Among the notable features of vBulletin is the ImpEx, or Import/Export, system. This basically permits administrators using other forum software like phpBB to easily shift to vBulletin by importing data from that forum into the vBulletin forum. Here are the steps involved in transitioning from phpBB to vBulletin.

As an administrator of vBulletin forums, you’re probably frustrated by how rampant forum spam has gone. Here are available solutions that you can use to fight spam registrations in your vBulletin forums.

A growing community of members more needs and demands. To retain your members’ interest in your vBulletin forum, you have to optimize it for maximum performance. If a user visits your community and finds that it’s overloaded with graphics and has a slow loading time, you bet that he/she won’t stick around for long and most probably won’t come back.

Any kind of forum software is server-intensive, especially if the forum houses a large community. Optimizing vBulletin can be helpful for busy forums or for those hosted on a shared server. If the following are done, your forums will definitely be faster and server load would be decreased.

Changing your vBulletin title tag seems minor yet it plays a huge role in search-optimizing your forum. This is because major engines like Google and Yahoo look closely at a webpage’s title tag, among other considerations, to determine what that page is all about.

Remember that optimizing what your visitors are viewing can make all the difference in the world. A few changes in your HTML code can shave several seconds off your pages’ loading time. With the impatient nature of Internet users, a mere 1 to 2 seconds slower may mean hundreds of visitors that won’t give your vBulletin forum a chance.

One area where vBulletin falls behind is the issue of duplicate content. This is because its developers strive to make it as user-friendly as possible and, in the process, made all content accessible through various formats and links.