Thanks a lot!

Do you have a solution for the "=" issue at the end of the links?

The URLs you showed uses vBulletin's Friendly URL library, DBSEO doesn't allow for = at the end of links I don't think.

I can't assist with issues in vB's friendly URL library unfortunately :(


Fillip

We have 700k posts in our forum, when I submitted a sitemap, it says only 100k+ were only submitted. How come that happened?

The other posts are most likely in forums where guests do not have the permission to view thread contents.


Fillip

All posts are visible to guests. I just double checked.. ANy other possible cause?

Are you looking at submitted or indexed threads?

It's not advised to submit both posts and threads, and it's not advised to submit individual posts as the threads provide more context than posts do. vB4 also does not provide a dedicated "view individual post" page, so by including posts you are generating a lot of duplicate content.

Fillip

DragonByte SEO v2.0.34

Changed Features:

• Database errors will now no longer mention DragonByte SEO at all if the error was not caused by any database tables related to DBSEO.

Bug Fixes:

• If your site runs with both HTTP and HTTPS, internal links using the protocol other than the one listed in the vBulletin Options will now also be converted into titles

Fillip

Hello! I went though the tags list in the mod and deleted the ones that were nothing... which was like 90% of them. Then I added a lot of words to the keywords list.

After that I did the "add tags" under "manage content tags" and it showed the first 250 items processing, but never progressed anywhere. So I did the "reset tags" feature, also under "manage content tags".
I still can't get the add tags tool to progress.. No matter how many content items per page I put, or how short of a date range I put it just sits on those items. Some times it will show "processing complete - proceed" at the bottom, but if it click it, it still doesn't move on to the next set or anything.
Thanks!

I spent a lot of time with the tags functionality because it seemed like a really useful feature that I wanted to leverage. I applied tags then I deleted them with the reset option as you did. It all worked properly for me in terms of the mechanics of applying and removing tags but the problem was once tags were applied, it resulted in an enormous amount of database activity, which I believe had to deal with the Tag Cloud functionality in VBulletin. I ended up trying a few things to address that. I changed some parameters to reduce the number of tags in the cloud, I tried to narrow down which subforums had tags applied, but nothing I did actually worked. The symptom that consistently appeared is that posts would temporarily disappear in threads. I think the excess of database activity somehow caused the post index to get corrupted. I tried to get support and in general have found DragonByte to be very good from that perspective but in this case in the end they weren't able to help me. I ended up having to turn this off. I have a pretty big/busy forum. It might work with a forum that has a smaller database and less activity.

Yeah the tagging feature will re-tag every single thread which can lead to a very bloated DB with slow searches if you have an absolutely massive amount of threads.

As for the lack of progress, that could be a PHP timeout. Make sure display_errors is turned on in php.ini :)


Fillip

Thanks guys. The tags that the system (not sure if it was drogonbyte or vbulletin) had was stupid to be honest (they were listed in vbulletin options so I think it was them). That's why I cleared it all out and made my own list of key words and have it selected to only use those keywords (if I'm understanding its use correctly).
Since using only those words most posts won't even end up having tags when before, they did- many tags that were of no relevance to the actual topic. So I think this will have the database even smaller than it was.
I did turn skip_all_errors to false in config.php and didn't see any error messages, does that do the same thing?
I also substituted the skip all errors line for : ini_set("display_errors", true); and didn't get any erros that way either. The page just sits there like it is working, but nothing actually seems to happen.

For the heck of it I just re uploaded the files and tried again. Leaving the content items per page at 250 I get the error
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ......dbtech/dbseo/actions/admin/tagging.php on line 161
If I do less than 250 at a time, it does the same as it was, looks like it is progressing (even refreshes and takes you back to the top if you have scrolled down) but doesn't progress to different threads.

Have you tried a really low value like 10 or even 1? Just to test it, I mean :)


Fillip

I had done 5 with the same result (looking like it is doing something, but doesn't progress). I just now tried 1 and it seems to be doing something even faster, but still no. I say it seems like it is doing something because it flashes "waiting for www.terraforums.com" pretty quickly in the lower corner when with more items it does this slower. It does show "processing complete - proceed" but it doesn't make a difference if I click it or not and stays on the same item that's processing.
You already have an account on my forum so I think you can access the DBT SEO section of it if you want to try it out.
Thanks!

still got db errors sometimes:

I am using Dragon byte for a sitemap.

http://www.scam.com/dbseositemap.php

When I submit to Google I get this error:

Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

How do I fix this?

Just a quick question here. I was a user of vbSEO for years, and when they went defunct, and my website was hacked because of some vulnerable scripts, I uninstalled it and reverted back to the default vBulletin URLS.

Now I am considering purchasing the Dragonbyte version and I'm wondering if the new URLs will match those that the old vbSEO had generated.

Any ideas? Thanks!

That seems to be a problem with your .htaccess file or your web host.

