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Originally Posted by Ian Cunningham

You got it
I've made some progress today, although mainly by using a massive htaccess! I'm only adding a couple of articles per week so I might just do it manually.

Hi, Ian. If you want an easy way to archive your article files, and if you don't get many contributions like I do, here's what I did,
I borrowed the existing vbulletin archive .css file and made up some blank templates with my meta tags etc. I then pasted each article as a html 'text only' into each template, saved it with the title name of the article and the html file name (example - 'a-25.html' ). I then upload in to a folder (forum/archives), made up a index page with links to the categorys etc. Once the blank templates are made up, it only took me about five minutes to create the text only html and the added on links in the category pages. Best way is to see for yourself.
1 - http://shipmodeling.net/forum/archives/index.html
2 - (one of my categories) - http://shipmodeling.net/forum/archives/c-1.html
3- one of the articles - http://shipmodeling.net/forum/archives/a-34.html
Not on the fly like the regular vbull archiving, but for the articles section with not many contributions, or infrequent ones, works very nicely. Two days ago Yahoo was spidering my vbulletin archives like mad. I had put a link to the articles archive on the vbulletin archive index page, and lo and behold, the Yahoo spider followed the articles archive links, and stated to spider them.
John