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.

[SkuZZy]

I use popups on my archive and i'm making quite a bit of money from it. Have a lost some potential members because of them? Most definately. I never have liked popups, but I do get a bit tired of everyone telling me to remove them. My main forums have no banner ads, no pop up windows and no advertising what-so-ever. The archive has popups. So what, people join the forums and they are all gone. If someone sees the popups and closes the site because of them, well, they just made me $0.008. Sure, i'd like more members, but tons of members doesn't do any good when you don't have enough money to pay for hosting. If others can run sites without popup windows, then kudos to them... but my site is gaming related and a forum, and no advertising company will accept me. Furthermore, gaming advertising sells for virtually nothing, therefore, i'm left with popups or selling my site :/

Just explaining why I use popups. If others don't want to use them, I understand and if they offend you in anyway, then please, don't visit my archive

[cklaszlo]

I didn't mean to offend you. I was really curious as to trying to get a handle on ratios of people coming to a live forum via the archive. And if pop-ups on archive pages were distracted people and made them not want to sign up.

SkuZZy, PM or email me. I might be able to host your site. It's the least I can do for you since because of your hack our site is getting tons of traffic and we are listed to the max (lol) in Google.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by cklaszlo
I didn't mean to offend you. I was really curious as to trying to get a handle on ratios of people coming to a live forum via the archive. And if pop-ups on archive pages were distracted people and made them not want to sign up.

SkuZZy, PM or email me. I might be able to host your site. It's the least I can do for you since because of your hack our site is getting tons of traffic and we are listed to the max (lol) in Google.

I wasn't offended, that was mainly directed towards xenon though I just wish people would stop telling other people what to do. It's like that hack Teck released, the pop-up windows for unregistered members. People spammed the thread with stuff about it being unethical and how you force your members to sign up and blah blah blah. Why can't people just mind their own business. Not saying xenon said anything wrong... maybe i'm just a little quick to pull the trigger this morning

Thanks for the offer on hosting, but battleforums does take alot of resources and we just moved hosts 3 days ago. My hosting actually doesn't cost that much (I make it seem worse than it is). But battleforums does use alot of resources, getting about 12,000 unique visitors (thanks google), 100,000 page views & 700,000 hits per day it's using about 65GB of bandwidth a month using GZIP and it's taking up alot of load on my current server... so I would not expect anyone to host it for free, but thanks for the offer

SkuZZy

[SkuZZy]

By the way, you do have an insane amount of pages in google! Over 8000 listed. Good job - How much traffic does your site get per day?

[cklaszlo]

I have 4 servers colo'd at my friends ISP. So if it becomes an issue for you let me know.

ThrillNetwork.com transfers over 85 gigs. We do 150,000 unique visitors per month. With over 1.7 mil page views. And we don't make any money!!! lol. Our big problem is stickyness. We are working very hard on that now. Building better content and easier navigation. Getting rid of pop-ups has helped with this. Also going ad free on the Index page of the main site.

How do we find the actual amount of Pages listed in Google? Do you think you might be able to help with our other Coaster/Park Database archive?

[Xenon]

@Skuzzy: i really understand your decicions why to use popus.
My post was never meant to offend anyone of you, i just answered cklaszlo's question what i think about the popups.

It's always the admins decision wether to use popups or not.
In my personal opinion i don't like em and close most of the sites immediately when i saw popups, but there are others who don't

I just wanted to show cklaszlo the other side of the sword

[Smoothie]

@Skuzzy-

This hack really screws up the who's online. A possible fix? I added FireFly's add who's online from the admin cp, but it won't work with these archive .html files.

[Destee]

it seems everyone is getting indexed but me ...

am i not being patient enough? i had the hack installed on 01/10

site:destee.com archive

i had Overgrow's or Fastforward's hack installed at:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archive

but replaced it with Teck's hack tonight

my Skuzzy hack is at http://www.destee.com/forums/archives

::::::sigh:::::: i've installed them all ... :cry:



Destee

[Javazoid]

same. i want to join in on the party! my index is at wcgateway.com/forums/archive and i belive im the only one that has even seen it. i submitted the url "http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive" to google but i have not been index. help me and destee out!

[Xenon]

@Javazoid: from what i can see you don't have a link to the archive on your forumhome.

Spiders can just index reachable sites...
if it's a 1x1 pixel link it will be considered as urlcloaking and won't work for google for example.

i've changed my footer template from a 1x1 image to a small textlink and the ammount of searchengines rises a lot..