Teck - why the need to rename to archive.html? I have 20 Inktomi spiders in there now so don't want to interrupt anything.

Might do on vbHome. Mainly doing this for added content and links and not so worried that everything gets listed in Google...

I'm telling you what I did, only.
That doesn't mean you have to do the same like me...

Hey man, it's your hack so I just want to benefit from your skills. ;)

Woke up this morning to find all bots in the Archive - 30 googlebots doing their thing so me is a happy chappy. :D

Would just like to know the theory behind naming the archive with a .html extension.....

alright, I'm getting a parse error after I add the add_to_functions.php to admin/functions.php

Any ideas?

nevermind, a small little tiny typo

it seems bots arent interested in visiting my site ;)
still waiting for bot rush but only sometimes googlebot10-11-12 visits my board then leave ;) they cant find archive ... they try to "retrieve password" , "register" and similiar things and they go out after visiting main page of archive finally ...

do i have to put every php file as it listed by TECK to robots.txt ... or "removing all those and allowing bots to visit all those" is better ?

thanks

What's your board's URL? I would be happy to take a look for you. And yea, put all php pages in the robots.txt except index.php.

http://www.trojanforge.net
vbhome installed as home.php ,
via htaccess top of domain is home.php
board index is at : http://www.trojanforge.net/index.php
archive is at : http://www.trojanforge.net/archive/

and for robots.txt ; as they will get no permission notices they can browse other pages from that pages i think via top and bottom links ... ermm ;)

Hmmm, don't know why they aren't finding the archive. I would implement the mod that links the on/off gif to the corresponding forum in the archive.

I've installed this 3 times for clients with absolute ease ...... until today ;)

In the server when i go to rename the archive.txt and then when i rename it to 'archive' it disappears from the file list. And upon a refresh it reappears as the old filename. So i thought i'd try uploading it as just 'archive' and not archive.txt and then in the ftp log thingy it says:

I don't know what to do or how to fix it :(

Regards

- miSt