vB Easy Archive FINAL - Search Engine Spiderable Hack! Get your posts listed @ google

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[high]HOW GOOD DOES THIS HACK WORK??? >>> [/high]Over 29,000 pages spidered since January 1st!!!!!!! Visit http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+SkuZZy+Xenon to see all the pages this script has helped get spidered into google!

Sub-Forums have been added!

Final Version Released - February 10th

I added sub-forums in this final version, one of the most requested features to be added... but, sad to say... this will be the final version. I never got a chance to add some of the cool features I said, but I feel this archive has served it's purpose and hopefully will continue to do so for all the die hard users who stick with vb 2.2.9. I decided to make this the final version because vb3 is coming out soon and I think this archive is the best archive currently out. Sure, there are more flashy ones, but this one gets the job done and gets results. Hopefully this hack will live on for a while.
Edit by Xenon: Whenever there is a problem, i'll take a look at it, and perhaps add a feature or two

About this hack

This hack will help get all your threads listed in google and other search engines and get your threads easily spidered! It works by creating an archive and turning all your posts into .html format. It doesn't actually create the .html files though, but google thinks they are real! It uses mod_Rewrite. If you don't have mod_Rewrite, you can't use the scripts (sorry).

What does it do?

The purpose of this hack are to get your keywords from your forums listed in google and get people visiting them! Since these are all pure text and don't use tables or excess font tags, they are very friendly on bandwidth! This will display all your files in a nice text format that google will absolutely love! Visit the online demo below to see it in action!

Online Demos

To view a demo of this script, visit some of the "live" demos at the following sites:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archives
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/
http://www.truecountry.com/forums/history/
http://www.strategy-forum.de/easy_archive/index.php
http://www.pimprig.com/forums/archive/
http://www.jokersrewards.com/forum/history/
http://board.midibuddy.net/archive2/
http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/forums/archive/
http://www.macfora.com/forums/archive/
http://www.rcgroups.com/archive/
http://www.codewebs.com/forums/archive/
http://www.lcdmod.com/forums/archive/
http://www.source-forums.org/vB/archive/
http://www.subduck.com/history/
http://www.thesistersthree.com/archive/
http://www.a51forums.com/archive/
http://www.yes-its-free.com/easyarchive/
http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive
http://www.toyotaimportsforum.co.uk/forum/archive/
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/
http://www.gamesites200.com/archive/
http://www.allthingsmoto.com/archive
http://www.2spoemas.com/foros/archive/
http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/

Requirements

Apache
vBulletin 2.x
mod_mime installed
.htaccess
5 minutes of your time...


Known Problems/Confusion

Mod_mime - You will NEED mod_mime to run these scripts. Mod_mime is a free module which enables a directive called "ForceType". This allows you to use the .htaccess file included to force your files into php mode, which allows simple URL's, without .php in them. If you can see the front page of your archive, but get an error page when you click on any links then this is your problem. To fix it, you will need to install mod_mime, or ask your host to do it. It's a FREE module. For more information, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html

Private forums - Private forums are NOT shown and they will NOT be spidered. Some people say the private forums show up, that is because you are logged in as the admin and the archive uses permissions. So anyone who has permission to view the private forums on your forums, will beable to view them on the archives also. But if you log out of your account OR log into an account that doesn't have access to them, then you won't beable to view them

Credits

Biggest credit goes to Xenon who originally coded the scripts. He is the man! Also thanks to everyone who tested it out for me and kept bugging me about releasing it (when I was too lazy to).

Agreement

By using these scripts & installing them, you agree to leave the small (virtually unnoticable) copyright text and links at the bottom of all pages. You also agree to leave jelsoft's copyright there as well. You can modify the scripts much as you want, but this portion must remain intact (links must stay) and visible. This is all we ask

Download Final

To install, just download the file below and open the "_readme.txt" file. All is explained there. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. If you have problems with this script, post them in this thread and I will try and get around to answering them.

[cklaszlo]

Results 1 - 10 of about 19,900. Search took 0.28 seconds



In the latest update the only way for me to get it working was to add .php after "topic" and "forum" other then that it works great.

[Xenon]

have uploaded a new version
it has minor optimations to get the url (wouldn't affect the script, but jic)

also the copyrightnotice i've taken out from the scripts and add em into the footer.php

also the official vb copyright is now there

[cklaszlo]

help. For some reason everything just became centered. How do I correct this?

http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/

Thanks

[Xenon]

at first please update to the current version, you don't have the copyright of jelsoft in the old one you use...

and then check if you have an unclosed <center> tag in your header file

[cklaszlo]

My bad. thanks. found the mistake. i will upgrade ASAP.

[SkuZZy]

As mentioned above, xenon made some changes to the hack and once again updated the .zip file. Everyone should upgrade, as it includes some code modifications and also the ever important vbulletin copyright.

[FrankR310]

Thank you!!!

....THANK YOU!!!

[cklaszlo]

Google went live with ww2 !!!!

Our results range between 19,900 and 20,300.

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SkuZZy, Xenon or anyone else:

I was wondering if you or someone else can help us create a similar script for our Roller Coaster and Amusement Park database. we have over 1600 roller coasters and 500 Amusement parks listed in our Database and not one page is listed in Google. It would be great to get all those pages listed too.

Coasters: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/index.p...nc=allcoasters

Amusement parks: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/index.p...&func=allparks

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Thanks for this great hack. I see loads of people now viewing the archive (look at online.php). I guess they are getting there from searches on google. Question, we've all put on pop-up ads on the archive pages. but if users from google are getting to those do you think the pop-ups are more of a deterrent?

[Xenon]

cklaszlo: your links are not working...
but i think it should also be possible to write a quite similar script for these links, too.
but i don't have the time for it these time...

your popups are really annoying in my opinion
the archive is there to give a short plain overview of your board and a lot of popups and so on just lead to leave the page..

[cklaszlo]

Fixed the links. Thanks.

The reason I asked about the pop-ups was because of SkuZZy's post:

Making Money with the archive

I've recentely been using a great pop-up windows script that works great. They pay on time and pay $5.00 per 1000 unique visitors you send. It's monthly unique, but since most of the traffic coming to your forum is from search engines, you will make big bucks of it. I am currently making around $10 a day.

I removed most of the pop-ups and now only use a pop under. I agree about pop-ups. We have gone 100% pop-up free in the rest of the site except for the archive. But now I'm finding the bulk of new traffic is comming via Google.

Thanks for at least looking at our coaster/and park DB. Maybe someone else can help us and tack a crack at it.