The folks over at Jelsoft recently launched a Blog add-on named vBulletin Blog (vBlog). Many community admins are taking this opportunity to add a blog to their forums. 

NuSEO.PHP version 1.6 first introduced support for vBlog. And now we are happy to announce a slew of new features added to NuSEO.PHP v1.7 RC1 which enable full configuration and customization of your vBlog site structure.

High Performance has been one of the main cornerstones in the design and development of NuSEO.PHP since day one. It comes as no surprise that most of the changes and features added to NuSEO.PHP version 1.6 are intended to enhance performance and reduce server load. For instance, NuSEO.PHP now adds no extra queries to vBulletin's Forum Home.

Google's Webmaster Guidelines insist to "...Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would...." (Google's Webmaster Guidelines)

Given this "limitation" of Search Engine bots, it is very important to make it easy for them to determine what each of your site's pages is about.

One way to do this is to use H1 tags to enclose your page's title, or a sentence indicating what the page is about.

However, H1 tags are usually big, with lots of spacing, and take up a whole line. The trick is to add H1 tags without affecting your carefully designed web layout.

Recently our customers requested a NuSEO.PHP Module for Project Tools (this is the first commercial add-on produced by Jelsoft for vBulletin). I started playing with Project Tools and I have to say that I am impressed with this software. So much so that we have decided to use it to power our support portal.

NuWiki v1.3 RC1 is now available for download from the Premium Members Area.

New Features

• Implemented [readmore] BBCode, which tells NuWiki how much of an article to show in a NuWiki Auto-Link Preview.
  
• Added option to control whether NuWiki BBCodes are available in regular forums.
  
• Added "Dynamic Articles Enabled" option. If set, articles containing TEMPLATE, FORUMINDEX or BOOKINDEX BBCodes are not cached. This is done to allow for the dynamic content generated by these BBCodes. (This is Off by default).
  
• Added option to disable support for legacy wiki link and headline formats.
  
• Added options to control whether these BBCodes are enabled: FOOTNOTES, TABLE, DIV, SPAN.
  
• Added option to disable Tables of Content.
  
• Added option to add the link to top next to headlines.
  
• Added option to completely disable NuWiki's BBCode Parser.