Add-On: CommunitySEO for IPB

[Nick]

Does anybody actually use CommunitySEO? Is it to IP.Board as vBSEO is to vBulletin?

If you do use it, how good is it?

[The Real Patrick]

I've never used it, but IPB 3 comes with search engine friendly URLs by default.

[Soliloquy]

Surely CommunitySEO must offer other SEO benefits then, just as vbSEO does?

[tryfuhl]

vB all the way

[Kakeru]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

vB all the way

Okay?

Originally Posted by Soliloquy

Surely CommunitySEO must offer other SEO benefits then, just as vbSEO does?

This is the list for the old version. It goes much more in depth on their site.

Supports Invision Power Board versions 2.2.x, and 2.3.x
Friendly URL (FURL) support for all IPB pages
Custom transliteration support for international users
Google Sitemap generator
New "Search Engine Spiders" group
New "Spider" skin
Comprehensive Spider list
Improved spider activity logging
robots.txt file included
Configurable global meta tags
Configurable per-forum meta tags
Social network integration
Acronym expansion
Stats inflation
Google analytics integration
Similar Topics block
Linkback/Pingback/Trackback support
Ability to block duplicate content from being indexed
Ability to specify lofi as alternate content
Ability to add nofollow attribute to duplicate content
Ability to add nofollow attribute to external links
Ability to block error pages from being indexed
Ability to redirect spiders to a page from error pages
Ability to add many relevant meta tags
Add proper 301 headers to redirects
Redirect requests of dynamic urls to static urls
Redirect invalid static url requests to correct static urls

[David McHenry]

They don't have a working version for 3.0 out yet its currently in Alpha and the support seems shaky there at best.

Seems to be a one man show there so i'm not sure how long it will be before a working 3.0 compatible version is out to test.

The fURL's in IPB are weird, and extremely hard to customize.

[Kakeru]

I never had a problem with their support.

[BamaStangGuy]

I wish VBSEO would branch out to IP.Board. Only thing I am going to miss from vBulletin.

[Kakeru]

I remember they were planning too, but I guess they never did for some reason.

[Soliloquy]

Maybe now is the right time for them to revisit those plans, with some people jumping ship.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

I wish VBSEO would branch out to IP.Board. Only thing I am going to miss from vBulletin.

vBSEO is about the only reason I am dragging my feet with respect to converting over to IPB.

I had some communication with Andy yesterday and we're thinking it might be time for some current license holders to start pestering Juan & Co. about branching out again.

[Nick]

It would be awesome if vBSEO put their work into an IP.Board-compatible product. I think it would ease the decision-making process quite substantially, as lot of vBulletin customers are attached to vBSEO.

[Mike]

Maybe the IPB customer base isn't large enough to warrant the development of a Crawlability SEO script. I have no idea.

I know a handful of vB admins have reluctantly moved to IPB, not wanting to give up vBSEO advantages. I tried all the optimization tricks on my sites and had moderate success, but it was vBSEO that made the biggest differences for me. And I really don't want to leave that laying on the table.

[BamaStangGuy]

I would convert Mustang Evolution to IP.Board if vBSEO was an option for IP.Board.

[Kakeru]

Originally Posted by Mike

Maybe the IPB customer base isn't large enough to warrant the development of a Crawlability SEO script. I have no idea.

Yet there's CommunitySEO and MinervaSEO. There clearly is enough people.