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!

[grooveh]

bump. :rambo:

[Shepski]

I have installed this hack. its seems to run but all i get is the forums displayed. if i click on any link it does not display the threads underneath.

http://www.dvd-swaps.co.uk/dvd2001/dvdforums/archive/

index.php code as follows (its on an nt server)

$privateForums="|17|12|"; // Hidden forumids, enclosed by | pipes
$firstPost="09/12/2001"; // MM/DD/YYYY of your forum's first post
$spacer="  "; // The characters or spaces to use as one indent
$forumURL="/dvd2001/dvdforums"; // Base URL of your forum
$refresh=0; // Change this to 1 if you want the archive to automatically
			// forward the user if they come in from a search engine.
			// This option is initially turned off because Google considers
			// this to be 'cloaking.'

Is it crucial that i have my first post date correct? how do i find it? i have upgraded recently from xmb and things are a bit cocked up.

[Shepski]

double post!!

[Shepski]

anyone help?

[grooveh]

Shepski: It seems that overgrow and anyone that knows about this hack arent around right now. I posted a question too, and still havent heard from anyone. ITs too bad. It is a good and useful hack. I'd really like to be able to use it.

[Shepski]

Originally posted by JohnL
THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU

OK all you IIS guys. Thanks to Razzie...

Do a search for REQUEST_URI and replace it with QUERY_STRING and you are good to go!



Thanks again Razzie

Forget my orginal question...the above sorted my problem out thanks to all involved

[Learner29]

Originally posted by Learner29 who is feeling so terrible about nobody caring to help him a bit...
oh. I am sorry to bother but I really tried to find by myself but could not !!

I installed the hack and the index.php page of the /vb/archive directory is displaying nicely.

Yet all the links on this index.php page point toward non-existent folders!!!

example

http://www.mydomain.com/vb/archive/29
and
http://www.mydomain.com/vb/archive/13

but checking that archive folder by FTP, there are NO Folders called 13 or 29 ....

I am so frustrated as I DID install this hack in the past and it worked nicely then.....

Whoever would help, I would be more than grateful and thankful.

[FFMania]

Hmm...edit the path variables inside index.php :P
It works great for me.... *clicks install*

[Learner29]

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Hmm...edit the path variables inside index.php :P
It works great for me.... *clicks install*
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Thank you ; I will let you know if this works.

[Ninth Dimension]

Installed and working fine on 2.2.6