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vBSEO, vBBlog and vBulletin 3.x to Xenforo

by Shabbir on April 24, 2013

If you are using vBBlog and vBSEO like I had, you should plan Xenforo move with cautions of redirecting old forum as well as blog urls to new urls. Read my experience to help you plan your move better.

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Why I Finally Gave up on vBulletin?

by Shabbir on April 5, 2013

I was a fan of vBulletin for forums and have been using it on all my forums. The progress of vBulletin for last couple of years was so disappointing that finally I had to give up with them. Let me share why, as well as what next?

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After awesome response to Free Wordpress Installation Service many readers requested similar offer for forums and so here I am Offering everybody Free vBulletin Installation Service. Yes you heard it right completely free vBulletin Setup service.

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How to Add infolinks to vBulletin Forums

by Shabbir on April 23, 2012

How to add infolinks ads into vBulletin in such a manner that it shows ads only in threads and blogs with an option to show ads only to guests.

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XenForo Like User Avatars For vBulletin 3.7+

by Shabbir on August 21, 2011

Xenforo like user avatars in vBulletin forum, search and thread listing. Works with vBulletin 3.7, 3.8 and vBullein 4.

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Xenforo has become the benchmark for most of forum design elements and one of them is user avatars in thread listing.

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Why I don’t Recommend vBulletin 4

by Shabbir on May 9, 2011

Being a die hard fan of vBulletin for almost 5 years I am yet to upgrade any of my forums to vBulletin 4 and it is not that I have not tried but I just could not get it working the way I wanted it to be.

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vBulletin 4 SEO Tips

by Guest-Blogger on April 11, 2011

vBulletin 4 SEO Tips to rank your vBulletin powered sites better especially focusing on Why search engines cannot find your vBulletin 4 site?

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How to Integrate MAXCDN With vBulletin 3.8

by Shabbir on April 11, 2011

MaxCDN plugin for vBulletin is for vBulletin 4+. If you are using vBulletin 3.8 or lesser and have no plans to move to vBulletin 4, you can still use MaxCDN.

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Alternating Color Rows in vBulletin 4

by Shabbir on March 6, 2011

A client of mine wanted to have alternating colored rows (and not columns) in vBulletin 4 forums. As I searched, I saw the problem is talked a lot in forums without any solution for vBulletin 4 and so I decided to put together a solution. See my article on Go4Expert on How to have Alternating [...]

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Couple of month’s back I started working for one of my clients who had more than two million posts in his vBulletin forum and had issues of very slow forum experience. I did a long list of things and couple of months down the line he has no complaints about the forum speed now. Let [...]

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How to Launch A Forum – 5 Must Do Things

by Shabbir on November 22, 2010

Let us take the second question from Ask me Anything which is What are the few must things you tend to do when you start a new forum? I have the question answered in bits and pieces into many posts and so you will see lots of links to my other posts. Let us now [...]

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SEO experts and especially Google SEO experts will always suggest working on off-page optimization factors more than on-page optimization for better organic ranking. C Programming Forum was something I never had the time to work on for quite some time until recently in the first week of September I started working on it. Upgraded vBulletin, [...]

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vBulletin or xenForo

by Shabbir on July 31, 2010

I always preferred vBulletin for my forums but after I purchased the upgrade for vBulletin 4.0 for couple of my forums I never upgraded them to vBulletin 4 because I never liked it. I will mention few reasons why I do not prefer vBulletin 4.0 any more Theme development were (and may be is) a [...]

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Integrate AWeber with vBulletin Registration

by Shabbir on April 5, 2010

Integrating AWeber with vBulletin using Email parser has many drawbacks. One of them was double email confirmation. Other is when you have more than one way for users to subscribe. For e.g. if you have an AWeber form where user can subscribe to your list ideally you need to have 2 different type of confirmation [...]

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