better than more mods! vBulletin.org mods are not checked by anyone except the developers of that modification. By allowing your forum to have more mods, your creating more vulnerabilities.

8.Create your forum category names with precision, mainly your keywords, as that is what your URL Canocials will be, which will ultimately affect your SEO, or search engine optimization.

9. The theme of your forum brings out the personality and uniqueness of your forum. Make sure its clean, easy to navigate, and stands out from your competitors.

10. A good forum building technique to deploy is an Introduction section, all new members should introduce themselves and answer 4 main criteria:
1. How did they find your site?
2. What do they like most?
3. What do they hate most?
4. What do they love about the community?

This will give you excellent feedback on how your attracting your userbase, what you need to change, keep the same, as well as bond your community together, as new members will love to see other members visiting.

11. We’ve noticed that users on our Gamer forum tend to use our Facebook Connect integration over our typical vBulletin registration form. However they will change their avatar/profile pic upon logging in. If you have a lot of visitors coming to your pages, make sure you implement a Facebook Connect button or you’ll be losing valuable members.

12. Most vBulletin forums fail within the first year. Two things to have in forums, people visiting the forum, and second, getting those people to post. Encourage activity by having monthly competitions, and participating with your members in discussions. In time, you can step back from the conversation, but this is necessary.

13. Start monetizing your traffic to your site and earn up to $90 per commission with vBSocial.com Affiliates:

http://vbsocial.com/affiliates

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Some of the great things that make this the best vBulletin CMS Slider are:

• Multiple RSS Feed driven, so you can pull external content to vBulletin
• Pull content from forums
• Allow for unlimited slides
• Pull from forum IDs
• Image bank technology where you can match words with images
• vBSocial Slider works on CMS, vBAdvanced CMPS, and also provides related links for every slide – GREAT FOR SEO

We mainly decided to write this post because one of our customers pushed us to, see what he has to say about all the types of sliders, and how he chose vBSocial Slider:

Taken from Facebook:

We figure a picture from an actual person is the best type of user testamonial. Hope you guys love the slider. We plan on releasing a dark version of the vBulletin slider for dark themes as well. We understand that it is typically a white slider

Please note that our vBulletin 5 slider is still on its way, and will be released to all VIPs as soon as its’ ready.

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So what’s coming out of our wood works?

Premium vBulletin Modifications for vBulletin 5

vBSocial 8 Notifications for vBulletin 5 – The best modification for vBulletin 5. vBSocial Notifications 8.0 is truly a spectacular, must have modification that changes the way your users interact on your website. Users will get notifications when other people post, reply, comment and much more. Not only that, theres a built in reputation system, thanks system, smooth drop down menus for browsing, integrated google search, among other features. To check out all the features, see:

vBSocial Wall for vBulletin 5 – vBSocial Wall will elevate your vBulletin 5 forum to higher heights by introducing a social wall of interactivity. Users can follow other users, get status updates from their profiles, like, dislike, lol comments on their profiles, as well as share statuses, images, videos and more across other profiles.

vBSocial Memberlist – Premium vBulletin 5 Mod – Our hottest new modification, allows admins for both vBulletin 4 and vBulletin 5 to quickly change their memberlist to a Facebook ajax based memberlist. This is a very powerful, and clean looking modification.

Get the best vBulletin mods at vBSocial

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Finally a good insight into to improve you vBulletin SEO with these modifications. Furthermore we’ve tweaked them, and we’ll tell you how. There will be some nice surprises here and deep analysis into what works, and what doesn’t!

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Best  SEO Modifications for vBulletin

1. vBSEO – a product developed to boost overall SEO effectiveness.

Overall thoughts:

vBSEO’s three most effective jobs is

• Converts your permalinks from website.com/This-Is-How-You-Do-It to website.com/This-Is-How-You-Do-It to.html. Why is this good? .html’s index faster and better than dynamic links, because .HTML’s appear static to google.

• Linkbacks – I find this an awesome feature. It tells you who is linking to specific pages. Furthermore, you can add or reject them
• Sitemaps – Automatic creation and features of their sitemap are great. Better than most platforms out there.

#2. vBSocial Slider – a dynamic slider that improves both deeplinking and new content on home page

• Yep yep, brought to you by your one and only. If you are a VIP member, then you  most likely have this mod installed and your onto a good start

vBSocial SEO’s most effective jobs:

• Impresses guests in their first 7 seconds. Makes your site look professional.
• Drives traffic and google bots deep into your pages.
• Text displayed on slider is readable by google bots and other search engine bots.

vBSocial SEO Links – Adds Relevant SEO links to all your threads

#3  Word Links (Turn words into links) by BOP5 – turns specific words in to links and you get to choose them

• Has the ability to turn an unlimited number of words into links.
• Ability to accept case sensitive words or not. If “Yes” will only match words of exactly the same case as your keywords. If “No” words will be linked regardless of case. (Recommended value: No)
• Ability to allow multiple words. Choose the maximum number of links per keyword per post. 0 is unlimited. If you set a number other than zero, say 2, then only the first 2 instances of the keyword in any post will become links.
• Ability to Use “nofollow” in Links
• Ability Open Links in New Window/Tab

#4 vB4 SuperCharged – Optimises CSS, Javascript and HTML

• CSS Optiser – mimizes your css files and servers css directly
• Javascript Optimizer – minimizes javascript loading
• Html optimizer – adds whitespace removal
• Attachment Optimizer – Intended for FASTCGI users

Basically you can link all your main keywords to a very solid page about your keyword throughout your page. Awesome.

