Everything works except this ->
http://www.mydomain.com//forumdisplay/f-2.html

You see the double // ?
Everything still works but this is wrong and I don't know how the crawlers react on this.

How can I fix this?
Thank you!

Hi TECK.
I had actually skipped over those bits :nervous:, but have been through 1-3 now, thankyou.
Only one small problem, $bburl doesn't seem to be set for me in index.php and forumdisplay.php. Whenever it's used, it just doesn't work.

If you go to my Forum Homepage and look at the links on the Forum Icons, it's not set correctly, despite using the exact code from your templates.

$bburl is set in my admin panel to:
I could set this manually in the code, but shouldn't need to. Any ideas?

<EdiT>
Looks like Domenico is having the same problem judging by his // (double slash).

I updated the code, vBulletin.org site parsed the replacement code I had there...
I see that your icons don't have a link now? You can also use only:It will still work fine.
Try it again and let me know, first with $bburl/forumdisplay/f-... but leave it so I can see it with my own eyes.

Hi, sorry, I'm working on a different template set, and forgot to link to it. Where I'm working is at: http://www.xaprief.com/forums/index.php?styleid=4

I'll have another look now, cheers...



Ok. I used the code you suggested, just:
And it works great. Cheers :)

Does anyone know the dates of google dances? I had one google spider visit my forum yesterday but it did not pick up the link to my archive : \
I have the link to my archive visible but in my footer. Inktomi Slurp picked up on the link and was all over my archive forums but not Google. Any ideas?

Read the first post, is explained in the email from Google tech support. Be patient. :)

Make SURE you leave the name in the alt="...Archive..." tag!!!
You have no idea how IMPORTANT this is. I didn't put it there for fun.
Search engines pick links ONLY from graphics that have no empty alt="" tags.

Your second method to show online locations

It shows the viewing archive thread blahblah

But when you hover over blahblah it doesn't have the archive/ in the link! (uhoh) if you need to test, you can use my test/test account

the case in the method 2 for online.php has

case 'archiveforumdisplay.php':

are those correct?

Ah, sorry.
I didn't use your full template replacement codes, because my templates are different to default ones, and I didn't see those bits. I'll add them now :)

I'd also just like to say a big thankyou to you TECK.
You've offered exemplary, and quite unrivalled, support for this hack. Not only fixing people's posted problems, but also checking their installations for them (ie, me!).

Hats off to you sir.

Thanks big guy. Well I want to make sure everyone is happy, is important to me.
Plus, people know me for writing decent code, that performs well in vBulletin, so I don't want to break this little reputation I have... :D
Is ok, is supposed to be like that. The beauty of my script compared to others is that it will not add another subfolder to the actual /archive folder.
The crawler will think that you placed all .html "forum thread" files into a new folder called /forumdisplay.
Let's take an example Floris. This is what I use:
---[forum < your normal forum
------[archive < forcetyped archive main page folder
------[forumdisplay < all subforums and thread titles are listed here
------[showthread < all posts are listed here

Instead of:
---[forum
------[archive
---------[forumdisplay
---------[showthread

Is proven that search engines index faster if you have your subfolders closer to the root. That's why I used this technique.
Cool huh? :)Yes, the code is correct, don't panic. ;)

Nice work Teck!

Is there any chance that you'll provide the template installations in a text file so that it can be manually installed too?

Hi Logician,
Thanks for the comments. To install manually the templates, simply look in vbarchive.php file, they are at the top.
Copy and paste the template title/content.

Why do you want to add them as custom templates? The installer will create a "Archive Templates" group and set your templates for each style you have on your board. It will save you time and is easier, overall, using the installer...

No big deal.. I usually prefer to work manually instead of using install scripts, that's why I asked. Nevermind, I installed it to a test board and acquired the templates from there.. ;)

I have installed it to my board and it's working very well. I have made some modifications&translations and still some work to do but as far as I can see, I can safely say that it's coded very well in every terms.. Very good work! :glasses:

Btw. I like smilies be parsed so coded a small add-on and it's doing well. Here it is, in case other people also want to parse smilies in archive driven pages:

sorry.. updated..

Version 1.3 released. :)

I will upgrade later today :)

I wonder who is rating this thread with low scores? :rolleyes:

The hack is advanced and well written and FREE. It does not have any problems as far as I can see. It adds a very valuable asset to our boards. The thread is also useful to give a lot of information about search engine indexing. Hack author is giving support for every single posts.

So why low rating?!?

It's a shame..

It gets 5 stars from me..

Email received, and quickly upgraded to v1.3.
Thanks again for the great hack.

Hwu

Cool upgrade! I will do the upgrade tonight. :)
Thanks Teck...

