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.

[Rand M]

Thanks for a great hack SkuZZy... installed and running

http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/archive/

One more for your list!

[FlyBoy73]

SkuZZy,
Thank you so much for a great hack and all your personal help installing it. I can't wait for the dance..
Please feel free to add me to the list also if you would like.
Thanks,
David

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Ember
You can change http://a51gaming.madsims.net/forum/archive

to

www.a51forums.com/archive

I am just uploading it now Thought I should notify you of the change!

Congrats on the domain name!!! I updated your URL. I also added 3 other new URL's to the list If anyone has an archive not on the list and wants to be added, PM me. Never can have too many demos

[Guidster]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


Congrats on the domain name!!! I updated your URL. I also added 3 other new URL's to the list If anyone has an archive not on the list and wants to be added, PM me. Never can have too many demos

You can add mine if you like:

www.allthingsmoto.com/archive

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Guidster


You can add mine if you like:

www.allthingsmoto.com/archive

Added sir

[smestas]

SkuZZy,

I was having problems with v2 and a blank page but I just installed the new script v2.3 and it works great.

Thanks!

[SkuZZy]

Google is dancing! For those of you who installed this hack in early to mid-janary, check to see if google spidered your pages. There is a simple way to check:

1. Go to http://www2.google.com (notice the www2).

2. Type in: site:www.yoursite.com yoursite. (So for instance, I would type in "site:www.battleforums.com battleforums")

3. Check to see how many pages are listed. I notice some sites have alot of pages listed. Thrillnetwork has over 8000 pages indexed for example (not all of them from the archive).

BE SURE TO POST YOU RESULTS!

[SkuZZy]

Some interesting statistcs, for those who doubt the power of this hack. Over 29,000 archive pages have been spidered in the first month alone! Search for Archive SkuZZy Xenon in google and see the results!

http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+SkuZZy+Xenon

[floridaideal]

Hi Skuzzy, I just added my link to the index on the site and also submitted it to Google.

Do you think I will get a chance of spidering? or is it too late?

By the way do you think my link is ok on my index page http://www.top-forums.com (its right at the bottom of the page)

Also the link to the http://www.top-forums.com/forum/archives/

Does that look ok to you guys? Thanks all this is a great hack, I could not get vbspider to spider on google so I hope this one works better for me.

Thanks

Stuart

[Guidster]

Originally posted by SkuZZy
The dance is usually at the end of the month, often between the 25th and 30th and the "major crawl" happens 5 days after the dance BEGINS (approximately). So if the dance started on January 28th, the major crawl would probaly begin around the 3rd.

I saw the first deep crawl last evening into my archive. It would appear that they have been dancing all week and have begun the deep spidering.