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I use this hack its amazing ,
but I have problem I choose Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewrite
This requires mod_rewrite support on the web server. but all arabic words dont appear in links and only english words appear in links .

can anybody help me to let arabic words appear in links ?

my fourm work on utf-8

thanks alot

did install and it worked fine for the forums rewrite urls but some other pages were not right..

i have a few pages done in vbadvanced that have url's like this :: index.php?pageid=rules and that just goes to the forums without showing the rules page.. if you got what i mean..

is there a fix for this?.

wD

Rewriting without mod_rewrite works fine, but when using mod_rewrite i just get a 404- Error. Does anyone nows, whats wrong? mod_rewrite is working on the Server..

I don't saw character replacement. Is there character replacement?

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much

Quote:

Originally Posted by star88 (Post 1752838)

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much

hi what this code ?

if im new with SEO stuff :S

is not recommended?

Hi 2 all

I wanted to know is there any Vbseo like site map for this gr8 mod ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rob01 (Post 1752944)

if im new with SEO stuff :S

is not recommended?

hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.

Quote:

Originally Posted by UIQarena (Post 1753135)

hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.

---------------------------

Quote:

Originally Posted by UIQarena (Post 1753135)

hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.

That's a myth:

Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
Written by Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski,
Google Search Quality Team
Monday, September 22, 2008

Quote:

Chatting with webmasters often reveals widespread beliefs that might have been accurate in the past, but are not necessarily up-to-date any more. This was the case when we recently talked to a couple of friends about the structure of a URL. One friend was concerned about using dynamic URLs, since (as she told us) "search engines can't cope with these." Another friend thought that dynamic URLs weren't a problem at all for search engines and that these issues were a thing of the past. One even admitted that he never understood the fuss about dynamic URLs in comparison to static URLs....

Should I try to make my dynamic URLs look static?
Following are some key points you should keep in mind while dealing with dynamic URLs:

It's quite hard to correctly create and maintain rewrites that change dynamic URLs to static-looking URLs.
It's much safer to serve us the original dynamic URL and let us handle the problem of detecting and avoiding problematic parameters.
If you want to rewrite your URL, please remove unnecessary parameters while maintaining a dynamic-looking URL.
If you want to serve a static URL instead of a dynamic URL you should create a static equivalent of your content.

Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs?
We've come across many webmasters who, like our friend, believed that static or static-looking URLs were an advantage for indexing and ranking their sites. This is based on the presumption that search engines have issues with crawling and analyzing URLs that include session IDs or source trackers. However, as a matter of fact, we at Google have made some progress in both areas. While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms of indexing and ranking. Providing search engines with dynamic URLs should be favored over hiding parameters to make them look static.

Let's now look at some of the widespread beliefs concerning dynamic URLs and correct some of the assumptions which spook webmasters. :)

Myth: "Dynamic URLs cannot be crawled."
Fact: We can crawl dynamic URLs and interpret the different parameters. We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to make your urls look static and in the process hide parameters which offer the Googlebot valuable information. One recommendation is to avoid reformatting a dynamic URL to make it look static. It's always advisable to use static content with static URLs as much as possible, but in cases where you decide to use dynamic content, you should give us the possibility to analyze your URL structure and not remove information by hiding parameters and making them look static.

Myth: "Dynamic URLs are okay if you use fewer than three parameters."
Fact: There is no limit on the number of parameters, but a good rule of thumb would be to keep your URLs short (this applies to all URLs, whether static or dynamic). You may be able to remove some parameters which aren't essential for Googlebot and offer your users a nice looking dynamic URL. If you are not able to figure out which parameters to remove, we'd advise you to serve us all the parameters in your dynamic URL and our system will figure out which ones do not matter. Hiding your parameters keeps us from analyzing your URLs properly and we won't be able to recognize the parameters as such, which could cause a loss of valuable information.

Following are some questions we thought you might have at this point.

Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That's our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems. If you transform your dynamic URL to make it look static you should be aware that we might not be able to interpret the information correctly in all cases. If you want to serve a static equivalent of your site, you might want to consider transforming the underlying content by serving a replacement which is truly static. One example would be to generate files for all the paths and make them accessible somewhere on your site. However, if you're using URL rewriting (rather than making a copy of the content) to produce static-looking URLs from a dynamic site, you could be doing harm rather than good. Feel free to serve us your standard dynamic URL and we will automatically find the parameters which are unnecessary.

...more

hi Dear djbaxter

Do u know any Google/yahoo sitemap like vbseo's sitemap ??

I need it so much :(

I will be so thankfull if u help me

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Originally Posted by UIQarena (Post 1754607)

hi Dear djbaxter

Do u know any Google/yahoo sitemap like vbseo's sitemap ??

I need it so much :(

I will be so thankfull if u help me

Yoiu can get the vBSEO sitemap add-on for free here at vBulletin.org. It works fine with the Zoints SEO package.

Quote:

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 1754731)

Yoiu can get the vBSEO sitemap add-on for free here at vBulletin.org. It works fine with the Zoints SEO package.

WoW thnx bro , n good luck.

I suggest to All members that who cant (or dont wanna) pay money for their vbulletin SEO : TO INSTALL THIS GR8 MOD, If u dont u will make a big mistake.

Special thnx to djbaxter ,who have made this mod alive again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by star88 (Post 1752838)

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much

What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

sorry but I have one more question plz

What should I do to insert something like attached screen shot to my Vbulletin footer ?(I have vbseo sitemap installed)

Thnx in advanced

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phaedrus (Post 1754905)

What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Probably. But in my case I use virtual domains on Go Daddy. So I need to add Rewritebase / in the .htaccess file. Now it works for me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phaedrus (Post 1754905)

What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Quote:

Originally Posted by star88 (Post 1755100)

Probably. But in my case I use virtual domains on Go Daddy. So I need to add Rewritebase / in the .htaccess file. Now it works for me.

It depends on how the server is configured. On some servers, you need to specify

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

so the entire set would look like this:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

If your server doesn't need it, it won't do any harm; if it does need it, it may not work (or won't work correctly) without those additions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by UIQarena (Post 1754973)

sorry but I have one more question plz

What should I do to insert something like attached screen shot to my Vbulletin footer ?(I have vbseo sitemap installed)

Thnx in advanced

That's a different add-on. See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194829

so i installed this with a 3.8.1 forum last night and the password forums are not able to be accessed

this was a bug in 2.2.2 and its still not fixed.
Any idea how to fix this?

Hope someone can help with an issue I have with the SEO.

It's been working flawlessly.
But my host has switched from Apache to LiteSpeed.

Since then I have been having Database errors like crazy. I have narrowed it down to the Zoints SEO. If I disable the SEO the Database errors go away. I can re enable and it will be fine for awhile. But DB errors will continue. More specifically, I can leave it enabled, just turn off the "Rewrite URLs" feature.

If I enable the mod_rewrite feature, then I get error 404.

Any IDeas?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mc0676 (Post 1731862)

I've a problem with the archive.

With the option:
- use Zoints Seo Archive
- use Archive as Sitemap
all in OFF
my original archive of vbulletin show only the categories and the forums but not the thread if i enter in a forum ...

U can see here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/archive/

Also I have the same identical problem of mc0676..... :confused:

Sorry for my English.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ComputerVitals (Post 1763248)

Don't use the htaccess form of rewrite.

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Originally Posted by amerelgen (Post 1763577)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Phaedrus (Post 1763570)

Don't use the htaccess form of rewrite.

If I use the 2nd option of rewrite, then I get database errors.

I'm wondering if anyone has good sucess on running this with Litespeed? It was working perfectly since vb 3.6. Just now I have the issues.

Edit:
My issue is solved. For some reason, I'm not sure why, I had to create a new .htaccess and put it in the forum directory. Placing the rewrite rules in the main htaccess in the root wouldn't work.

I just found a problem I'm wondering if anyone else has had this?

I tried to move a post just now. I copied the URL of the thread and tried to move the post to it but with the SEO friendly URLs it doesn't think I'm linking to a real post.

