I have a few questions

[Axed99]

I was planning to buy xenforo, but i wanted to know, does this have a CMS?

is the resource manager similar to ip.board nexus? or downloads, and is the seo easy to use. I have tried the demo but it seems a bit hard to navigate.

 

[Axed99]

Thank you Jeremy appreciated and thank you Henrik.

 

[Claudio]

Wow ok great, I think I will purchase it, yes I have a company doing my SEO at the moment, but if I can just get on google, then I won't need them anymore

Be really careful about who you hire...recently a customer website was penalized by Google due Black SEO 7 months after he paid a company to improve the SEO of his website...
It seems they created a lot of backlinks and the made effect on the ranking but then Google changed the search algorithm and this affected his website

 

[Axed99]

Thank you for the advice claudio, they have said they only do white hat, I'm not sure what there going to do but I think I am going to cancel it.

 

[Axed99]

Need some quick advice guys, before I buy Xenforo I want to check out the SEO options, I am currently in the demo can someone tell me where it is in Xenforo admin cp?

 

[Paul B]

What are you looking for exactly?

Have a look in Options -> Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

 

[Axed99]

Ok is there any more options?

 

[Andrej]

You still have not answered Brogan's question.

What are you looking for exactly?

Additional links:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/semantic-html.892/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/html-5-microdata-in-breadcrumb.12347/

 

[Axed99]

like where i input the keywords and configure the setting etc, board info and change url paths etc.

 

[Jeremy]

The SEO as it exists is fairly good, what paths are you looking to change. The SEO options are as is, and not highly customized similar to say, vBSEO.

 

[Axed99]

Oh ok, well I guess I will just buy the software and play around with it and see what happens haha!, but yes im used to IPB seo, with the settings like fixing the urls, using path info, setting keywords that your board exists off so you can index in google using those keywords, im used to the help in IPB where it gives you advice on how to set up the SEO with not important and important changes that need to be made to SEO, im looking for those options. Does Xenforo index it self and set the appropriate keywords? or do you have these options in the software?

 

[Paul B]

FYI, Google doesn't use the keywords meta tag in web search.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/

 

[Axed99]

Oh ok wow, I didn't know that I guess that whole part in IPB is useless then? am I correct?

 

[Paul B]

Other search engines may use it.

 

[Axed99]

Ok thank you for clarifying I have one more question if you don't mind. So basically when I install Xenforo I don't need to do anything to the SEO it is all setup right?

 

[HenrikHansen]

Ok thank you for clarifying I have one more question if you don't mind. So basically when I install Xenforo I don't need to do anything to the SEO it is all setup right?

For ordinary users not SEO fanatics, yes. It is all done

 

[Axed99]

Ok, great well looks like I am purchasing

 

[Dillon Lawrence]

Oh ok, well I guess I will just buy the software and play around with it and see what happens haha!, but yes im used to IPB seo, with the settings like fixing the urls, using path info, setting keywords that your board exists off so you can index in google using those keywords, im used to the help in IPB where it gives you advice on how to set up the SEO with not important and important changes that need to be made to SEO, im looking for those options. Does Xenforo index it self and set the appropriate keywords? or do you have these options in the software?

You could setup a demo and then try indexing the pages here:
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Though obviously Google, Bing etc. may index pages differently. To be honest, I don't know of any search engines which do rely on Meta Tags.

 

[Axed99]

You could setup a demo and then try indexing the pages here:
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Though obviously Google, Bing etc. may index pages differently. To be honest, I don't know of any search engines which do rely on Meta Tags.

Ok great, I am doing a little more research on the SEO before I purchase. Thank you for the great advice.

 

[Axed99]

I have one more question guys, with the resource manager can you setup subscriptions? and also, how do you add a paid file without needing to add a external url?

 

[oman]

I have one more question guys, with the resource manager can you setup subscriptions? and also, how do you add a paid file without needing to add a external url?

1. What sort of subscriptions? Paid subscriptions to resources?
2. You would need to use a third party add on, as the Resource Manager doesn't currently handle purchases internally.