Number of Days Registered to Post Links – You will be able to set a minimum number of how many days the users have been registered at your forum in order for them to post links.

• Your probably wondering, hows this related to SEO? Bots spam your website and bypass Captcha these days. But they can’t bypass this. A bot needs to be sophisticated enough to return after x # of days to post their spammy links, and this modification blocks it.
• Allowing bots to post links will decrease the value of your site or get it banned. Really bad for SEO. This prevents that.
• This mod rocks.

Not so good Plug-ins for SEO

#1 FUZZY SEO Booster – increase long tail search traffic AUTOMATICALLY!

• They sneak a link to their website when the modification is suppose to boost links
• Unsupported
• Reports of a lot of angry people

#2 vbStopForumSpam

• This doesn’t stop all the forum spam, but it does stop some. The reason why this is bad for SEO is because it blocks REAL users some of the time. I recieved emails of people being blocked from registration and THAT is BAD. People who register are your content creators. And as far as SEO goes, CONTENT IS KING!

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Question:
Does it work on Forums too?
Yes.

Question:
How do I get images to show up in the slider?
Images must be near the top of the thread so that they also appear in the RSS. Images automatically go to the RSS feed, in turn go to the forumslider

Question:
Is it connected to another server?
No

I don’t see any items in the slider. Why?
Make sure RSS feeds are turned on is Admincp > Options. Then check the rss feed if there is any items being displayed.

Question:
My images are too stretched when appearing, why?
Typically you should only use images that are the same size as your slider. However, thats’ just ideal and unrealistic unless you have lots of time on your hands. If you can’t use pre-scaled images, forumslider is built with a resizer, just switch it to scaled mode instead of stretched mode.

What if there is no image in the thread and it shows up on the forumslider?
A default image is included with the slider. Replace it with an image of your own. This will show up when no images do.

Question:
I Want to buy ultimate version but lite mod doesn”t pull images on my cms.
Only default image and thread title showing.

Your images must be in the thread before its published. RSS feeds don’t update. Once your thread is submitted it goes immediately to the rss feed without any updates following. Also check your rss feed to see if images are appearing.
For example : http://buypoe.com/external.php?do=rs…s=120&count=10
See the images? Yours should look similar

Question:
Where can I learn more about it?
Forum-Skins.com

Question:
So exactly how much is it for forum slider ultimate? With my site I am going to want to have more than slides appear and adjust the size and all that. So if you could just tell let me know what the cost is It would be appreciated.

ForumSlider costs 59/month and comes with other premium mods and premium themes. You can cancel your membership at any time and still use them all as long as you want. So technically you can sign up for a month and get everything. I’m not allowed to say much about it here.

Question:
I want shows only photos from X forums: example….i can select forum with ID 3, ID 5, ID 7 ……etc etc….?
Antonio

You can combine RSS feeds from each of those forums using Feedburner.com or any of those sites that combine multiple RSS feeds into one. Then take that one rss feed and input it into forumslider.

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Created and Designed by David Ahmad

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Live Demos: AndroidWins.com

AndroidWins.com Theme Bundle Includes

• Premium Quality Theme
  • Custom Designed Background
  • Custom Designed Logo
  • Logos in .PSD and .PNG Format
  • Redesigned transparencies, widely used in this theme
  • Unique color contrasts
  • Images redesigned and cleaned
  • SEO Optimized for fast page loading
  • Crunched Images for better page speed
  • Packed to install. Delivered instantly after payments
  • Give your members something to choose from. Multi-Theme.

Other Features

• Compatible with 4.x Series.
• Tested on the latest version!
• Supports CMS, Forum, and Blog layouts
• Completely, Forum-Skins.com designed background. You won’t find it elsewhere.
• Facebook OpenGraph Compatibility: Let your users connect to your site & theme using FB integration and add Likes.
• Compatible with all 4.0x Mods
• CSS customized Forum Headers (Looks different from other Forums)
• Theme gaurenteed to work for all of 4.X or your money back.
• Bonuses:
  • 1 Year of Support
  • Updates & Guarentee that this theme will work with all of vBuleltin 4.X
  • Email Support: support@forum-skins.com

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One of the Most downloaded themes on vBulletin in all time has finally been revised for forum administrators looking for something a bit more top notch!

Live Demos:

Go Green Theme

Go Green Theme Bundle includes:

Premium Quality Theme
Custom Designed Background
Custom Designed Logo
Logos in .PSD and .PNG Format
Redesigned transparencies, widely used in this theme
Unique color contrasts
Images redesigned and cleaned
SEO Optimized for fast page loading
Crunched Images for better page speed
Packed to install. Delivered instantly after payments
Give your members something to choose from. Multi-Theme.

Other Features

Compatible with 4.x Series.
Tested on the latest version!
Supports CMS, Forum, and Blog layouts
Completely, Forum-Skins.com designed background. You won’t find it elsewhere.
Facebook OpenGraph Compatibility: Let your users connect to your site & theme using FB integration and add Likes.
Compatible with all 4.0x Mods
CSS customized Forum Headers (Looks different from other Forums)
Theme gaurenteed to work for all of 4.X or your money back.

Bonuses:
1 Year of Support
Updates & Guarentee that this theme will work with all of vBuleltin 4.X
Email Support: support@forum-skins.com

Get this theme free with Forum-Skins.com VIP

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