It tells me

Quote:

You have not specified a valid URL for the thread that you want to merge. Please check that the URL includes a valid threadid, "t=xxx" or postid, "p=xxx" (where xxx is a number), and is not a redirect.

How can I fix this?

I cant find in headinclude

Code:

<if condition="$show['threadinfo']">

< name="keywords" content="$threadinfo[title] $vboptions[keywords]" />

< name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />

<else />

<if condition="$show['foruminfo']">

< name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean] $vboptions[keywords]" />

< name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />

<else />

< name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />

< name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />

</if>

</if>

and this is my headinclude ;

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$stylevar[charset]" />

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $vboptions[templateversion]" />

<if condition="$show['threadinfo']">

<meta name="keywords" content="<if condition="$threadinfo['taglist']">$threadinfo[taglist], </if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />

<meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />

<else /><if condition="$show['foruminfo']">

<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean], $vboptions[keywords]" />

<meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />

<else />

<meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />

<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />

</if></if>



<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->

$style[css]

<if condition="is_browser('opera') AND !is_browser('opera', '8.0.1')">

<style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_opera8fix_css">

ul, ol { padding-$stylevar[left]:20px; }

</style>

</if>

<if condition="$show['editor_css']">

$editor_css

</if>

<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->



<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/connection/connection-min.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

var SESSIONURL = "$session[sessionurl_js]";

var SECURITYTOKEN = "$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]";

var IMGDIR_MISC = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]";

var vb_disable_ajax = parseInt("$vboptions[disable_ajax]", 10);

// -->

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>

<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script></if>



<if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']">

        <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2" />

        <if condition="$show['foruminfo'] OR $show['threadinfo']">

                <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - $foruminfo[title_clean] - RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" />

        </if>

</if>

how can I do this? :o

Is there a version for vb 3.7.x?

hi i want delet zoints seo but my links have html
i want redicte .html to Default links please halp

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Originally Posted by crippon (Post 1768298)

Is there a version for vb 3.7.x?

hey this should work on 3.7 let me know what happens!

sorry all that i havent been around work has been busy ok so ill get cracking on some more updates for you and see what we can do :D

I would appreciate a Sitemapgenerator for it, so u dont have to use the Archive for it..

When I turn on the setting to rewrite URLs and insert keywords (not with mod_rewrite) my users can't log in if they are using Internet Explorer 8. Is there a way to still do this? Will it work if I use the option that uses the mod_rewrite? Or am I the only one that has this problem? Thanks!

Ok so this is a old mod that has just been maintained so this is the first time i have heard of this problem,

what to say hmmmm,
well im working on a complete new system atm so i would at first recommend that you tell your users to delete explorer anyways FireFox is a much smaller and nicer anyways as IE is dieing out!

seconde like i rocomended above you should use the mod-rewrite selection if you can if not then im sorry there is nothing i can do right now!

Does it work with lighttpd or only with apache?

it should work with light http but if you get an error let me know!

When i click by seo options on save i get a internal server error ?

thanks..installed with ease..and nominated... how am i able to enable mod rewrite on my server?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dxlwebs (Post 1786779)

it should work with light http but if you get an error let me know!

ok... so it should work without any change?
In lighttpd there are not .htaccess files, but rewrite rules are in lighttpd.conf
I've just tried vbseo, but it doesn't work well on lighttpd!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sciax2 (Post 1787209)

ok... so it should work without any change?
In lighttpd there are not .htaccess files, but rewrite rules are in lighttpd.conf
I've just tried vbseo, but it doesn't work well on lighttpd!

from reading their website it does not work...

i need some help though...
i see on my who's online this...
Guest
Unknown Location
/forums/forumdisplay.php/-.html?rand=1239289923

Not all guests get this...is it becuz they have they're cookies disabled? and can it be fixed to tell them cookies have to be enabled?

also your template edits are outdated i believe becuz i had to do all the edits manually and i could find alot of what you said to search for...

Phrase Groups Available:

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Page Generation 0.01720 seconds Memory Usage 1,874KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
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Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (7)bbcode_code_printable (2)bbcode_php_printable (20)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (40)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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