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).

[freevisio]

ok, now works, I have solved it erasing the table 'seovideos' and the fields of 'forum' and installing again.

Thank you

Is it possible to limit the users linking the videos? at 100 post for example..

[Adult SEO]

Originally Posted by freevisio

ok, now works, I have solved it erasing the table 'seovideos' and the fields of 'forum' and installing again.

Thank you

Is it possible to limit the users linking the videos? at 100 post for example..

Hi!

No this is not possible (yet) and as I don't need it myself I don't think it will be developed soon. I want to enable users to post unlimited videos if they like.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[fourfourthree]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Yes, I've uploaded a fixed version just 5 minutes ago.

The current regex used is |^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+$|Ui wich will match any letter, number, - and _. If anyone knows of an other character used in the Video ID on YouTube just let me know and I will add it.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Thanks, Adult SEO. The second preg_match was fixed but not the first one. It's working now

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

Did you fix something yourself? If so, please let me know so that I can modify the product

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[fourfourthree]

Yeah, search for

PHP Code:

} elseif ($type=='youtube' && !preg_match('|^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$|Ui',$videoid)) { 


and change it to

PHP Code:

} elseif ($type=='youtube' && !preg_match('|^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+$|Ui',$videoid)) { 


[mahakala]

hi there,
really nice product :-)

but i got some probs: the video.html page shows me the same videobox twice or 3 times. how can i change it?

when previewing a post, the buttons for youtube/google are lost (minor problem)

thanks,
thomas

[Adult SEO]

Originally Posted by mahakala

hi there,
really nice product :-)

but i got some probs: the video.html page shows me the same videobox twice or 3 times. how can i change it?

when previewing a post, the buttons for youtube/google are lost (minor problem)

thanks,
thomas

I will now develop a simple admin for it so you can delete videos, the duplicates might be due to previous bugs in wich the videos didn't get deleted when you deleted the post.

The admin will be verry simple and ready in 20 minutes.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[abramelin]

if anyone can run this with vba, please let me know

[Adult SEO]

The admin is ready, it will add a [X] with each video on the Video Index wich enables you to delete that video, you will also be redirected back to the page you were visiting so that it's fast.

You can change the location of the adminlink via the videobit template and you can configure multiple usergroups with access to delete videos from the adminpanel.

Regarding vBa, it should be possible to add the videobar by using the code I mentioned before:

<!-- SEO Videos Index Bar -->

Let me know if that doesn't work, if not please seek support at vBadvanced and tell them you want to have a plugin from vBulletin on hook global_start to work on your vBadvanced page.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[abramelin]

can we set up the videos index bar display? i think its horizontal now . can we make it vertical and can we limit the results of the video number to show?