Version: , by fastforward
Developer Last Online: Nov 2011
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 05-24-2001
Last Update: Never
Installs: 35
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For vB 2.0
This little hackette is a quick fix to allow search engine bots to spider your threads.
Although this will allow the bots to index every thread on your site, it will not make the threads 'search engine optimized'. They will see exactly what you see when you visit your site. It simply removes the CGI bits from the URL's which prevents most search engine bots from spidering more than one level deep.
If you want a hack that allows to fully customize how the thread will look to the search engine bot, you should look at Overgrows more complete hack here.
The advantage of this hack over Overgrows is that it does not require htaccess support which can have performance issues. This could also be seen as a disadvantage though as my hack requires that you have mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache Server, whereas Overgrows method should work with just about any web host out there.
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I just tried this hack on my v2.2.1 vb with both the .htaccess and httpd.conf methods. The forum urls look fine (ie http:/www.howardforums.com/f1/) however all the image links except the forum logo have stopped working. Any ideas?
This great hack desparately needs a update - I don't have a clue where to start on this! Could someone please wrap all this up in one new hack, and eliminate the confusion? It would definitely be appreciated by many people!
Originally posted by LanciaStratos This great hack desparately needs a update - I don't have a clue where to start on this! Could someone please wrap all this up in one new hack, and eliminate the confusion? It would definitely be appreciated by many people!
I intend to revisit this very shortly. I've finally started to prepare for upgrading my forums to 2.2.1. It will probably be a couple of weeks though.
Originally posted by fastforward
I intend to revisit this very shortly. I've finally started to prepare for upgrading my forums to 2.2.1. It will probably be a couple of weeks though.
Great!!! I can't wait - best of luck upgrading your forums!!!
Originally posted by Howard I just tried this hack on my v2.2.1 vb with both the .htaccess and httpd.conf methods. The forum urls look fine (ie http:/www.howardforums.com/f1/) however all the image links except the forum logo have stopped working. Any ideas?
read my solutions very early in this thread.. i have the hack installed for ages on 2.2.0 modified and it works like a charm
Originally posted by eva2000 read my solutions very early in this thread.. i have the hack installed for ages on 2.2.0 modified and it works like a charm
I think the issue is with multipage threads. My initial release only rewrote the first page of links.
The difficulty is not so much rewriting the links, it's maintaining the other options such as 'perpage' and sort order etc.
Originally posted by chaz7979 Doesnt google spider urls with ? now anyway?
You know, I've seen plenty of sites with a "?" in the URL, (some even with forums like phpBB), on Google and they got indexed just fine... Would someone care to explain this?
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12-31-2001, 11:22 AM
Would someone care to explain this?
