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first off i want to thank you for such a great site, you helped me narrow down a long search on what was wrong with my forum, i have a large forum motorbicycling DOT com which i had someone remove vbseo before they went under because of all the security problems. anyway i have lots of 404 errors that are .html and from what i am reading it seems my rewrite rules might not have been redone or something i am not really sure. i am older and they invented calculators when i was in school so not to good with computers. also since my removal of vbseo my seo has dropped considerably. can you please recommend someone to hire (hopefully neo) to look over and fix what is needed. also its great to see i am not the only one that has stuck with vb3. everyone i have talked to has told me i need to update to 4 and with the great seo you all have i know without a doubt that vb4 is not necessary. thank you!
paul

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!

thank you neo. actually cannot afford that much at this time. I had paid someone to remove vbseo and was told it would take a hit on seo so I expected it and now I know I should not have taken the kind of hit I did but that is water under the bridge and I need to move on to fix it. reason I believe it is leftover from vbseo is I am getting lots of not found errors with .html on them. I understand your commitment to your site and admire you guys hard work shows. if you ever head this way let me know, we got phenomenal diving here in the virgin islands. a wall that drops to 12,100 feet. first 120 feet of it is amazing

Cheers!

Likewise; and you are always welcome to ask specific technical questions here free of charge on SEO or any topic related to unix and linux-based servers and services.

thanks neo, I am learning a lot from your site. keep up the good work

Thanks.

I assume you saw my earlier thread on vBSEO already?

Removing VBSEO for vbulletin – Reverting back to vbulletin URLs

yes I have read it and going to read it again tonight after work. most of the things are above my head. I am still learning daily however I am not very computer literate at all, I have in the past always had someone do my updates. I know how to do basic things like simple ad on and most of the vbulletin admin functions. I have a dedicated server and only thing I have done their is upload photo's and basic stuff like that. I have crashed the forum more then once by getting in over my head so I am pretty cautious anymore lol