Is vBSEO dead?

Is it? Because from what I hear elsewhere, development has nearly completely stalled over there and people are jumping ship.

I assume personally it died because of the following:

1. vBulletin implemented most of the basic things vBSEO advertised. And honestly, I suspect about half their userbase was only in it for the human readable URLs, which became standard. These customers presumably didn't bother to renew or keep using it.

2. vBulletin is a bit of a dying script in general. vBSEO didn't bother to expand to cover XenForo, Invision Power Board and other solutions, so when a lot of long time vB customers jumped ship, I expect their revenue took a massive hit.

So yes, is vBSEO a dying script? And if so, what killed it?

 

I don't know if it's dead but I do know they have been on the beta team for vBulletin 5 and have been working to have a release for it when vbulletin 5 goes gold.

 

I dont think vBSEO is dead, but development has slowed down a lot since the vb4 disaster. I'm not sure what the cause of this was, but I can't imagine the uncertain future of vbulletin has helped much as many big board stayed on vb3. It probably did not help either that IB added vbSEO developer Mert to the XenForo lawsuit and that the law suit exposed that IB aimed to copy vBSEO functionality. Mert has left vBSEO.

 

I think vBSEO is dead IMO, they haven't really had anything new for a couple of years now. Only security fixes.

 

I haven't even checked out the software since vBulletin 4 came out. And plus, I've heard about all the stories that it causes your forum to load slow and all. So I would say its getting close to dying.

 

I removed it and haven't looked back.

 

How has your traffic been since the switch?

 

Slight decrease for about a week then I was back up to normal numbers again.

Removing it did bring down my Adsense earnings though by about 20%.

 

I've read a few people saying that the traffic change wasn't bad but adsense did have a noticeable change.
I wonder why?