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).

[hcmagix]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Well done !

Can you add Quicktime and WMA etc. to the next Update ?

btw. ?bersetzungsanfrage hab ich bereits gestellt

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

Regarding the bugs, these will be fixed but there is an other solution that I will continue the development of Any Media for vB3.6.x and making it SEO adding for example Video Indexes, Video Search and some SEO features to get your posted videos indexed in Google and other search engines (the right way, google will actualy love you for using the mod so that it is able to know what kind of videos are to be found on your forum or specific message).

Since this mod may take 100+ hours to complete, I will require a small icon to be placed on the video display screen linking to http://www.publiceren.net/ with information about the free mod (no spam etc, I am just interested in the SE value for my domain).

If enaufh users agree on this, I will start working on the mod today untill it's completed.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[transitbus]

Aside from the bugs here, this has proven to be an excellent mod. If you want to tackle such a large projects, I would be all for it and would love to help test it.

In the mean time how about some smiley fixing love

[paypal]

two thumbs up, installed and using, looking for windows media, quicktime,flash, and realvideo...now

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Hi!

Please let me know the content you use between the tags. ([googlevideo]...[/googlevideo])

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[rberardo]

When i installed it, the vbAdvanced get several javascript errors, then i uninstalled it and worked again.

Someone have this problem too?

thx

[RealRnB]

thanks ,although the videos don't show on the frontpage.

[patsalko]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Hi!

Please tell me the URL of your forum and I will have a look.

You must ofcourse rename the included htaccess.txt to .htaccess for the Mod Rewrite to work.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Let's recap here. I installed the .htaccess and still nothing.
Isnt a videos.html is supposed to exist?

[bigtime]

Where exactly is the best place to put this?

<!-- SEO Videos Index Bar -->

Thanks

[Adult SEO]

Originally Posted by patsalko

Let's recap here. I installed the .htaccess and still nothing.
Isnt a videos.html is supposed to exist?

Hi!

Mod Rewrite is an technique to enable URL rewriting on Apache. It will enable you to show for example message-1.html to the users in the browser while actualy message.php?message=1 is loaded.

videos.html will actualy load index.php?videos=1 (1 = pagenumber).

So you could also load the video index via http://www.domain.com/?videos=1

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Adult SEO]

Originally Posted by bigtime

Where exactly is the best place to put this?

<!-- SEO Videos Index Bar -->

Thanks

There is no best place considdering SEO, so you can place it anywhere you want.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap