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Hello atcpaul,
Thank you for your kind words about our forums; actually we like vB3 much better than vB4 or vB5... it's cleaner, less bloated and does not suffer from so much "feature creep" and the "me too" social syndrome which vB4 and vB5 suffer from.
Regarding vBSEO, actually the way that group shut down their web site and ended support was ethically and morally wrong. Crawability (vbSEO) just abandoned many well established Internet communities without any transition plan; and just turned off their forum which had a lot of information we needed; and they also just shutdown a web site which was needed by their software to do a license check. What they did was completely irresponsibility and totally inexcusable; and they are lucky their former customers did take them to court for negligence.
Anyway, "never mind" vBSEO and their company and people. They harmed a lot of people; good riddance. Karma is real, so they will get what they deserve, we don't need to waste time over such a failed company and group of people. Move on!
Regarding requesting "my assistance", well, this year I am fully committed to this site and to our moderators, forum advisory team and our members; we have a lot to do in this community to support the 2.5 to 3 Million visitors we have each month and to support our community members who give their time to help others.
Having said that, our community can always use extra money to play for hosting, software, graphics, etc - so if you *really* need my help, the cost for Neo (me) to help you "hands on for your forum" is $2000 USD paid in advance to our forum paypal account.
For this $2000 USD, you will get up to 10 hours of my time in helping you with your site; and all the proceeds of that $2000 will go toward our forums this year. More than likely I'll just share most of it with our moderation and admin team!
I know it sounds like a lot to you, so don't worry if you don't want to contribute $2000 USD for my time. It's perfectly OK by me; as I am fully committed to our community this year!
Best of luck in 2014 and thank you again for the kind words!