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.

[Crinos]

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html

As far as I know, meta tags are not given as high a priority as it once been given ... it's still all about relevancy ... there is no unifying rule that covers all search engines

[TECK]

Originally posted by Crinos
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html

As far as I know, meta tags are not given as high a priority as it once been given ... it's still all about relevancy ... there is no unifying rule that covers all search engines

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/web.../features.html

[SkuZZy]

meta tags dont matter in google, they are used very rarely. They are mainly only used for incomplete spidering sessions by google. Im not saying meta tags arent important for other search engines, but they dont matter much in google.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by TECK
Stefan, from my experience with search engines (and I did searched a lot), indexes will drop your site for the following reasons:
1. no unique meta tags for each page (most important)
2. popups or any other external links, that direct your crawler outside the site
3. deprecated html code

Now, others will argue with me and tell me: "heh my archive is listed..."
Let me know for how long. I guarantee you that by the end of the month your links are dropped.
The best way to test your links is to go to Google and search for:
site:yoursite.com archive

So, I strongly recommend you Stefan to update your code, related to those issues I mentioned above, orelse the archive pages will NOT be indexed.
vBulletin.org decided to install my archive because of "no. 1 reason", listed above.

I know that "some" people (same who rated 1 my archive) will consider this as "spam" or "advertising" my own code... believe what you want, I simply try to help.
Feel free to read more here to see that what I say is true:
http://www.searchengineforums.com/

I'm not going to bother trying to change your mind anymore, but you are wrong TECK and I will prove that to you. Google doesn't kick because of lack of unique meta tags. That is the biggest joke i've ever heard. And #2 is even more rediculous. Guess what, I use 3 popups on my archive and an exit window and I get over 7,000 uniques a day from google, just from this archive. Please don't spread these kind of remarks around, you are misunderstanding how google works. If you don't believe me, then post what you just posted below at SearchEngineForums (which you seem to preach) and they will tell you that you are wrong also. Google doesn't even open javascript files, so how would they know it contains a popup window? As far as #3 goes, there is no proof that google drops old pages that haven't been updated, but i'm sure that they will at some time. That is irrelevant anyways.

You seem to doubt the stuff I say teck, and i'm not too sure why. I've been working on search engines for over 2 years and i've been hired by some of Canada's top companies to search engine optimize their sites for them. My archive isn't as pretty as yours, but it works and I prefer it over yours for a few reasons. First off, the archive is meant for one purpous... to get your posts spidered, not to have users surf on! My archive is dull and has a nice big link pointing to the original thread. Yes, your archive is nice... so nice that most people will probably end up surfing it and never actually visiting the real forum and signing up. This isn't what I want, I want users to get to my forum.

As far as multiple pages, why does it matter? Listen. No one is going to be visiting the actual "index" of threads, only google. That is fine though, because each month it will continue to spider your site, so all your new threads will get added. I know what I am talking about, my forums have 1200+ threads and I continue to get 3000 pages added to google monthly. I have 5500 pages with them now and 3 months ago I had only about 10. Now, people coming from google will go directly to the post, so they wont have to see "50,000 threads" as you so called it. However, you are right, some larger forums that have forums with 10,000 or more threads in a single forums should not use my hack, they should use yours, otherwise alot of their current threads wouldn't get spidered.

As far as what you are saying being true, teck... man... you need some serious lessons. I don't know what threads you were reading over at searchengineforums, but I imagine you chose to read only the ones that would confirm your own opinions. I also urge anyone here to go surf around searchengineforums and you will see that my hack isn't "the devil" that teck makes it out to be. Is teck's hack better than mine? If you want a flashy archive and want your visitors surfing your archive (rather than your forum) then I suggest you go with his. I also suggest you use his if you have an overly large forum with several tens of thousands of threads. But for all the smaller forums out there, I guarentee you will get better results with my hack than teck's. Everything in mine is optimized, where as teck's archive has many small things that will hurt him in the search engine. For instance, on posts in your archive teck... you list the title of the forum first, then the title of the thread. Don't you know that the title is the most important part in google? And google only counts the first 59 characters of the title. anything after that is wasted space. So by putting the title first, you are wasting alot of characters.

There are many other small thinggs like that in teck's archive, but he can figure them out for himself. The bottom line is though, that my forum is recieving 7,000 unique hits from google per day. If you want to see proof, then go to my stats tracker, http://extremetracking.com/open?login=bforums - The proof is in the pudding. So teck, where are your results? Is your archive bringing you over 7,000 uniques a day from google?

- SkuZZy

[Smoothie]

google seems to love this script on my site;
Results 1 - 10 of about 6,510. Search took 0.21 seconds.

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by Smoothie
google seems to love this script on my site;
Results 1 - 10 of about 6,510. Search took 0.21 seconds.

That's great smoothie. Have you noticed a traffic increase?

[Smoothie]

Yes I have! Not to mention 350 new members in the month of January.

[floridaideal]

Hi, I seem to have a problem being spidered

I have not had a link on Google yet although looking at the cashed index page that Google has recently stored the text link I put at the bottom of my page its clearly visable and works fine.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...top-forums.com

Google has spidered the first archive link I made that was another hack (not that it spidered all the pages just the link).

Will I have to wait or is there a problem?

Anyone got any ideas please?

Thanks

Stuart

[SkuZZy]

Google has probably spidered your archive already. Unfortunately, your pages won't be added right away. If you put your archive up after the 18th of January (which you must have) then your pages won't be added to google until next month's update, which will be around mid-late Febuary.

SkuZZy

Originally posted by floridaideal
Hi, I seem to have a problem being spidered

I have not had a link on Google yet although looking at the cashed index page that Google has recently stored the text link I put at the bottom of my page its clearly visable and works fine.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...top-forums.com

Google has spidered the first archive link I made that was another hack (not that it spidered all the pages just the link).

Will I have to wait or is there a problem?

Anyone got any ideas please?

Thanks

Stuart

[TECK]

Originally posted by SkuZZy


I'm not going to bother trying to change your mind anymore, but you are wrong TECK....

- SkuZZy

Is obvious you are in the competition of having people installing your hack, I was expecting to see a reaction like that from you.
You are the person who's wrong thinking that I care people will install your hack and not mines, heh... is funny.

Is up to them what script they like better, not to you or me.
To prove you how much I care about this, I'm going to add a link to your archive in my first post so people can have an alternative, before they install my script.