Using external SEO add-ons and aids.

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  1. DarkGizmo

    DarkGizmo Mr. Awesome

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    Does anyone use any external SEO mods or addons such as vBSEO or IP.SEO for your website/forum?

    I use IP.SEO for my forums but when we were on vBulletin I was running vBSEO and it helped our site tremedously :D
     
  2. timestandstill

    timestandstill Regular Member

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    I don't understand why IP.SEO isn't built into IPB, sitemap generation is a must in this day and age.

    That said, I do use IP.SEO. Does XenForo have any good official or unofficial SEO addons? You've only mentioned vB and IPB.
     
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  3. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Nope I don't if I ran vB, or an IPB forum I would use those two as I heard nothing but good things about them.
    Nope XenForo does not, and I do feel its pretty well optimized out of the box, you can tell by the URL structure. And about IP SEO, I agree they should just have it built in, but you know they just want to make money..
     
  4. timestandstill

    timestandstill Regular Member

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    IP.SEO is free. In fact, it probably costs them more to maintain a separate product.
     
  5. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    It is? I had no idea, then I dont see why they provide it as a whole other product.
     
  6. euantor

    euantor Regular Member

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    Yeah, I always have. With MyBB, I used Google SEO. When I ran vB 3.8 I used an SEO plugin (not vBSEO - I can't remember the name though) too.
     
  7. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Google SEO for MyBB is the best plugin in my opinion, you gotta love it. The guy who made it, could have easily benefited from it if he wanted to sell it but he released it for free. The URL structure is great.
     
  8. euantor

    euantor Regular Member

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    It sure is. Frostschutz has made several other top quality plugins too (like PluginLibrary and patches) and he's released them all as Open Source. He's quite easily one of the best devs IMHO
     
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  9. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    MyBB would benefit from having him on the team, anyways just noticed we are Off-Topic. Back on Topic.

    Do you use any external SEO plugins/modifications for your website/forum?
     
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    euantor Regular Member

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    I actually do use one on MyPureBB that I feel deserves a mention. It's called Wordpress SEO and is created by Yoast: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

    It does absolutely everything - title rewriting, Meta keywords/descriptions, sitemaps, post optimizations, canonicals and everything. It's honestly the best SEO plugin for Wordpress in my opinion.
     
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  11. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Very nice, it has some great features included. Thanks for the share im sure others will find it helpful.
     
  12. SpacewardAsh

    SpacewardAsh Lurking From Space

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    I'm sure I will for the PH blog, will download it and install it later :)
     
  13. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Oh yes, you could really use that, as your ranking isn't that great so it will be plus :thumbsup:
     
  14. Ventura

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    Another forum I am an Admin on my friend just bought a vBSEO license, so we are pretty excited about using it on there. Heard nothing but good things about it.
     
  15. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Yea its worth. But one thing thats very funny to me is vBSEO comes with a likes mod included in the product which is very random lol.
     

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