Board Optimization - SEO YouTube and Google Videos

This mod was inspired by by Embed XHTML valid YouTube and Google Video into your posts but this mod contains some bugs and isn't complete so I then needed to modify it and decided to do it really well and aply SEO technology to it.

This mod will enable your users to publish YouTube or Google videos on your forum. It's managable via the adminpanel and the script will automaticly download the titles of the videos from YouTube or Google Video and store it in the database so it will get the videos indexed verry well and it's fast.

Some of the features:

• Custom tagnames, manageable from the adminpanel
• Automatic Video Title retrieval, with optional support for Lib Curl and user-simulated video title retrieval
• Custom editor icons, managable from the adminpanel
• Template based Google or YouTube video output
• Support for local Google Video servers, to make your site local
• Phrases for all text so it has support for multi-lingual forums
• Optional, extend all links within the video with rel="nofollow", customizable seperately for YouTube or Google Video
• Custom Video titles via tag option ([googlevideo="Video Title"]...[/googlevideo])
• SEO Video Index (demo)
• SEO Video Bar (demo)
• Ability to configure usergroups that have access to delete videos.

Instalation:

1. Import the XML product
2. Upload the attached icon images (or use your own)
   • Default is:
     • /images/editor/google.gif
     • /images/editor/youtube.gif
3. Open htaccess.txt, configure it (replace yourdomain with your domain), save it as .htaccess and upload it to the root of your forum
4. Run the included installer
   • The installer will also upgrade previous instalations
   • Bug: when you run the installer more then once, multiple of the same indexes are created. I haven't found a way yet to prevent this. I have posted some messages on MySQL forums to find an answere and will then upgrade the installer. For now it is adviced to run the installer just once and for upgrades it is adviced to check the PREFIXseovideos table after upgrading to see if there are any duplicate indexes configured to remove them if needed.
5. To install the Videobar anywhere on the forum use the folowing code:
   • PHP Code:

     <!-- SEO Videos Index Bar --> 


Done.

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Screenshots:





Update: 18 februari 2007 (latest files from www.papegaaienforum.nl where this mod works very well).

[ecollier12012]

Quick Update.

I noticed that if I use the "Post Reply" button it works.

But if I use the quick reply - goto advanced - I dont see the option to insert video.


This one works - Post Reply Button
http://www.pbvids.com/forum/newreply...ote=1&p=554871

This one does not work - not option to insert the video -the google & youtube icons are missing.
http://www.pbvids.com/forum/newreply...treply&t=37364

[ecollier12012]

FYI - I found another bug...

My video bar only displayed "3" out of the "4" videos.....

I changed......
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="160" height="130" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="{video}">
<param name="movie" value="{video_1}" />

To

<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="160" height="130" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="{video_1}">
<param name="movie" value="{video_1}" />

Works now...

[MissKalunji]

i don't get the point of this mod...anyone care to explain?

[KipLarson]

Does this work with vBSEO? And has anyone tested it in vB 3.65?

Looking at the .htaccess file you offered for download, it seems as though perhaps I could put some of the Rewrite Rules into the Custom Rewrite Rules section in the vBSEO control panel?

If someone here has installed this that uses vBSEO I'd love to hear from you (or from the plugin author )

[Aeolian_X]

I installed it and I use vBSEO. I can't say that it works, because I see nothing on the videos.html page. The videos work in the forums, but that's about it.

To add this .htaccess to your existing one, just copy and paste it under the vBSEO stuff. Make sure the settings are the same as the vBSEO, or you'll get errors.

That's about all I can do for you. This mod needs to be marked as UNsupported!

[KipLarson]

Originally Posted by Aeolian_X

I installed it and I use vBSEO. I can't say that it works, because I see nothing on the videos.html page. The videos work in the forums, but that's about it.

To add this .htaccess to your existing one, just copy and paste it under the vBSEO stuff. Make sure the settings are the same as the vBSEO, or you'll get errors.

That's about all I can do for you. This mod needs to be marked as UNsupported!

Yah, I was thinking that I'd just save a copy of my .htaccess before I made any changes. Thanks for the tips. I might just try this plugin, what do you think?

[cdorka]

how do i install the php file?

in admincp or where?

[ecollier12012]

I am also running VBSEO also and could not get the video.html file to work but I found a workaround....

Edit the template.... seovideos_index_videobar

Near the bottom Change......

<tr><td colspan="4" align="center" class="tfoot"><a href="videos.html">$vbphrase[seo_videos_show_video_index]</a></tr>


To

<tr><td colspan="4" align="center" class="tfoot"><a href="forum/index.php?videos=1">$vbphrase[seo_videos_show_video_index]</a></tr>

This will change the link on the video navbar from videos.html to page that works.

Note: Your forum path may be different...

You can see an example here
http://http://www.pbvids.com/

[donaldgkimball]

Excuse my limited knowledge about this hack, but how can I place my URL's in the .htaccess file

My forums are located differently.
One is in a subfolder www.mydomain.com/forum
and the other is in a subdomain http://forum.mydomain.com

What edits do I need to make in htaccess for both cases.
Thanks.

[sflmkv]

I installed it and just 2 small questions....
1)It's not getting the titles I'm using the latest VB
2)It won't show up in the editor and I have tried everything?