I'll upgrade tonight :)

Excellent job TECK :)

- miSt

Updated to 1.3


Issue #1:
The Whois Online page on my forum displayes the Viewing Archive Main Page part like this: http://creations.nl/forum/archive/ which is correct, but if a user goes 'deeper (Viewing Archive Forum The Lounge)', like into a forum, or a thread, then it shows like: http://creations.nl/forumdisplay/f-5.html and that isn't correct, it is missing the forum/ part in the url.

Issue #2:
The Archive Index page on my forum displayes the frontpage with Threads: x Posts: y - which is correct. But not the link it has. The forum category link is correct and works, but the threads/posts has the same link, just without the 'forum/' part in the url (like in issue 1 too).


I noticed there are some places where it doesn't say $bburl but $archiveurl .. where can I change $archiveurl ?

[update]
I have modified the archive_forumtitle template by replacing $archiveurl with $bburl and this solved issue #2. (Not sure about issue #1, since that is related to the online.php file I guess.

Floris, I just went to your forums and it displays everything the way it supposed to be. I already answered to you earlier, it's supposed to be like this. :)
About the second issue, it was my mistake, sorry. I updated the file now and replaced the $archiveurl (2 times) with $bburl.
I was tired and pasted the code from my actual archive without checking... sorry.

The screenshot does show the link nice,
but..

What I wrote was : hover your mouse over the link, it doesn't show creations.nl/forum/ .. but only creations.nl/ .. (see your status bar).


By the way, I just setup a subdomain to link to the archive :)

http://archive.creations.nl/ - another url to submit to the search engines! :)

Ya, it's supposed to be like this Floris. :)
Read more here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...597#post346597

Also, when you have time, post a tutorial on how you edited the forums to use the cached URL like the one you listed above.
Users will like this feature.

Edit: Sorry, I figured out what you mean, I will look at the online.php code now...

By the way:
I entered: site:creations.nl archive and it returned:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,030. Search took 0.02 seconds

Wee :)

The vB Stats page also shows that the links are all search engines :)

Link Queue: [search.yahoo.com] [www.google.com] [www.google.nl] [uk.search.yahoo.com] [www.vbulletin.com] [aolsearch.aol.com] [www.google.co.uk] [www.google.com.ar] [www.google.fr] [search.netscape.com] [www.google.ca] [www.vbulletin.org] [www.google.lt] [msxml.excite.com] [www.google.de] [srd.yahoo.com] [www.yahoo.com] [aolsearch.aol.co.uk] [www.google.fi] [www.google.it] [www.google.co.il] [search.virgilio.it] [www.google.ie] [www.ifind.freeserve.com] [www.google.com.au] [search.earthlink.net] [sg.google.yahoo.com] [www.google.co.kr] [www.google.pl] [www.goggle.it] [au.google.yahoo.com] [zoek.vinden.nl] [ca.google.yahoo.com] [www.hotbot.com] [fr.search.yahoo.com] [beta.jelsoft.com] [search.metacrawler.com] [www.google.be] [pesquisa.sapo.pt]

Wee2 :)

Yeah, ok :D hehe
[high]* Floris hits nakkid on the head.
[/high]

cached? You mean the sub-domain ? I just added that through cpanel with a redirection to the forum/archive

Ok I fixed the online.php issue. Just toss the "$bburl/" part in the 3 instances that appears ($bburl/archive/..., $bburl/forumdisplay/... and $bburl/showthread/...).

Who's nakkid? ;)
It shows you are a vB.org veteran... :D

I changed the $bburl to the real url which it should have (who cares about hard coded hehe)

I just swapped the $archiveurl to $bburl in the archive_forumtitle template, and it's fine now. :)

Gonna look at online.php now.

heh, guess that makes me vetran too :P

Did you make a mistake with the file upload? looks like 1.2 still.

Did you read the first post?

I AM SEXY

Huh? I think you are referring to your stats? They are pretty solid...
You basically have every single damn search engine listed, LOL.

Edit: overgrow installed the archive... :)
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/archive/

[high]* djr installed!
[/high]

A VERY BIG thank you Teck!

You can submit my archive to your links if you want:
http://archief.pdaclub.nl

(hopefully) small problem. We use a external stylesheet for our site (and also on the forums), but now it lists this in online.php:
This happens for every location. It just appends style.css to it.
Any info how to fix that?

- djr

the blasted temp files....I really didn't think would matter. You wrote for a reason tho..

Today I noticed some big visites allll over the day, turned out to be 'inktomisearch.com' - so that wasn't so bad :P hehe. This hack is starting to pay off. At least it works. Results within a month from 10 search engines +

I am glad I could add this to vbulletin 2 before switching to vbulletin 3 where this is a default feature.

Open the archive template and replace the style.css file with the actual content and make sure it doesn't link to images. Then try again (note that it will only show up corrected for newly visits due to cookie timeout)