If you still have the vBSEO config file in its original location, DBSEO can import it.

Do be aware the vBSEO importer is Pro-only :)


Fillip

Thanks Filip. I think I might have that. I need to dig around a little. :)

I've found vbseo_all.xml and vbseo_urls.xml on my desktop that I backed up a couple of years ago. Can DBSEO import these? Especially the vbseo_all file - that seems to have my old settings. Please let me know. Thanks!

Another question - vBSEO had a function that defined acronyms. You could mouse over these and the definition would be displayed. Pretty much what this plugin here is doing:
www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=320619

The code was

<value><![CDATA['seo' => 'Search Engine Optimization'
'pr' => 'Press Release' ]]></value> for example.

is this available in DBSEO?

No, the only files DBSEO imports from are "config_vbseo.xml" for 3.6 and "config_vbseo.php" for earlier versions.

No, this is not available at this time, sorry :(


Fillip

Could always try something like this

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=320619

Not a problem. Installation was easy, and it was best for me to go through each page and make adjustments to the settings. Fantastic product. :up:

Thanks! Will do. :)

My vBSEO installation is still in place, but I cannot access the vBSEO control panel - is that a problem if I want DBSEO to import whatever it needs from vBSEO?

You mention "Pro-only" - does that just mean the commercial version on your website, or is there actually a version called "Pro"?

That's fine, as long as the files are still in place :)

The commercial version @ our site :)


Fillip

DragonByte SEO v2.0.36:

Fix: Fixed an issue where linked "Go To Post" URLs would be transformed to simple "Thread" URLs if Link Titles were enabled

Fillip

My sitemap path is and this path holds these files:
The xml file that should be submitted to search engines is /store_sitemap/dbseo_sitemap_index.xml.gz, correct?

Good afternoon
I have just installed this on my forum.

In my website theme, there are a few images that are like like this: <img src="/images/abc.gif"> for example

As my forum runs off a subdomain, forum.website.com then the image would normally get loaded from http://forum.website.com/images/abc.gif based on the HTML above.

After installing your plugin, it has re-written the URL on the HTML output to the wrong URL:
http://www.website.com/images/abc.gif

The images aren't available as per expected but I find it odd that it is re-writing URLs with my main domain not the subdomain.

Please advise
Thanks

No, please submit /dbseositemap.php instead :)

This is because your image paths start with a slash. This is incorrect, please edit your image paths so instead of src="/images it says src="images


Fillip

Hi Fillip
Thank you for your extremely fast reply, it worked exactly as you said it would.

What do I do in terms of a <a href="/"> where I wanted it to go back to the board index? shall I call index.php or a "." ?

Thanks
Joe

Neither, the correct link is
Fillip

Thank you Fillip you have been extremely helpful.

I have a final question, as I have now been playing with the program a little bit since my first post.

When someone clicks a link that was originally a Mod Rewrite Friendly URL, the forum will now revert back to the forum index.

Is there a way to accept old URLs and possibly have them redirected to the new URL?

Many thanks for all your support!

I think I've found a bug. If a forum has more than one announcement listed then it seems that it joins them together into one link, not differentiating on which announcement you clicked on.

E.G.

Link: Announcement A
Link: Announcement B

Normally clicking Announcement A would load the page with Announcement A details, this doesn't happen. Instead it loads a page with annoumcenent A at the top and announcement B at the bottom.

The same problem when you click Announcement B, Announcement A is listed first then Announcement B.

Either they need to open a separate URL (which it seems they are only opening the combined "View All Announcements" Url) or use a A Name Anchor on the announcement page

Thanks

I've now made a custom error page to handle this issue.
Thanks

Hello, my content keywords according to google are:

1. posts (4 variants)
2. forum (3 variants)
3. thread (5 variants)
4. tagged (4 variants)
5. vbulletin
6. profile (2 variants)
7. plants (5 variants)
8. location (3 variants)
9. copyright (3 variants)
10. dragonbyte
11. avatar (2 variants)
12. addons (2 variants)
13. mods (4 variants)
14. technologies (3 variants)
15. grow (5 variants)
16. nepenthes (2 variants)
17. code (2 variants)
18. terraforums (3 variants)
19. pitcher (6 variants)
20. visit (4 variants)

Which very few have to do with the content of my site. Any idea if this is related to settings of this modification or other settings on the forum?
Thanks!
Andrew

You can use the Manage Keywords interface in the DBSEO CP to add more relevant keywords. They will then be prioritised by the content tagging system.

Fillip

I did do that back in mid July so I would think if it was going to make a difference, it would have by now. Right?

I do not think it has anything to do with DBTech Seo but more with Vbulletin or any forum really.

@RichieBoy67 But the keywords are important are they not? Are you saying there is no way to get the keywords to match the actual content of my forum?
Even my advertising is not related to the topic of the forum anymore... I can't remember when they stopped being but surely there is a way to fix it all.