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Old 05-28-2008, 08:25 AM Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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Hi there!

I am a complete newbie to SEO , excuse my ignorance but I am looking at ways in which to improve my websites (vBulletin forum) SEO ranking (if thats a correct term to use? lol)

www.GrandOldTeam.com - a forum for Everton fans (English football team).

Currently, it appears at the top on the second page of google when 'Everton forum' is searched, anyway in which I could boost it up the ranks?

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Old 05-28-2008, 10:41 AM Re: Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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get rid of the "splash screen"
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Old 05-28-2008, 11:35 AM Re: Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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... and that would be one way to improve SEO?

[Edit] But the splash page has a higher rank on google than the actual forum page? http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=

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Old 05-28-2008, 12:19 PM Re: Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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and that would be one way to improve SEO?
probably the most important way to start with, as it will put all your content one click closer to the initial entry point.
Either that or get some useful text content on the home page and link from there to the forums categories so it looks like you think the forum is important

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But the splash page has a higher rank on google than the actual forum page?
Well it would! seeing at all your links will be pointing to what search engines see as a blank page with two links on it

read this for a start -> http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...important.html
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and then read this

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...?showtopic=833
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Old 05-28-2008, 06:02 PM Re: Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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Try installing the vBulletin SEO mod, vBSEO, which can be located at http://www.vbseo.com/ .
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Old 05-29-2008, 01:09 PM Re: Ways to improve vBulletin forum SEO?
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get rid of the "splash screen"
Ditto, theres no content of any quality on the spash screen, so just get rid of it !

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