Is it wise to leave links in your header/navbar in your archive page? The reason I ask is because I understand that google starts at the first link it sees and works down from there. If it crawls those links, will it stop? Does anyone know?

@SkuZZy-

Have we found a way to eleiminate that blank page we get when clicking the category link?

The blank page when clicking a category would probably be fixable, but I haven't bothered to fix it because it doesn't really matter whether or not it works. The bottom line is, this archive works. It's by all means not a "pretty archive" but it gets the job done and it gets pages spidered. Google doesn't start at the first link it sees and goes from there... google will spider all links. Regardless of what is at the top. Don't worry about the first link being a dead one, google really doesn't care.

SkuZZy

Holy mother. Congrats, that is a great amount of pages! You need to remember, google only allows so many pages to be indexed per cycle. So even though you have more thn 6000 threads, that's all google is gonna give you this time around ;) The next month, another 6000, ect. This is to prevent googleboe from being overloaded, as spidering 50000 page sites isn't exactly easy to do. Please let me know if your hits increase. Right now google is still dancing, but watch in the next 3 days and see after that if your hits increase, they are bound to!

I noticed that past few days, google has been very active on my site.

And about the dead links in the navbar, yes, that was a big concern. Someone told me that if google tries to spide these first, there could be a problem, but judging from my results, I see that is not the case.

And yes, we get some forum members who actually go the archive to read it, thats why I asked about the dead category links.

BTW, here's my seach link;
Macfora.com

muhahaha, smoothie. You are going to get tons of hits once google is done dancing. That is some spider you got! Congrats.

And now on a sad note, i've released the final version of this hack. I suggest everyone download it, because it's the final version... and it's stable. Hopefully this hack shall live on forever. Sorry to everyone for not getting around to adding cool new stuff, like the category thing mentioned above. Just no time lately and i've got to stop doing some stuff and with vb3 coming up, there realy is no need to continue this archive. All the die hards who stay with vb 2.2.9, this hack will be for you ;)

SkuZZy

Is there any need to upgrade if the version we use works? What is new about this final version?

It won't hurt to upgrade. Just upload all files EXCEPT config.php and nothing will change at all, atleast not that google will know of
. Nothing much changed, just cleaned up the code a bit and changed the copyright around. Everyone should upgrade though, just because... final versions rock :D

@SkuZZy-

many thanks for this hack!

When we upgrade to vbulletin3, will our forums history in google still redirect to the proper pages? or will they all be dead links?

Good question. I'm assuming the old links will work. The URL hasn't changed in vb3... it still looks the same.