Removed VBSEO - Feel Confident About The Decision
 

I have been thinking about this for a while* and tonight I decided to remove VBSEO from my forum. Please* this is not a negative about VBSEO* nor do I want it to turn into such a thread* this is just my thoughts on my own forum and future vBulletin direction.

Years ago I believe such a product was essential to aid vBulletin with search engines* and it was... however; technologies have changed drastically with SE's and both vBulletin software itself has changed* and from a standard install I see no major issue with the software today that really tells me to pay another provider to tune the software further* because its not really essential any more. Yes* vBulletin still lacks some basics like friendly URL's and the ability to include the "nofollow" attribute out of the box* but I believe vb4 is certainly working towards being more friendly in some of these instances.

Knowing some of the coming developments from lots of reading here* I have decided to strip VBSEO out of my own forums in preparation to the newer version of vBulletin and run with their standard out of the box solutions. Sure* its painful to have all your URL's re-indexed and lose a little traffic for a short time* but its nothing overall in the scheme off things IMHO.

The more I read here and upon vb.org* I find it will be much easier to travel ahead with less reliance upon outside software and integration* and instead stay as close as possible to an out of the box solution* especially now vb are really stepping things up with content management and listening to users* implementing factors that are just expected from content mangement software of any kind* be it CMS* blogging or forum software.

I am looking forward to the new release and times ahead... and now no more extra fee's to another which I can contribute towards the VBCMS for all of my forums and future developments.