I second that last post..

Essentially, fastforward's hack, but applied to every page in every thread, also to memberlist, avatarlist, search pages and changed most PHP files so that sessionhash and dynamic URLs are eliminated except for latest posts etc. - too extensive to release. I don't really look forward to vB3 when I have to recode all the files again. :)

Thanks for the compliment too.

Though it's a little off topic...and I just want to chime in a little bit here....
I use vbportal and google spiders my site almost everyday (usually 20 robots at a time), somtimes twice a day. It doesn't list all the posts in the search engine, at one time it did but dropped a bunch, however the big pitfall is that Google uses up around one gig of my bandwidth a month. I have a small site and that is still way to high.

I may start blocking Google just because of this....just a little warning if your inviting Google.

Cheers Anyway
Mike

Perhaps you should create a non-graphical style that is used when the googlebot visits? I'm sure this wouldn't be too hard to hack in.

Good point being made here. I can see how some people might be concerned with this. I should point out, the archive scripts i'm releasing are very, very small in size the way they come. Of course, if you add images and styles into them, then they get much bigger. But using them the way they are, the bandwidth used will be virtually un-noticable. When it comes to getting google to archive your posts, the simpler = the better ;)

You can use robots.txt to block Google or any other spiders spidering specific sections of your site or certain files like .gif etc.

SkuZZy- This is something I need to have before using this. I only have one private forum, but it's the mod forum. Some pretty heavy stuff goes on there. I would need to block this forum.

Also, in your instructions;Whats the best way to do this? Just a plain old link on forumhome? Then other members will be able to view it?

I'll see about adding something to block out private forums, shouldn't be too hard. About the link, just add a text link to it at the bottom of your forums or whatever. You don't need to do this, you could just add the site to google (http://www.google.com/addurl.html) but linking it on your site is the best and fastest way to get it spidered... plus it will inherit your "PR" which will help the pages rank higher.

Doesn't Xenon's Hack block all private forums to guests, and normal members.

Smoothie, just add a link at the bottom :)

Ok, probably a dumb question, but after I add the link to my forums, what link do I submit to google?