vb.org Archive - vRewrite - SEOed URLs for vBulletin

Ok, I've installed and it appears to be working fine now. I'll test more in tomorrow. Just one question...

How will a post like this "http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/north-eastern-general-discussion-forum/t-fishing-regulation-question-4368.html"

get spidered?

If I do a google search for, "North Eastern...etc..." Will it come up, or do people have to search for, "north-eastern-...etc..."?

I am not an expert in SEO, so I will not answer this question :).
[high]* Bhuwan hopes a SEO expert hijacks this psot :D lol[/high]

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Why the dashes? Also, do I really need the prefix's before each link. Can I remove the dashes? Would it make sense?

You could replace the ddashes with anything you want, but my understanding is that it makes most sense.
If you removed the Dashes then you'd have something like this

thread-name-goes-here would actually be:
threadnamegoeshere
very difficult to read

If you replace it with spaces, you would be shown as
thread%20name%20goes etc...

So as you can see, - was the best option :)

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Submitting to google like this... SHould I submit, www.mysite.com or www.mysite.com/vBulletin

Thanks!

Thanks!

Again, I am no SEO Expert, so I will leave this question.

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Boredello

Seem to have it working now.... However it is taking away my images directory... and buttons and such.... hmm?

Like my forum isn't displaying showthread button etc...

the main page is fine just the forums.... they are losing all of their images.

edit: blah I cannot figure out what is causing this... Didn't see any other people with this issue...hmm

Hopefully ou have this resolved. Please holla if you don't.

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by saidev

I got that too, when a user click on "New Post" after they logged in, they get that error message, I found that if you remove the "/" at the end, it will work, but I don't expect my user to know how to to that. I've checked the .htaccess file, notice that rule does not have "/" when the string terminate. I guess is in the interal works of the plugin which I am not sure where to look....anyone?

I made a big BOO BOO when i uploaded the htaccess file
Everyone should edit their htaccess file and remove the existing search rewrite and replae it with

Code:

RewriteRule ^search-(.*).html$ search.php?do=$1 [L]

That's assuming that the URL is /search-getnew.html

if you use:/search-getnew.html/
then your htaccess should be this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^search-(.*).html/$ search.php?do=$1 [L]

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Gastongr

Hi this is a great hack!
i instaled and it's running well.

Just a frew problems (i don't know if they have been posted before, i have searched and haven't found an answer):

1)

In members pages, for example http://www.webmastershelp.com/u-coolguy-244.html

The link to the last post the user has done doesn't work, vbulletin returns the following error

Sounds like an htaccess problem; please pm me your htaccess file.

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Originally Posted by Gastongr

2
When viewing a forum, under the thread titles there is a link to the thread author profile which opens in a new window. that link is like
/u-username-214.html/
instead of
/u-username-214.html
i don't know why but it still loads the page, but with path errors for images and styles.

I am not sure exacrtly what location your speaking of; can you take a screen shot?

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Originally Posted by Gastongr

3

in the /online.php page, when someone is viewing a forum or thread the link to that forum or thread is incorrect, the forum or thread name are missed.
for example
t--334.html

This damn problem has become a nightmare for me LOL :D -- still can't get the online.php correct :-(.
I will try again.

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by morrow

Uninstalling again... Cannot change display modes (Hybrid / Linear...etc...). If someone is using Hybrid mode, clicking on 'show more posts below this thread' doesn't work.

Nice hack, just a bit too buggy at this time.

A wihle back I asked if someone needed support for this; I got no response and thus never added this feature
Where were you man :-(

Maybe in the future, but for now these modes are not supported :(
Sorry

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Gastongr

Hi bhuwan, nice to hear that :)
could you please check my previous post?, it's the last one of the previous page.
Thanks in advance :)
Gaston

I think I replied to it... let me know :)

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by yayvb

I'll give it a try perhaps. I definitely want to be using the product, but since both of my sites use the comment system and the comment system doesn't work I can't really use this until that issue is fixed, or another comment system is introduced.

Also I was previously having issues with the links on the xstats not working either in some cases. I disabled for both of my sites but would love to try again in the future. :)

ADding support for member that hack is on the way, but if you really want to use this product, why not disable member.php rewriting? :)
PM me a liost of other hacks you use, I am going to start adding support for them now...

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Frapegliko

Works great

edited :

If i Click on New Posts then i will stay on Home :tired:

Seems akward,PM me a link to your site.

Bhuwan

04-18-2006 06:10 PM

If I missed replying to someones problems, sorry! Please post it again!

Gastongr

04-18-2006 06:22 PM

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I think I replied to it... let me know

Yup you did, pm sent :)

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