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Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by AWS

AWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:14:10 +0000

They didn’t. It was business as usual for them. Of course we changed all our help files that were vbulletin specific to reflect the changes in IPB. Other than that I truly don’t think many noticed or if they did it didn’t matter to them.

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:32:07 +0000

How did your users react?

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by AWS

AWS — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:50:39 +0000

I don’t really know. I can’t explain why it went up that high. I do know that it had steadily been increasing. I attributed that to the fact I was getting traffic to search terms totally unrelated to the content of the site and people would leave right away. The bounce rate on that site has been higher than it used to be. At one time it was below 40% with the lowest at 32%. I am getting ready to do an update with more stats that I gathered. I do believe bounce rate is down in the mid 40’s now.

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:24:28 +0000

Why did the bounce rate go up significantly after switching to IPB? I notice in both graphics that this is the case.

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:42:57 +0000

Have you considered that it may be due to annual traffic cycles ?

Comment on Combating vBulletin Forum Post and PM Spam by Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:50:13 +0000

Is there any way I can do this but allow a registered member to PM admins ONLY?

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by AWS

AWS — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:07:28 +0000

I have no reason to do anything like that although I will be starting 2 new sites. One with IPB and one with vbulletin so I might track and compare stats on the 2.

The only reason I did this was to see if there would be a drop in traffic because of the switch. On the contrary the site visits and pageviews increased and continue to increase.

I’ll be updating this with more stats in a couple more weeks. What I am seeing now is telling me that vbseo might actually have been hurting the site.

Comment on Forum SEO: vBulletin/vbSEO vs IPB with SEO URL’S by cheat-master30

cheat-master30 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:16:18 +0000

Interesting experiment, and I guess I’m glad to see people who switch to Invision aren’t screwed over SEO wise. But wouldn’t it also be interesting to test these things as well:

1. Whether the vB SEO or Invision default setup is better for a brand new site which hasn’t been indexed already by Google?

2. And to compare the vBulletin default setup to the Invision default setup SEO results wise?

Comment on Combating vBulletin Forum Post and PM Spam by Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:45:32 +0000

@AWS – Thanks a lot of that last explanation. I had already considered this now when my PM spam has increased, but was afraid I’d have to move over thousands of users manually.

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