vB Robot Optimzing (SEO) - Template Mod

vB Robot Optimizing (SEO) - Template Mod · **Released**: 06-04-2007

Optimizing vBulletin for SEO Robots

Basically, all this does is make your vBulletin better for SEO and increases page loading speeds in Internet Explorer by forcing the BlendTransition - compared to the standard vBulletin Meta Tags. All you are doing is adding a few lines to improve the standard code so your forum looks better to search engine spiders. You can see the difference if you use an SEO browser, which will show you exactly what a search engine sees when viewing your pages.

This modifcation is simple to apply, and only requires a couple of template edits.

Template Edit:
Forum Home Templates > FORUMHOME

Find:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

After add this:

Code:

<meta http-equiv=Page-Exit content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>
<meta http-equiv=Page-Enter content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>
<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP" />

Save template

Template Edit 2:
Show Thread Templates > SHOWTHREAD

Find:

Code:

<head>

After add:

Code:

<meta http-equiv=Page-Exit content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>
<meta http-equiv=Page-Enter content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>
<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP" />

Save Template.

End of Modification

**basketmen** · #2 06-05-2007, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hybrid

Optimizing vBulletin for SEO Robots

Basically, all this does is make your vBulletin better for SEO - compared to the standard vBulletin Meta Tags. All you are doing is adding a few lines to improve the standard code so your forum looks better to search engine spiders. You can see the difference if you use an SEO browser, which will show you exactly what a search engine sees when viewing your pages.

This modifcation is simple to apply, and only requires a couple of template edits.

Template Edit:
Forum Home Templates > FORUMHOME

Find:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

After add this:

Code:

<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP" />

Save template

Template Edit 2:
Show Thread Templates > SHOWTHREAD

Find:

Code:

<head>

After add:

Code:

<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP" />

Save Template.

End of Modification

hmm how is it the success, anyone using this mod?

**hybrid** · #3 06-05-2007, 02:59 PM

You can run tests to see how this performs, bear in mind you also need to get keywords and descriptions correctly done in your Meta Tag data as well.

Before doing this mod, do the following...

Firstly, you can check your domain by going here:
http://whois.domaintools.com/

Type in your domain name, and check the SEO Rating - I think for this site its about 80% and we are still tweaking various code, with a Page Rank of 4, we are expecting this to rise in the next Google update.

Now, add these few lines to vBulletin, and your portal if you are using one.

Within about 5-7 days - check your site again, you should see a marked improvement.

**hybrid** · #4 12-26-2007, 01:05 PM

Modification updated - 26th December 2007