Originally posted by Velocd What is your version of this Erwin? Is it a hack that could be released, or is it integrated very deeply into your site that to prepare a hack for it would be too troublesome?
I took a quick browse through your forums Erwin, and you did a great job with the rewrite, and how it's all organized
Essentially, fastforward's hack, but applied to every page in every thread, also to memberlist, avatarlist, search pages and changed most PHP files so that sessionhash and dynamic URLs are eliminated except for latest posts etc. - too extensive to release. I don't really look forward to vB3 when I have to recode all the files again.
Though it's a little off topic...and I just want to chime in a little bit here....
I use vbportal and google spiders my site almost everyday (usually 20 robots at a time), somtimes twice a day. It doesn't list all the posts in the search engine, at one time it did but dropped a bunch, however the big pitfall is that Google uses up around one gig of my bandwidth a month. I have a small site and that is still way to high.
I may start blocking Google just because of this....just a little warning if your inviting Google.
Originally posted by indiamike Though it's a little off topic...and I just want to chime in a little bit here....
I use vbportal and google spiders my site almost everyday (usually 20 robots at a time), somtimes twice a day. It doesn't list all the posts in the search engine, at one time it did but dropped a bunch, however the big pitfall is that Google uses up around one gig of my bandwidth a month. I have a small site and that is still way to high.
I may start blocking Google just because of this....just a little warning if your inviting Google.
Cheers Anyway
Mike
Good point being made here. I can see how some people might be concerned with this. I should point out, the archive scripts i'm releasing are very, very small in size the way they come. Of course, if you add images and styles into them, then they get much bigger. But using them the way they are, the bandwidth used will be virtually un-noticable. When it comes to getting google to archive your posts, the simpler = the better
and there is no feature in it right now to block out private forums selectively. I could probably add those small features to it though
SkuZZy- This is something I need to have before using this. I only have one private forum, but it's the mod forum. Some pretty heavy stuff goes on there. I would need to block this forum.
Also, in your instructions;
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Add a link to the archive on your main forums page, otherwise google won't know it exists and therefore won't spider it!
Whats the best way to do this? Just a plain old link on forumhome? Then other members will be able to view it?
Originally posted by Smoothie SkuZZy- This is something I need to have before using this. I only have one private forum, but it's the mod forum. Some pretty heavy stuff goes on there. I would need to block this forum.
Also, in your instructions;Whats the best way to do this? Just a plain old link on forumhome? Then other members will be able to view it?
I'll see about adding something to block out private forums, shouldn't be too hard. About the link, just add a text link to it at the bottom of your forums or whatever. You don't need to do this, you could just add the site to google (http://www.google.com/addurl.html) but linking it on your site is the best and fastest way to get it spidered... plus it will inherit your "PR" which will help the pages rank higher.
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