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About Developer · **Released**: 05-24-2001

For vB 2.0

This little hackette is a quick fix to allow search engine bots to spider your threads.

Although this will allow the bots to index every thread on your site, it will not make the threads 'search engine optimized'. They will see exactly what you see when you visit your site. It simply removes the CGI bits from the URL's which prevents most search engine bots from spidering more than one level deep.

If you want a hack that allows to fully customize how the thread will look to the search engine bot, you should look at Overgrows more complete hack here.

The advantage of this hack over Overgrows is that it does not require htaccess support which can have performance issues. This could also be seen as a disadvantage though as my hack requires that you have mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache Server, whereas Overgrows method should work with just about any web host out there.

Take yer pick

tpearl5 · #**142** 02-03-2002, 12:33 AM

I just changed the link in forumdisplay_multipagenav_pagenumber

to

$bburl/t$thread[threadid]-$acurpage.html

Now I have short URL's to multi page threads

MarkB · #**143** 02-20-2002, 04:27 AM

Just installed this, and it works great - just two questions:

How can I fix it so Who's Online displays where a user is instead of Unknown Location: /forum/t15321/s7406f2d946ce71b342e89b3a9607ac99.html?

Also, would it be at all possible to hack this so, instead of www.yourdomain/forum/f13/ it has www.yourdomain.com/forum/chat/ (where "chat" is the forum title)? That'd be a huge improvement, I think

But, I have to say that - as it stands - this is great!

~DC · #**144** 03-01-2002, 11:45 AM

hmm...Im still having trouble,
my dir is www.domain.com/forums - help!

slinky · #**145** 03-01-2002, 12:58 PM

Mmmm... can't help you with a problem we don't know about! Also, your site's forums don't appear...

~DC · #**146** 03-01-2002, 10:36 PM

me? I was testing the hack and my forums are www.designerchat.net/forums

I was just using www.domain.com/forums as an example

etom · #**147** 03-02-2002, 03:12 PM

Is there a (nearly) final version of this ?

After reading ~140 posts there is nothing but confusion about problems with images and netscape and what ever ...

Does an "any browser" solution exists or not ?

greets

slinky · #**148** 03-02-2002, 03:22 PM

Many are using this without a problem, including myself.

~DC · #**149** 03-03-2002, 06:26 AM

Could you please paste your code?

slinky · #**150** 03-03-2002, 06:42 AM

The code is exactly the same as you see here.

~DC · #**151** 03-03-2002, 07:14 AM

ahh...damn

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.04863 seconds Memory Usage 2,287KB Queries Executed 25 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)modsystem_post (1)navbar (6)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (2)pagenav_pagelinkrel (11)post_thanks_box (11)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (11)post_thanks_postbit_info (10)postbit (11)postbit_onlinestatus (11)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
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