We’ve hit the two month mark for the case study on vBSEO’s affect on search engine indexing and increasing web traffic. First lets get to the search engine site:haloboards.com numbers:

site:haloboards.com (Google) down 3,400 to 25,000

site:haloboards.com (Yahoo) down 1,826 to 11,543

site:haloboards.com (MSN) up 64 to 215!!! (lol)

This week’s numbers were kind of funny. I know the drops are just typical search engine fluctuations because when I checked out the numbers earlier today they were even higher than what is listed above so I’m not too concerned at all. What is most important to me is vBSEO’s affect on sending more traffic to my forum and here are some graphs from Google Analytics:

April 10th to May 10th (1 month before vBSEO installation)

May 11th to June 11th (1 month after vBSEO installation)

June 12th to July 12th (2 months after vBSEO installation)

As you can see from the numbers, the search engine traffic went down a few percentage points after the first month but this month regained the lost ground and more to surpass the stats from before the vBSEO installation. The gains aren’t huge yet, but I am pleased with the results thus far. I think that GamingVidz has had better results so far, but the vBSEO has been installed on that site longer than for HaloBoards (it also has nearly ten times as many posts). I still recommend using vBSEO’s“>vBSEO to improve your site’s search engine indexing and increase search engine traffic for vBulletin forums.

Have these case studies helped you decide wether or not to purchase a vBSEO license for your forum?