Multiple Site Errors Due to Forum
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We are currently working with a website that is receiving multiple errors through their vbulletin forum.
These errors include:
- duplicate meta descriptions
- duplicate title tags
- duplicates title tags and meta descriptions from the archives as well
The forums do not drive a lot of traffic but people are active on there. Would you recommend no-indexing the entire forum plus the archives or is there a better solution for that?
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I see this with client sites a lot - Default VB is an SEO disaster, and the options they have don't really provide the webmaster with the tools to correct it. I have recommended a plugin in to clients in the past, http://www.vbseo.com/, which appears to have good reviews and is easy to use - though I don't have any experience with it myself. I'd suggest checking it out, as from my research I was unable to find other solutions for optimizing VBulletin forums.
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