vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! Get your posts listed @ google

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[high]HOW GOOD DOES THIS HACK WORK??? >>> [/high]Over 29,000 pages spidered since January 1st!!!!!!! Visit http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+SkuZZy+Xenon to see all the pages this script has helped get spidered into google!

Sub-Forums have been added!

Final Version Released - February 10th

I added sub-forums in this final version, one of the most requested features to be added... but, sad to say... this will be the final version. I never got a chance to add some of the cool features I said, but I feel this archive has served it's purpose and hopefully will continue to do so for all the die hard users who stick with vb 2.2.9. I decided to make this the final version because vb3 is coming out soon and I think this archive is the best archive currently out. Sure, there are more flashy ones, but this one gets the job done and gets results. Hopefully this hack will live on for a while.
Edit by Xenon: Whenever there is a problem, i'll take a look at it, and perhaps add a feature or two

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_Rewrite. If you don't have mod_Rewrite, you can't use the scripts (sorry).

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demos

To view a demo of this script, visit some of the "live" demos at the following sites:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archives
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/
http://www.truecountry.com/forums/history/
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/index.php
http://www.pimprig.com/forums/archive/
http://www.jokersrewards.com/forum/history/
http://board.midibuddy.net/archive2/
http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/forums/archive/
http://www.macfora.com/forums/archive/
http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/
http://www.codewebs.com/forums/archive/
http://www.lcdmod.com/forums/archive/
http://www.source-forums.org/vB/archive/
http://www.subduck.com/history/
http://www.thesistersthree.com/archive/
http://www.a51forums.com/archive/
http://www.yes-its-free.com/easyarchive/
http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive
http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/archive/
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/
http://www.gamesites200.com/archive/
http://www.allthingsmoto.com/archive
http://www.2spoemas.com/foros/archive/
http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 2.x
mod_mime installed
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - You will NEED mod_mime to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Credits

Biggest credit goes to Xenon who originally coded the scripts. He is the man! Also thanks to everyone who tested it out for me and kept bugging me about releasing it (when I was too lazy to).

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all we ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "_readme.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[John]

Help!

I get nothing but a blank page. And yes, all paths are correct - trust me!

Mod_mime is installed, on Apache, PHP 4.2.3

What do I do now?

[TECK]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


Not everything google says is true. Perhaps they CAN spider javascript, but they don't.

I doubt they will post something that could affect their solid reputation.

[John]

Also: when I upload .htaccess, it says the transfer was successful, but then I can't view it on the server. I wonder if it's there?

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by TECK

I doubt they will post something that could affect their solid reputation.

Believe it or not, google isn't perfect. Yes, most of what they say is true, but still limited. Tbhey say they can spider PHP, so why don't they spider vbulletin then? Or thousands of other PHP scripts? Because google doesn't like the URL's that some of them use, they are too complex or google doesn't like the session hash, or many other reasons. Same thing goes with javascript. Google understands a VERY LIMITED amount of javascript. Google would be stupid to spider javascript, as it can cause so many problems and also manipulate googlebot into a loop. This is why websites put text links inside javascript when they don't want them to count as a link in google, cause they know google won't touch javascript. It's standard practice.

[John]

*cries*

[DrkFusion]

LMAO

Tecks archive is pretty spiffy, I now have a total of 3 archives running lol...Googles gotta gotta do 1 of them.

[John]

Ok, fixed - I feel like a complete idiot for posting my cries of help. I needed to use

chdir("..");
require("./global");

instead of the path to the global file.

/me feels like a retard

[TECK]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


Believe it or not, google isn't perfect. Yes, most of what they say is true, but still limited. Tbhey say they can spider PHP, so why don't they spider vbulletin then? Or thousands of other PHP scripts? Because google doesn't like the URL's that some of them use, they are too complex or google doesn't like the session hash, or many other reasons. Same thing goes with javascript. Google understands a VERY LIMITED amount of javascript. Google would be stupid to spider javascript, as it can cause so many problems and also manipulate googlebot into a loop. This is why websites put text links inside javascript when they don't want them to count as a link in google, cause they know google won't touch javascript. It's standard practice.

Please make 2 files: test.php and test.js
Include some code to display a readable text in each file, submit them to Google then let me know if they are indexed.

Google indexes all files that have an text readable output ONLY, as mentioned onto my GOOGLE FACTS, few posts above.

Before I made my own Archive system (almost identical to VB3 one), I did a research on several search engines, in order to optimize my code properly and avoid any Cloacking techniques.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by TECK

Please make 2 files: test.php and test.js
Include some code to display a readable text in each file, submit them to Google then let me know if they are indexed.

Google indexes all files that have an text readable output ONLY, as mentioned onto my GOOGLE FACTS, few posts above.

Before I made my own Archive system (almost identical to VB3 one), I did a research on several search engines, in order to optimize my code properly and avoid any Cloacking techniques.

I said above that google will spider some javascript. If you make a .js file with plain text or whatever then maybe google will spider it. But i'm talking about javascript embedded within' .html or .php files. For instance, for the popups to work, you put:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" SRC="http://view.popupsponsor.com/media/lx.js?a_id=10729&creative_type=1"></SCRIPT>

in your <head> tags. Google will NOT read this when it views the html page. It will see the javascript but it will ignore anything in between the <script> tags. In other words, it won't open the url http://view.popupsponsor.com/media/l...reative_type=1 ... therefore, putting popup windows won't effect google's spiderings, which was the original point. I'm sure google might spider some javascript or .js files, but not the types I use.

[TECK]

Ahaaaa, I got your point now.
You are totally right about those URL's. But that's not the case for vBulletin, right? If I understood correctly he was referring to the pm popup...
I might be wrong, but about those URL's listed above, you definitely don't want them, as you said.