Major Additions - YABBSEO[vB] Lite - Another Better SEO Module for vB 3.8.x

The FULL version is available here.

YABBSEO[vB] Lite

YABBSEO[vB] is a well-developed easy-to-use lighty module for vBulletin aiming at optimizing your forum for Search Engines. This is a lite version and a full version will come with GUI for controling lots of options of YABBSEO.

Main Features:
1. Customised Forumdisplay, Showthread, Member profile url, etc...
Edit yabbseo/data/config.php:

PHP Code:

'template' => 
    array (
      'showthreadpage' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}/{thread_title}-{thread_id}-page{thread_page}.html',
      'showthread' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}/{thread_title}-{thread_id}.html',
      'showthreadnew' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}/{thread_title}-{thread_id}-newpost.html',
      'showthreadpost' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}/{thread_title}-{thread_id}-p{post_id}.html#post{post_id}',
      'forumdisplaypage' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}/index{forum_page}.html',
      'forumindex' => 'forumindex.html',
      'forumdisplay' => 'f{forum_id}-{forum_title}',
      'member' => 'members/{username}.html',
      'memberlistpage' => 'memberlists/{member_page}.html',
      'memberlistltr' => 'memberlists/{letter}.html',
      'memberlistltrpage' => 'memberlists/{letter}-{member_page}.html',
      'memberlist' => 'memberlists',
    ), 


2. Built-in Multiple languages supported. You don't need manually list the special chars to convert. Tested with Deutsch, Espa?ol, Fran?ais, T?rk?e.

3. 301 safe redirecting dynamical url to the above static url.

4. Add "no=follows" for all external site url.

5. Lots of options in yabbseo/data/config.php. For example, removing comman words in static url, customised keyword separator. Ability to create your customised url for other content.

6. Parse archive pages and redirect thread links to the static one.

7. Improve meta keywords for thread pages.

8. Canonicalization Url Support.

9. Redirect external urls by a custom script.

Lots of other improments...

Live Demo(vB3.7.1:
http://yabsoft.info/demo/vbforum

Live Site(vB 3.8.4):
https://yabsoft.com/forum

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|YABBSEO[vB] Installation Requirements
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1. Mod-rewrite Module for Apache server.
2. Entered Forum URL at vBulletin Admin CP > vBulletin Options > Site Name / URL / Contact Details.

Installing YABBSEO[vB]

1. Extracting the installation package

Download and extract the installation package into a directory in your local computer.

2. Uploading YABBSEO[vB] to the Server.

You only need upload all files in /upload to your vBulletin installation.

3. Go into vBulletin's Admin CP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products.

a). Click on 'Import Product' and select 'overwrite'.
b). Click on the 'Browse' button, and browse to the location where YABBSEO[vB]'s installation package was extracted.
c). Find a file named Product-YABBSEOLite-1.0.xml in the root directory YABBSEO[vB].
d). Click on 'Import'.

4. Uploading the .htaccess file

If your server does not have a .htaccess file in its root, then upload the .htaccess file found in the YABBSEO[vB]'s installation package.

If your server already has a .htaccess file in its root of vBulletin installation, then the content of YABBSEO[vB]'s .htaccess will have to be merged into the main .htaccess file.

Versions:
YABBSEO[vB] Lite v1.1.0 At 01 Nov 2009
YABBSEO[vB] Lite v1.0.1 At 15 Feb 2009
YABBSEO[vB] Lite v1.0.0 At 05 Feb 2009

Updates of YABBSEO v1.1: Latest version!
Please see the following post with detailed directions and explanations of yabbseo/data/config.php.

Updates of YABBSEO v1.0.1:
1. Now YABBSEO supports mysqli connection.
2. Fix a serious bug that cause script not to parse the external url correctly.
3. Adding a miss hook in v1.0.0 for search members to redirect to the correct profile url.
4. Adding some HTML tags parsing to correct some images not showing.
5. Fixing some redirecting error reported by members here.
6. Fix a bug for parsing the birthday members profile url in the front page of forum.

How to update your installation of YABBSEO v1.0.1:
Untill now, you only need redownload the attachment to update the php scripts files and then reimporting the product XML file. BUT you must be careful if you have modified the file yabbseo/data/config.php. When you upload new scripts, please don't overwrite your customised config.php. And a backup of old installation is recommended when you make any updates on current installation.

