If anyone has any questions about vBSEO and are wondering if its worth the money.  Well the short answer is YES!

I’m just a regular guy, who researched a bit of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics, and then ran across vBSEO and thought it looked interesting but couldn’t get over the price.  About 5 months after my forum started I bit the bullet and bought the software for my Camaro & Firebird site.

I installed vBSEO on August 13th, 2007.  I’ve had some up and downs since then, but one thing that has never gone down during this time is search engine referrals (especially google).

Since I installed Google Analytics only 2 and a half months before the install of vBSEO I can understand why skeptics could be a bit turned off by the above graph.

However, this one gives real proof

When a Forum that is little over 1 year old and has only 700 members is ranking higher on almost all terms than forums with 10’s of thousands of members and 5+ years online, something is working well.

Sure, I’ve done other things to help my search engine rankings as everyone should.  No one states that vBSEO or any other SEO product is a magic install that just works and you can leave your site stagnant for 1 year and then blame them when it goes wrong.  However, I am no SEO Expert, just a guy who started a site online, read some free articles and watched some videos, talked with others and am now on the top of google (for a few terms-more will come with time).  I see the price tag of vBSEO now and wouldn’t think twice of buying a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th license if I had the forums that needed it.

Sorry for the lack of updates to the site this past month or so. I’ve been swamped with work for my classes and other projects and haven’t had the time to work on any of my sites as much as I’d like to.

Anyways, This will be a in-depth look at how vBSEO has affected our search engine rankings from August 15th until now on F-Body Online.

First, we’ll compare the search engine stats from July 15th through August 15th, and compare them to August 16th through September 15th.
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I sat with a vBulletin forum for 10 months before installing vBSEO because the pricetag (~150.00 USD) was a bit steep and I wasn’t quite sure it would work. Well I figured I’d take the stab at it (as you already know if you’ve read any past posts) and the results have been nothing but good.

Not only have my Rankings for Google, Yahoo, Live, and MSN all over tripled, I’ve also been getting more traffic that wants to be here . Before vBSEO was installed during a month I was averaging about 3 pages/visit, in the month and 10 days since, I’m averaging 7.5 pages/visit.

I am now in the top 10 in google for “f body forums” and top 15 for many other similar phrases like f-body forum and others.

20 days have passed since I installed vBSEO on F-Body Online.

I am very pleased with the results so far, and at 30 days I’ll have a full month to compare to a full month without it. But for now we’ll look at these past 20 days (Aug. 15th - Sep. 4th) and compare them to a full 30 days from Jul. 15th to Aug 14th.

July 15th - August 14th Stats: Full Month

August 15th - September 4th Stats: 20 Days

Heres a quick update on vBSEO:

Sorry, haven’t been up to date lately, but I’ll be catching up with all the tracking soon, my fall semester classes just started this past week and I’ve been moving as well so its been a bit hectic around here.

I will say that I think everyone will be surprised that vBSEO has done everything it has promised to do so far, and when I show you the graphs and analytics for the past 20 or so days.

and ALREADY noticing a difference in traffic and search engine traffic to the site.

This is 3 days after installing vBSEO:
Search Engine Visits

Unique Visits

I’ll be adding a 14 day update soon, so check back and see if things slow back down or continue to rise.