Hello vBSEO Customers and Friends,

The vBSEO team is hard at work developing the next generation of enhancements for your vBulletin community. One of the most popular plugins in the vBulletin community is the vBSEO Sitemap Generator, currently in use by tens of thousands of sites.

We are extremely pleased to inform you that a fully revamped version of the vBSEO Sitemap Generator, v3.0 Pre-Release, is being released to all customers effective immediately!


About the "Pre-Release" build
The new sitemap has been extensively tested in numerous forums and we are confident of it's stability, however this release will not undergo the usual beta testing period that enables testing across many more environments and platforms. For that reason we won't tag it "Gold" at this time, but rather allow a short (strict) period of 24hrs (or less) to make this release officially "Gold".

Increased SERPS per search queries!
Most (if not all) testers have reported SIGNIFICANT increases in search engine results listings per search queries. That is, after installing the new sitemap, sites are seeing more of their pages come up, more often, for different search queries.

So what is the secret? It came to us as a surprise! The new sitemap alters the way data is structured in fundamental ways. Sitemap 3.0 segments different content areas into separate files, so you end up with a unique set of files per content type: forums, blogs, cms, groups, albums, members, tags, etc. In addition, the new sitemap has an extended priority feature that utilizes the built in 'weight' tool of the vBulletin XML sitemap generator for individual forums, CMS sections and articles to act as a multiplier.

We believe these changes are responsible of delivering the increased returns we are seeing from the preliminary numbers. Please do us (and yourself) a favor and check it out in your own forums! (screenies from webmaster tools and Google Analytics are very much welcomed)

A Clean and Beautiful Interface
The new sitemap also features a clean and beautiful interface, built from the ground up. We believe it reflects the quality, precision and attention to detail placed into each aspect of this release. We are passionate about building software, and great software is beautiful inside, and out.

Goes "Gold" in 24 hours, Pre-Release build available NOW to Customers *only*
Again, we are making version 3.0 available in Pre-release state for 24 hours (or less), unless anything major comes up, we expect to tag this release "Gold" within this time period, at which point we will open the download up for non-customers.

Download Location
All Licensed users may download the NEW vBSEO Sitemap 3.0 Pre-Release from the downloads area https://www.vbseo.com/downloads/#sitemap_3

Installation & Upgrade
Find detailed installation and upgrade instructions within the readme.html file included in 'docs' folder of the installation package.


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