Some previous installation may not include such TAG parsings in yabbseo/data/config.php, if yes, you need add them manually(suppose you don't want to overwrite config.php directly)

PHP Code:

'import' =>
    array (
      0 => '\\@',
      1 => 'url',
      2 => '\\(',
      3 => '\\"',
      4 => '1',
    ),
    'image:' =>
    array (
      0 => 'background\\-',
      1 => 'url',
      2 => '\\(',
      3 => '\\>',
      4 => '1',
    ), 


The previous installation miss a hook called "Search members" at Plugins & Products>Plugin Manager, if you don't want to reimport the product XML file, you can add this hook as follows:
Plugins & Products>Add New Plugin
Product:

YABBSEO[vB]

Hook Location:

member_start

Title:

Search members

Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

include 'yabbseo/forumhook/match_member.php'; 


Support
We provide tech support for the lite version via vB.org forum. If you have any questions, just reply this thread or PM me.

Click INSTALL if you like this plug-in.

[conankid]

Database error when access /album.php?albumid=xxxxx Can you help me?

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hey man, thanks a lot for your help :up: :up:

Originally Posted by shabbir4it

Hi,

There is an sql syntax error in your plugin in yabbseo/sitemap.func.php, You can notice the extra comma the query.
Line:288

PHP Code:

$albums = $db->query_read("
        SELECT album.userid,,album.title,album.albumid
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "album AS album
        WHERE album.albumid in ($albumids)
        "); 


Regards,
Syed

[final kaoss]

that worked, thanks. And for the lazy just upload this file to forum/yabbseo directory.

[ConsoleShark]

Error: Messes up copyright , Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. becomes Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO v1.1. Also Yep, album.php creating an abulm give you a database error.

[final kaoss]

nothing like that happened to me and the album error is gone.

[ConsoleShark]

extreme-gaming the file you uploading fixed the error in the albums, however it still messes up the copyright Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. becomes Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO v1.1

[final kaoss]

????????? Not on my end... All I did to that file was remove the extra comma (which was the recommended fix a few posts ago) and upload it for the lazy here. I don't see how that can affect the copyright that you mention, it certainly hasn't done that to me, you should check your plugins to make sure one of those aren't doing it.

Also I have a request for the addon author. I notice that when I highlight a thread & view souce in firefox the "id" has no seo... is there anyway you can make the id say the actual name of the thread instead of "thread_title_139"

<a href="http://vgchat.info/forum/f38-super-nintendo-game-genie-codes-and-pro-action-replay-codes/aaahh-real-monsters-game-genie-codes-139.html" id="thread_title_139">AAAHH! Real Monsters Game Genie Codes</a>

[christon26]

Originally Posted by ConsoleShark

extreme-gaming the file you uploading fixed the error in the albums, however it still messes up the copyright Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. becomes Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO v1.1

Line 465 in yabbseo/forumhook/parse_output.php makes those changes, basically it 'tells' the script to replace Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd with the yabbseo copyright:

$output = str_replace(strpos($output,'<!--YABBSEO_COPYRIGHT-->')===false ? "Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd" : "<!--YABBSEO_COPYRIGHT-->",

Simply replace the following lines:

# copyright information
$copyrights = array(
1=>'<a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Search Engine Friendly URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
2=>'<a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
3=>'<a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Search Engine Optimization by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
4=>'<a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">SEO by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
5=>'Search Engine Friendly URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
6=>'Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
7=>'Search Engine Optimization by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
8=>'SEO by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
);

With:

# copyright information
$copyrights = array(
1=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br /><a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Search Engine Friendly URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
2=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br /><a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
3=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br /><a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">Search Engine Optimization by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
4=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br /><a href="http://yabsoft.com" target="blank">SEO by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.'</a>',
5=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br />Search Engine Friendly URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
6=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br />Content Relevant URLs by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
7=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br />Search Engine Optimization by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
8=>'Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd<br />SEO by YABBSEO '.YABBSEO_VER.' ?2005, YABSoft.com',
);

And that will fix it plus put the seo copyright down on the next line

[final kaoss]

What I meant by this was the search result could show like
http://vgchat.info/forum/search.php?...er&u=tautvys92
instead of
http://vgchat.info/forum/search.php?do=finduser&u=73

Originally Posted by yabsoft

I donot know your issue, but http://vgchat.info/forum/search.php?do=finduser&u=73 shows fine, I think.

[Deadsy]

We installed it on our testforum, but let me get this straight. If I want to do some changes, I've to edit the config.php or is there any controlpanel?