Thanks J-P, I appreciate it. :)

How's this working for everyone, has anyone noticed any bugs? Has anyone checked how indexing is going on their forum after the last update?

I had to turn it off after the last update as it was slowing my page loading time on all pages from 0.23415 seconds to 3.41375 seconds.

What was strange while it was taking longer for pages to load the server load was normal.

By turning off the Plugin the page load times went back to normal.

I'll look into the slowdown. If you turn off the recentQueries in the adminCP options that should fix the slowdown, so you can continue to use it. I'm going to optimize it to make it work better and faster though. Thanks for the heads up, it wasn't slowing down the forum I was working with, but that doesn't meant that's how it will be for each user.

Alright, I just released v1.6. This update made drastic changes to the table that held the recent queries. Therefore it should run a lot faster, and you should not notice any change in the load time on your forum.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention Scottct1. I appreciate it. :)

Hey everyone, I just wanted to repost this from earlier.


Let me give you (and others a few tips). Most of my sales that were made during testing came from actual organic searches from search engines, not from the members of my own forum. I would start by promoting the feature on your site to your users. Mention that it is a way for them to help support your site since you earn a commission on every purchase. This goes a long way since members are often ready and willing to help support their favorite forum.

Next, get some organic traffic coming into the search pages. For this, you need to get some backlinks to some of the search result pages. This is as simple as displaying a few search url's in your signature on your forum, and encouraging your users to do that same.

We may also be able to create a side block that perhaps stores and shows the most popular searches? Doing this has the benefit of drawing attention to the search, but also gets some links in which helps get pages indexed and ultimately leads to sales.

Last but not least, be patient. It took me several weeks to start getting search traffic to my product search. After that, sales started to roll in slowly, and now I get several per day and have almost 7 million pages indexed. It went from my forum struggling to make money to being quite the money maker for me, but it took time .

So all in all, give this time. Sales will come, one just has to be patient. :)

Can not upgrade 1.6 XML file

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Do we have any type of responsibility for sale or giving search option, as they are searching through our forum?

Need to have any kind of disclaimer from our side?

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Nope, no disclaimer is needed.

hi,

just tried to install this in vbulletin 4.1.9 forum

and forum index now is a blank page with the following error message:

have removed all files & uninstalled the xml file so the forum will function again. any suggestions?

also the install instructions say there are 4 files and 2 images in the folder which need to be ftp'ed in but I am seeing 6 php files + 5 images in /img/

thanks :)