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Tigerdude · #1 05-30-2003, 02:23 AM

There seems to be two popular hacks to make the forums "spider friendly".

vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! by skuzzy
and
vbArchive - Search Engine Indexer for vBulletin

Can anyone give me the pros or cons of each one?

Thanks.

filburt1 · #2 05-30-2003, 02:25 AM

There's also mine; see my profile.

Xenon · #3 05-30-2003, 01:19 PM

vb easy archive by skuzzy and myself:
pro: no unneeded stuff
does what it should (indexing threads)
con: it's mainly plain text, not nice to view, so you shouldn't browse it itself

vbArchive by TECK
pro: Nice design, can be used to browse threads without the normal board.
con: well, as for design issues, a lot of useless code for spidering is on the pages, so more bandwidth is needed....

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