[T2DMan]

Originally Posted by Grumbledook

Do you just do this manually for each of the forums you have?

vBSEO has an inbuilt facility to add these automatically. You can put those links anywhere on your pages. This works best for sites that are in the development phrase - developing new forums continually.

However, at the moment, my footer links are manual - I take the html from the sitemap page and manipulate it in excel, then add to the footer template.

[Grumbledook]

Just installed vbseo and going through things now, done the changes you listed as well

good stuff but lots of work for a bum like me

[T2DMan]

Why do you have a website? To have it found!!! So it is well worth working hard at the SEO.

Have a read of the following article that I have just been made aware of.
The Art of Online Conversion

[Grumbledook]

Oh I fully intend too thats why I am here at 6.30am messing around with this stuff ;]

spent ages working on branding, seo is the next thing and I really need to start plonking more content up

oh and nice article

[Grumbledook]

is it best to have the meta description different to the first words that are now in the navbar?

how vital is it and how much of a difference should there be, if any at all?

[T2DMan]

I have seen msn and yahoo take a longer snippet of pages that have the meta description the same as the first words. Looks rather bad.

Best policy is to have the opening paragraph (being the first words after the h1), as being different to the meta description.

I have some basic onpage SEO rules that I consider are enough to get you ranked without trying to "outthink" the SE's. Having a unique meta to opening paragraph is one of those rules.

[TECK]

Looking at your mods... I use:margin: 0 auto;

It's the standard in XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Also, I like what you did at time2dine, by linking the the forum names, when you display an error page.
I did the same thing, using instead a site map, vBSEO style.

[basketmen]

Dear michael

I want to use this code from here that for vbulletin 3.5.x and 3.6.x so my forum description will like forums.seochat.com description like my post before, but it not works for vbulletin 3.6.5 :

headinclude template changes

• For the threadinfo description, I prefer to add a few more words.
• The members meta description can only add specific members information via the members template, so we exclude it from here.
• I like to have a specific meta description for the poll

existing:

Code:

<if condition="$show['threadinfo']"><meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />

replace with your version of the following:

Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT<>member"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='poll'"> <meta name="keywords" content="$vbphrase[view_poll_results] $threadinfo[title] $vboptions[keywords] " /> <meta name="description" content="$vbphrase[view_poll_results] of $threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]. " /> <else /><if condition="$show['threadinfo']"><meta name="description" content="$threadinfo[title] - <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if> $foruminfo[title_clean]. Domain.com is the place to discuss $threadinfo[title]" />

Add an </if></if> to the existing </if>'s

You can check from meta tag analysis for thread description here too
http://www.mypagerank.net/service_metatags_index





let me know if you have update code

[T2DMan]

If it doesnt work, then find out why by understanding what is happening.

I copy and paste directly from there, and it has been working. But if it is not working for you, please just understand what is happening with the code, and fix yourself.

There is one conditional deleted, and three added, net two added. Therefore two extra </if>'s added. Should work fine.

[TheTranceArena]

I've installed this hack but have a couple of queries about a couple of things:

1. If you look at the very top of my forum at http://www.thetrancearena.com/forums/, it says . TheTranceArena.com is the place to discuss " /> - Am i right in thinking that that shouldn't be showing there? If so, do you know what i've done wrong?

2.

Originally Posted by T2DMan

Install the welcome headers plugin from vbulletin.org. Change the guest message to include your search phrases at the start of the text. And add rel=nofollows to the register and contact us links.

What lines do I add the rel=nofollows too? I've gone into UserCP> Styles & Templates> Style Manager> Edit Templates> and looked under "register" and "contactus" - but there are lines of code, and i'm worried about changinf the wrong line. Could you let me know what lines I have to change please?

3.

With the description plugin, the problem is that people don't know seo, and so don't write seo'ed descriptions. So there needs to be a formula that does it for them, and includes their custom description:

I have used the following

[PHP]<meta name="description" content="'$threadinfo[title]' on $foruminfo[title_clean] forum of domainname. com - <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if><if condition="$threadinfo[description]">$threadinfo[description]<else />$threadinfo[title]</if>- <!--VBSEO_RR_1-->"/>
[/PHP]

It doesn't explain where that line has to be added, so i've not been able to add that. Could you explain where that line has to be added please?

4.

Forum Meta Description

Add the forum title onto the start of the forum meta description

Add the red text:
<meta name="description" content="$foruminfo[title_clean]-

- means that you can have repetition of the title key phrase twice in the meta description if you only otherwise have it once in there.

I'm also a bit confused about where I add that line. Where do I find the forum meta description that you mention?



I'm sorry if I sound a bit of a dumb-ass. I just want to make 100% sure that i'm putting the code into the correct places incase it causes problems on my forums. If you could help me out with those four queries, i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks very much for sharing this hack with us. Your hard work and efforts are really appreciated. I get paid next week, so i'll be sending a donation over to thank you for your hard work. Thanks a lot T2DMan

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