Brett Reilly’s Blog

I thought I would share some tricks I found around online this week as I was tweaking VBSEO, enhancing your seo experience.

Using Relevant Replacements:

What I did was copy vbseo style 2.0 for these and placed them in my template, this gives a higher keyword relevant for thread and post pages.
http://www.vbseo.com/f60/how-setup-relevant-replacements-vbseo-19325/

If your on a vps or dedicated server you can move your htaccess rewrite files to your httpd.conf file:
http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/mert-goekceimam/how-move-htaccess-rules-into-httpd-conf-whm-241/

As well as nofollow to all members names as these are not important as it is the content they write and not there details that matter to Google, but that’s my opinion.

There is an unlimited amount of configuration you can do with VBSEO the main one is url rewriting, which you will be the first thing you have setup, you can also check vbulletinsetup.com or VBSEO for more tips and tricks, it really depends what you want to do.

As I was setting up this server to run a few blogs, I came across a few bugs, I tried to fix the myself, though my knowledge of DNS and firewalls failed me, but now I have learned the importance of RTFM first.

But I did find some really great help from getafreelacer.com, found a guy named nick from serverbuddies.com.

Nick from Serverbuddies helped set up my Virtualmin server had it done by the end of the day and runs beautifully and smooth, what he did for me was get email working, fixed a few server boo boo’s and set up the firewall so the server is safe and secure, there was great communication and great feedback from Nick.

So if your setting up a dedicated server or VPS and need some help with any software configuration there here to help, so why not visit today and get your server running smoother and safer.

What a pathetic broken down site godaddy.com is. it just doesn’t work, I opened up an account with them over a year ago, they were cheap, as I found out they were nasty to.

Was using it as a secondary testing to my home server, But had got frustrated to the point it was not worth the effort to to setup a sub-domain and test email took over an hour, the navigation is impossible in the least.

Anyway decided to close the account today, as I am not using it, save time I thought, use the search function the default is not to search the site but to search for a domain, the second was the search function works intermittently and comes up with nothing.

Attempting the simplest tasks is daunting and unwarranted mess, just lucky they have a business model that runs on price point, otherwise they wouldn’t last long, If you use godaddy and you find your way around easily, well good luck to you, I like the simple life.

Cpanel PHP Mysql and a server is all you need to run a website, not all the crap that godaddy.com have.

Unless you .net of course.

Well as I was moving to a new server I was stuck with the dilemma of being for the first time on a reseller hosting, just like standard everyday hosting only much more configurable and  all the websites can be separate, instead of them appearing to someone elses.

The problem I had and could not find the solution for until, (my birthday was on the 3rd of april) Went out for drinks last night, threw up, felt like shit, never had a hang over like this before, crap. The domain wasn’t propagating and 30 emails later was about to give up.
The one thing they didn’t tell me was that I had to do this.

dns1.yourdomain.com
dns2.yourdomain.com
dns3.yourdomain.com
dns??.theirdomain.com <—what I had to do, makes so much sense. (the first in the dns zone)
Probably obvious to most but happy now its all back up and running.