[baerwurz]

Hi I´m André fom Germany,

I´ve seen the great Touturial about Seo Optimizing vBulletin by T2DMan!

My English is not the best, I´ve included the most Things T2DMan has here postet.

T2DMan can you please have a look at my Forums and say that everythings works well? Specially the Meta Description and Headinclude.

Here is the Domain: http://www.soccer-fans.de

That would be very nice!


And here my Questions:

1. Using the Forum Description in every Thread (navbar) isn´t this Double Content?
2. I´ve seen you have put Links to your Forums and to some special Threads in your footer. Should I realy do this too?
3. You see my vBseo Archiv Links in my footer , that are 161 ones. If the forum will have one day, more about 100 k Posts it would take to much place, or?
4. Should I link to all Archive Links, or only the main?
5. What about using Adsense Code in the Archive?

Last Question: How did you fix the Login and Code in the Navbar. (see the Screenshot)




I hope I´ve mad everything correctly and no I´m waiting for nice Serps! :-)

Thank you so much for thevery nice toturial!

Best Regards,

André

[T2DMan]

Hi André

Thanks for your enquiry. great to see that you are putting my principles into practice.

You need to go to the forum home template and remove the instance of the welcome guest message - since you have it in the navbar template.

Look at your forum names and then the descriptions used. You need to have the forum name (=title) in the description somehow. The exact phrase, not reversed or with a word in between. Your forum meta descriptions are great apart from the fact that the descriptions need that repetition of the search phrase.

You might like to put rel=nofollow on the calendar and faq. Do you include any information in either that you want indexed? There are other links on your pages that you probably don't need to get ranked on Google, so put rel=nofollows on them as well.

I see that you have vertical centered the login - looks better, cool.

You dont have to have the forum description on the threads - take your pick, might look better with the forum description removed. There is no problem with the repeated text being there regards seo. Repeated text is only an issue when there is repeated text around the same search phrase. Each thread has a different search phrase with different words around that phrase.

Personally, I would have archive links to the main url's only. Otherwise you get a few too many links. Your Google PR then needs to be sufficient to drive good PR to the threads. With the number of threads that you have, you need to work at getting a PR6. ie look around all the football sites, work at getting links from them. See if you can get links from your city and clubs football sites. They would have great Google PR. You need links links and more links to get that PR up, therefore driving PR to the forums and threads.

Style sheets need to be in their own file. You should use the vbseo compress code option. You need to turn off the vbulletin option that is adding in the template names. Very useful when you are changing templates, but you dont need the load, and don't need the programming load for vbseo to then remove the extra comments.

I dont like whole of site links to other websites. I personally like the idea of one live link from say the forum home page, then have the rest as rel=nofollow. ie put a conditional in there - <if condition="THIS_SCRIPT<>'index'">rel="nofollow"</if>

Now you see the need to hire me to SEO your forum. There is so much to think about even with the help of what I have written in the main threads. But if you do the above, you will be well on the way.

You have not done the thread meta descriptions properly. Turn off the vbseo replacement option, and write your own based on my formula. You have to have the thread title in the meta description twice for best effect, then use the relevant replacements to have say the first 30 words of the thread as the remainder of the meta description.

Certainly, please add adsense to the archive. However, find out how much $ you get from there, it is the forums and threads that people will be finding on the search engines, not the archives.

You need to get to the top of the search engines for highly trafficed phrases. How do you do that? If you have a special thread that is the talk of the day, you need to say that the thread is REALLY important. ie link to it from every page of your site. How else can you tell Google that the thread is especially important. Then try and get external pages to link to that specific thread. Then you will stand a chance at ranking well for that thread. You can't do it with every thread, just a small number of special ones - maybe keep it for 6-8 weeks until you have another hot thread that you want to promote. Grasp the concept and make it work for you. Each absolute text in a link is the phrase that you are voting for that page. Make sure that you use the text that you want to rank for. Make sure that the text in the link is actually on that page, otherwise you are wasting the link.

A paypal donation via my contract me page would be appreciated. This sort of advice is normally not freely given. To anyone else reading this, a donation would be appreciated.

[baerwurz]

Hi T2DMan, thanks for your reply.

I think I´ve now done all the advices you gave me.

But 2 Things I´m not sure, if I´m right:

Originally Posted by T2DMan

You have not done the thread meta descriptions properly. Turn off the vbseo replacement option, and write your own based on my formula. You have to have the thread title in the meta description twice for best effect, then use the relevant replacements to have say the first 30 words of the thread as the remainder of the meta description.

I´ve now changed my headinclude to this:

<if condition="$show['threadinfo']">
<meta name="keywords" content="$threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="'$threadinfo[title]' im $foruminfo[title_clean] Forum bei Soccer-fans.de - <if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if><if condition="$threadinfo[description]">$threadinfo[description]<else />$threadinfo[title]</if>- <!--VBSEO_RR_1_NOHTML-->"/> 
<else />

And in vBseo CP I have this:

<!--VBSEO_RR_1--> will be replaced by:
[first_post_30_words] on forumdisplay pages (and)
[first_post_30_words] on showthread pages.

Is that right?

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I dont like whole of site links to other websites. I personally like the idea of one live link from say the forum home page, then have the rest as rel=nofollow. ie put a conditional in there - <if condition="THIS_SCRIPT<>'index'">rel="nofollow"</if>

You mean only one external Link on Forumhome without rel nofollow?
Ok, but in this Case it would be very difficult to find Link Partners, or?

A paypal donation via my contract me page would be appreciated. This sort of advice is normally not freely given.

If You believe or not, I´m not having a paypal Account. But I´ve signed up one before 5 minutes.

I know your replys to appreciate, and i will provide you a Donation as soon as possible.

I am realy happy with your Tipps!

Thank you very much!

André