vbSpiderFriend - Search Engine Friendliness

I am tired of my 200,000 posts not being listed in Google. I was inspired by phpbuilder.com this morning and I wrote:

vbSpiderFriend - the search engine indexer for all of your posts

Purpose: Allow search engine spiders to crawl a linked list of all of your posts.

Project Requirements:

-Friendly URLs (no query strings)
-Good dynamic meta tags
-Never have to touch the script again.. It is Y3K compliant, simply re-submit to the engines to update your listings

Install Requirements:

-vBulletin 1.x or 2.x
-about 10 minutes


1) Download the attached Zip.

2) Open class.mysql.php and put your database login info at the top.

3) Create a new directory called archive under your forum, like /forum/archive

4) Open the included .htaccess and change the Error 404 to your new archive path.

5) Open index.php and change the self-explanatory variables at the top of the file.

6) Upload all 3 files to your archive directory.

7) Submit /forum/archive/index.php to search engines and watch em crawl


DISCLAIMER: I don't use 2.x but I checked the schema and this should work fine.

NOTES: This uses ErrorDocument and query string parsing to get the variables needed. I do not have the time or energy to troubleshoot this if it does not work on your server. Sorry!

[Overgrow]

Cyrus, OK here is your problem.. your VB has the month/day reversed from standard American time hehe...

Find:

PHP Code:

$month=$urlArray[($a+3)];
$week=$urlArray[($a+4)]; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$week=$urlArray[($a+3)];
$month=$urlArray[($a+4)]; 


That's the easy fix. It won't have the dates right on the top of some of the pages but it won't affect the spider.

(removed a stupid question here)

[cyrus]

hi overgrow,

i made that fix, but i get the same problem

what shallI do now

[Overgrow]

Uhh Cyrus? It does work sometimes...


http://www.t-hood.com/archive/2/2001/02/3

http://www.t-hood.com/archive/2/2001/04/2

http://www.t-hood.com/archive/9/2001/03/3


Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. The reason you have problems is because your date format is not the one the program was intended to work with.. since it reads the date from the query, it is touchy about how it's formatted.

Here is a great chance to learn PHP and figure out how to fix it. Otherwise I would need FTP access to your site so I can try new scripts, there is no other way for me to troubleshoot it.. (besides switching my vb over to the other format but mine is a bit busy to be doing that with)

[Overgrow]

robert, I just looked over the class and it seems like it should work. I'm sorry I wrote it using my personal mysql class file instead of just including VB's.. but at the time I didn't have a copy of 2.0 handy and I didn't want to write to 1.x in case it had changed.

Having said all that, I don't see a problem.. I would re-download the latest version, and type in the info again.. Otherwise it would not be difficult to remove my class stuff and just use VB's if you wanted to edit the script.

[cyrus]

Hi Overgrow,

I know wat u mean.

But seeing the dates arent correct, can I revert the dates to the what they should be ?? Will it work fine then ?? I do not mind doing that, its fine with me

[Overgrow]

No guarantee, but it's a good bet!

[krohn]

<a href="http://www.forumoc.com/archive/" target="_blank">http://www.forumoc.com/archive/</a>

not working here either...

.htaccess looks like this
ErrorDocument 404 /home/web/forumoc.com/archive/index.php

@krohn try:
ErrorDocument 404 /archive/index.php

here is the man-page for apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/cor...#errordocument


But on my site it doesn't work either... maybe there is a switch somewhere in httpd.conf to enable customized error-pages globally...

Nice hack!!!
Congrats
I love it!