Board Optimization - SEO YouTube and Google Videos

This mod was inspired by by Embed XHTML valid YouTube and Google Video into your posts but this mod contains some bugs and isn't complete so I then needed to modify it and decided to do it really well and aply SEO technology to it.

This mod will enable your users to publish YouTube or Google videos on your forum. It's managable via the adminpanel and the script will automaticly download the titles of the videos from YouTube or Google Video and store it in the database so it will get the videos indexed verry well and it's fast.

Some of the features:

• Custom tagnames, manageable from the adminpanel
• Automatic Video Title retrieval, with optional support for Lib Curl and user-simulated video title retrieval
• Custom editor icons, managable from the adminpanel
• Template based Google or YouTube video output
• Support for local Google Video servers, to make your site local
• Phrases for all text so it has support for multi-lingual forums
• Optional, extend all links within the video with rel="nofollow", customizable seperately for YouTube or Google Video
• Custom Video titles via tag option ([googlevideo="Video Title"]...[/googlevideo])
• SEO Video Index (demo)
• SEO Video Bar (demo)
• Ability to configure usergroups that have access to delete videos.

Instalation:

1. Import the XML product
2. Upload the attached icon images (or use your own)
   • Default is:
     • /images/editor/google.gif
     • /images/editor/youtube.gif
3. Open htaccess.txt, configure it (replace yourdomain with your domain), save it as .htaccess and upload it to the root of your forum
4. Run the included installer
   • The installer will also upgrade previous instalations
   • Bug: when you run the installer more then once, multiple of the same indexes are created. I haven't found a way yet to prevent this. I have posted some messages on MySQL forums to find an answere and will then upgrade the installer. For now it is adviced to run the installer just once and for upgrades it is adviced to check the PREFIXseovideos table after upgrading to see if there are any duplicate indexes configured to remove them if needed.
5. To install the Videobar anywhere on the forum use the folowing code:
   • PHP Code:

     <!-- SEO Videos Index Bar --> 


Done.

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Screenshots:





Update: 18 februari 2007 (latest files from www.papegaaienforum.nl where this mod works very well).

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by InfoSpyware

I have the same problem

Salu2

Works great without any Problems at me - 3.6.3 with up to 50 other Hacks installed.

[InfoSpyware]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Works great without any Problems at me - 3.6.3 with up to 50 other Hacks installed.

mmmmmm great for you

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by InfoSpyware

mmmmmm great for you

Bad for you - so install it again and search for you Error.

[Eagle Eyes]

Show all videos link dont work!!

Plus on the forumhome, it doesn't display the videos. Only blank boxes.

Check http://www.pakistaniforces.com/forums/

[Eagle Eyes]

Originally Posted by Alpe

Hello
Thx for this mod.i have installed.
I cant see the Videos on the index bar.i have mod rewrite enabled an i have create a video.html in my forum root.The Name of the youtube is be shown on the index page but not the video.
Any idea?

Same here.

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

You should not create the video.html on your server, it should not exists for it to work!

Regarding the videos to be blank, I don't know the reason for this, it might be that they are still loading since loading goes slow sometimes.

Btw, I've updated the product and the smiley bug has been fixed!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Eagle Eyes]

I uninstalled it, since it was full of bugs.

You have fixed the similie bug. Good job!

Well i think you need good instructions for installing.

Before i install it again, i wanna make sure i am doing things right.

Import the XML product Done
Upload the attached icon images (or use your own)
Default is:
/images/editor/google.gif
/images/editor/youtube.gif Done
Open htaccess.txt, configure it (replace yourdomain with your domain), save it as .htaccess and upload it to the root of your forum Not Done
Run the included installer Have Done it before, and then uninstalled the product, should i run this again?
The installer will also upgrade previous instalations
Bug: when you run the installer more then once, multiple of the same indexes are created. I haven't found a way yet to prevent this. I have posted some messages on MySQL forums to find an answere and will then upgrade the installer. For now it is adviced to run the installer just once and for upgrades it is adviced to check the PREFIXseovideos table after upgrading to see if there are any duplicate indexes configured to remove them if needed.
To install the Videobar anywhere on the forum use the folowing code:
PHP Code:
<!-- SEO Videos Index Bar --> Shows the title and everything but with blank page. Anyways this has to be seen once i install it again.

Right now, i use the one .htaccess file which effects all the subdirectories.

Currently my .htaccess file looks like this.

## OpenSEF plain htaccess file

## Can be commented out if causes errors
Options FollowSymLinks

## mod_rewrite in use
RewriteEngine On

## If Joomla is installed in the web server root
## RewriteBase /
## If Joomla is installed in a sub-directory
## RewriteBase /directory_name_here
RewriteBase /

## Begin 3rd Party or OpenSEF Section
##
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR]   ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
##
## End 3rd Party or OpenSEF Section


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pakistaniforces\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.pakistaniforces.com/$1 [R=301,L]


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pakistaniforcesforum\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.pakistaniforcesforum.com/index.php?styleid=35/$1 [R=permanent,L]

How should i paste your .htaccess code?

By the way, Google and Youtube images from the editor are gone!! Nothing there.

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

I am currently working on Any Media 4 SEO edition, it will be better then this mod and offer the same functionality.

First thing I will change is the parsing of videos, the videos will now be played with their original player to give credit to the videohosts as you may know they are losing money so this is the least you could do to pay them and I am aspecting it is ilegal to parse the videos via a custom player.

The new AnyMedia is being tested here: http://www.publiceren.net/anymedia/s...posted=1#post2

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[transitbus]

Once again this is broken. When trying to post I get code errors and when I remove this mod I get none.

Not going to reenable this to figure it out, there are other mods that do the same thing without error.

Sorry Adult, I just don't have time to deal with all these errors


Actually my forum is now hosed when posting and I have no idea how to undo what your mod did

here is what is happening whe nI edit any post

Attachment 56292



Thisis with IE and not firefox. tell me what you changed please so I can undo it since your uninstaller now leaves remnants.

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

If you disable or remove the product and uninstall the SEO Videos fields from the Database it will be fully uninstalled. There are no other changes.

For me the inline editor works fine btw, so the bug might be due to a difrent mod.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap