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.

[Javazoid]

ok. is www.wcgateway.com/forums all set?

the archives are at wcgateway.com/forums/archive

the url i submitted a while ago was

http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive

should i submit again or just wait

[Guidster]

Originally posted by Javazoid
same.. how do you even know you have been indexed. i may have been but im not sure!

Check your logs. Parse for googlebot or if you want to see more, a good clue that spiders are about is a request for robots.txt. Right after the request for this file, you will most likely see a spider there.

The Google Dance site also features a Google tracking Perl application that I have yet to install, but this is a possible resource for you as well.

[kuska]

With the last dance i did not get indexed. Mabye i installed it and subbmited it to late, but i had spiders for 5 days in a row in my forums. No indexing tho

[kuska]

Mabye im doing something wrong? Take a look,
Here is the addy to the archive hack ....
http://www.nakazdytemat.com/forum

[julius]

Originally posted by 99SIVTEC
By adding the following lines of code to index.php you can gzip the output of this hack making it use far less bandwidth when users view it. Best of all the search engines can still spyder gzipped pages.

PHP Code:

<?php
global $nozip;
$nozip=1;
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

Just cut and paste that into the very top of the index.php file i nthe archive directory

My vb is zipped with zlib. Is it possible to gzip the archive in the same way?

[SkuZZy]

Originally posted by kuska
Mabye im doing something wrong? Take a look,
Here is the addy to the archive hack ....
http://www.nakazdytemat.com/forum

Nope it looks fine. You all really need to give google some patience. Just because google spiders your site, doesn't mean your pages will be added.

For example, if you put your archive up on the 23rd, got spidered on the 24th, then google danced on the 25th, there is no way in hell your site would get listed. It's just how google works. Usually it takes 2 dances to get listed. The first dance to spider your site, and the 2nd dance to get listed.

Bottom line, if you had your archive up before Febuary 5th and you were spidered by google before Febuary 5th, then you will get listed in google in the upcoming dance. Anything after Febuary 5th..... no guarentees.

[cklaszlo]

any word on when the dance will take place?

[Steve_S]

Thank you. Great work you guys

Question: freshbot hit my Archive yesterday and all is well. I'm searching for a browser based "stats/logger" which records freshie and the deep crawl.

I tried www.darrinward.com/googletrax/ and inserted the following in the footer but it's not working:

include 'http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/vb_counter/googletrax.cgi';

I know I can do this with logs but any help on some code and exactly where to put it would be great?


Edit: I also found the following script but have not installed it. Anyone got it running with this hack and perhaps where you stuck the include? :

http://www.googlestats.com/english/

My guess: The "dance" will start 3/3/03

[SkuZZy]

Just a shout to everyone..... the dance hasnt started yet. I dunno what the hold up is. Should happen really soon though. I can't imagine it not happening within' the next couple of days. I will post here when it starts!

[FlyBoy73]

Skuzzy,
Could that also have an effect on when our new results show up on google? We got ours installed before the Jan/Feb dance and still don't see any new results.
Thanks,
David