I would never spend $150.00 on an encrypted file :rolleyes: We love our database far too much :)

had to un-install because some links wouldnt work.

Links like "Find threads started by XXX"

I am now a proud owner of a vbSEO license.... it's 100% worth the money.

Enjoy your expensive license. We?re happy for you? really :) Especially if you?re not affiliated with vbSEO. However I really do think you?re celebrating a little bit early, and putting the cart before the horse, because you have NO idea what that encrypted code is really doing behind your back to your database. For all you know it could be sending them every one of your members passwords, or security information which pertains to your server, God knows what that encrypted code is really doing, but that?s something that you?ll learn, maybe the hard way. Cheers :)

I'm not sure why people are posting VBSEO posts here when this thread has nothing to do with that product.

I would think this falls under the "Self-Promotion" vb.org rules especially when some of these members are affiliates (beta-testers) of vbseo.

I'm also a bit surprised that the vbseo thread has not come under fire regarding "Rules Regarding Commercial/Paid Hacks".

I am not an affiliate of any sort, I am a paid member. This hack (vbRanking) is dead- the author doesn't reply and hasn't for months now. This thread is about a dead SEO hack/addon, and I was simply making a statement that I have since gone over.
Oh and Bubble #5, no one would be stupid enough to make a paid addon, and have it steal passwords (passwords which by the way are encrypted and can not be decrypted- atleast not to this date, or so says Vbulletin and many other websites )

I'm taking a chance, as I am a risk taker- you get no where in life, if you take no risks.... playing it safe is not living at all.

Well.. given that the affiliate program was only announced today..it's highly unlikely that any of the people who have made posts about the alternative (vBSEO) are affiliates of its program.

My post was simply to tell people of my experiences with BOTH this hack (pretty much useless, lacking support) and vBSEO (rewrites almost every URL by default, and can easily be configured to do the rest, and the support rocks.).

*edit* There is NO rule that says that discussion of alternatives to exisitng hacks is disallowed. Of that I am certain.

I think all comments concerning competition/state of related hack should be posted in some sort of thread in General Modification Discussion. Leaving all posts in a specific hack thread pertaining to only bugs, constructive critisizm and/or praise. This way this thread is less cluttered with promotion of another hack, and people's voice can still be heard. :)

Yes, it is an unfinished product.
However, it does not say anywhere that this hack is SUPPORTED.

The author simply made it available for everyone. He wanted to share his work and I think it's one HELL OF A GOOD ADDON.

i thought, that all hack released on vbulletin.or have to be supportet by its programmers.

am i wrong?

Support is not required.

You can check if a mod is supported by checking it's attributes (the checkboxes on the top right next to the mod title).

yes, you are wrong. hacks are not required to be supported and rightly so. you have to look at the first box to see if it is marked to see whether or not it is supported.

these programmers are already doing the community a big favor by releasing their work. just because they release a hack doesn't necessarily mean they have the time or inclination to support it.

I have installed this hack and have problem with accessing statistic installed (webalizer statistic). It is probably that rewrite mod is asking for php file but this statistic has originally html sites. I am trying to type original url adress for specific statistic site, but it is not working for me.

FYI: I am getting this:
he requested URL /stat/usage_200511.php was not found on this server.
But in adress bar I have ... .com/usage_200511.html

Anybody has any idea how to avoid this? When i delete .httaccess, the problem is gone... (but I assume I need .httaccess for vbranking)

Thank you for help

same problem

And what brings you to that conclusion?
I am curiouse because gsitemap wich is based on the python code released by google to create a sidemap picks up the session urls of my forum.

I don?t want to question your knowledge but I want to make sure I am not going to make a mistake.

Because if google would pick up session urls that would meen massive douplicated content

Oops. Since the Author has gone AWOL, I'll post my suggestion to the community at large...

Using the HTML extension instead of HTM is bad practice because older (very much older!) Operating Systems/browsers could only recognise 3-digit file extensions. You might possibly encounter other problems with poorly-written or old software that utilises webpages. You can correct this in the mod by simply using Find>Replace to change all the HTMLs to HTMs in both the php file and the XML file.

It's a very minor point admittedly, but it's worth doing for compatibility purposes and in case you lock out your grandmother or something :)

I will check this out later.

I uploaded the .htacces to my root and I can't access my page anymore?? what the hell??

If this hack is no longer being supported, there are other SEO solutions available. I would advise checking out our Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100435

There are also other mod_rewrite solutions available here.

[high]* Mudvayne clicks install
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Installed & Working :D

Actually this isn't correct. Older browsers always supported longer than 3 digit file extensions. It was the servers handing out the pages to the browsers that couldn't handle .HTML extensions because their file system supported only 3 letters.

I was using the first versions of Netscape and Mozilla on Windows 3.x without any problems fetching any file extensions. You could always tell when you were visiting a Windows server verses a Unix box because of the 3 digit extensions.

HTM or HTML has always been a non-issue.

is there a demo or a site that is using this vbranking that i can check out ?

my login doesnt work after i install this... does anyone here knows what to doo in this cas? what do i need to change..? Sorry Im still a newbie on this!

I have it exactly this way

Thanks!

we uninstall it 3/4 month ago...still its a pain to us

Installed and ready to go. Thanks guys. Nice feature :banana:

what different is this from the others etc?

will this hack is not working on ve 3.6.5

Is there another vergion of this hack that works on 3.6.5 ???

thanks

can I get a simmiler hack or prodect for 3.6.5 ???

thanks

works as well for 3.6.x :)

I like it, but for some reason when I click a link on my forum home going to a post it will show the html link, but when I load the page it stays html, once it fully loads it reverts back to php. That's the only time it does it. If I load it from just going into a forum category and selecting a topic it works fine.

I love it though it's way better than VBSEO, because on VBSEO if you changed to it and google indexed your old links then when someone click a old link on google they would get a 404. Anyway this way both the php and html links work, but html is default. Nice job! *Wishes he could install multiple times*

This is a great mod, but is it possible to set the URLs to use the title of the post in the friendly URL?

is it good for 3.7 Gold ?