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).

[manica]

No i have the install script runs manualy and now the tables in the DB
But i have settings videos on the mainpage but there are no videos to see
And can you tell me the link to the videoindex to link it in the navbar?
And i have no buttons like googlevideo and youtube.

[bplinson]

How do I set up the .htaccess file? My domain is xlforum.net

[psico]

Adult SEO, this plugin is not ready for a big board...any plugin that parse the text in every post, every time that a user or a guest is viewing a thread is a killer CPU hack...

I think that the solution to this is to parse the text only one time when the thread is created or something like that or just forget to gain popularity with this plugin

I've made some test with my board with more that 2500 users online, I have 4 webservers and 2 DB servers and when I enabled this plugin the load went from 1.5 to 10.5 in minutes... I disabled it and everything goes to normal again.

See ya.

Psico.

[chrisife]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

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

Hi Adult SEO,
I installed the mod without problems. But when I point my browser to http://www.nollywoodforum.com/forums.php?videos=1 , I get thumbnails without images. How can I correct this?

[Adult SEO]

<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">

PHP Code:

<object width="255" height="207" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/0">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <em></em>
   </object> 


Hi!

It seems the Video ID isn't recognized. However, this mod is not worked on anymore. I've started the development of vBMedia Player wich will be completed by a professional programmer within a few weeks.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[premsuthan]

THankyou .its working great

[chrisife]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">

PHP Code:

<object width="255" height="207" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/0">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <em></em>
   </object> 


Hi!

It seems the Video ID isn't recognized. However, this mod is not worked on anymore. I've started the development of vBMedia Player wich will be completed by a professional programmer within a few weeks.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Adult SEO,
It is showing great in the forums. Eg. http://www.nollywoodforum.com/naija-...ction-476.html , but when i go to the video bar index, it doesnt show anything. DO I need to wait for AnyMedia or is there a remedy to this?

[jaghadiuno]

Hi, Can I install this mod on my forum? I am using version 3.6.4 running on Microsoft IIS 6.0. This is what Ive been looking for . Thanks.

[manuelsechi]

hi all

inserting videos works as well but i'm unable to see any video in the toolbar...

any suggestion?

toolbar in here


brgds
Manuel

[ZiG]

this was working great but i could not get the video page to work at all

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
#RewriteBase /

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ready-up\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ready-up.com/main$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^videos\.html&page=([0-9]+)$ http://www.ready-up.com/main/community/videos-page$1.html [L,R=301]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^videos\.html$ index.php?videos=1 [L]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^videos-page([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?videos=$1 [L]

thats my htaccess, could you help me add the mod_rewrite necessary for the video page to work to what i have already?

i was able to view the page by going directly to it (index.php?videos=1) but the videos on that page were coming up black and not loading, as well as the mod_rewrite did not work so I could not click anything.

also, I use VBA and the side bar was really messing that page up. How would I go about disabling the side bar for that video page if it isn't an actual page and is generated through mod_rewrite?