Board Optimization - PubSubHubBub for vBulletin 4.x - Realtime Indexation of New Threads!

PubSubHubBub for vB 4.x.x

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About PubSubHubBub (PuSH):
PubSubHubBub is a new protocol for realtime indexation of webpages. It works by pushing new content to a distributed network of PuSH compatible servers, rather than relying on a crawler hitting the board to find new content.


Is it similar to Ping-o-Matic?:
Similar yes, but PuSH works in a slightly different way, and is getting some heavyweight support from big players like wordpress who have included it on every wp.com blog.


Where can I learn More about PubSubHubBub?:
Try the official google documentation for full information.
Alternatively, watch this video by google.


How do I install it?
Simple, upload the files in the upload.zip to your forum root, and import the enclosed XML in the adminCP where you would normally import products.


A Word about Copyright:
The file push.php is NOT my copyright, it is infact copyright of InternetBrands Inc (the owners of vBulletin). It is mentioned in the file itself that it is not my copyright, and it is ONLY FOR USE BY ACTIVE LICENSE HOLDERS. I am distributing this with consent of both vBulletin and InternetBrands (see the next section for more details)


The History of This Plugin:
Its a plugin I was never going to release publicly, I use it on my seo forum and was quite happy leaving it at that. I experienced a measurable increase in spider activity, and time to indexing after getting it working for the first time.

However - D.Bradley @ Internet Brands got in touch and asked me to release it for the community.

I would also like to thank Fabian Schonholz of vBulletin.com for reviewing it and allowing the re-publication of the copyrighted material within push.php
- without those two people evangelising this plugin, I would not have released it publicly.


How do I tell if its working?
Thats proving to be a bit of a problem, the only testing tool that Im aware of for PuSH hasnt been giving stable results for the last few weeks, and other PuSH clients like the ones within wordpress.com blogs are also giving inconsistant results. I am however in touch with google who are reviewing the plugin.

In the meantime, I suggest you install the plugin, and keep an eye on two factors, 1) spider activity in google webmaster tools, and 2) time to indexation of new threads (by manual checks for now). As soon as I get some joy back from them I will update this post.


Can I remove the powered by.... accreditation link?
No. Doing so invalidates the license by which I am distributing this software.

If you must use a version without the accreditation link, I am selling this plugin in a GOLD version for just ?10 over at my plugin shop: http://seoforums.org/cart.php.

Please note, if you are using the GOLD version, you still need an active vb license to download the push.php file, which is only available on this page at vb.org.


A Word About Support:
I sometimes go a few weeks or more without coming back to vb.org so the best place to get in touch is either on http://twitter.com/seoforumsorg or on http://seoforums.org - and PM me on "MOGmartin".

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Anyway, Digitalpoint Sphinx sounds interesting, but I'm just a 62 year old Fortran programmer out of the 1960's era, struggling to support our not-for-profit collectors site where the average demographic age is 60+ ..

LOL - well, Im a just a 31 year old BASIC programmer out of the commodore64/Amiga generation!

On a more serious note, Ive read the documentation that Shawn Hogan wrote up (he is "digitalpoint" here on vb.org, and owns forums.digitalpoint.com) and it looks a bit tougher than the average mod installation.

Im sure it would be relatively easy, just pretty time consuming - never having done it I dont know though sorry...

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Do you know any contractors who could quote a price for us to install and test this product?

sorry, not off the top of my head - I have a few coders I use to build bits n pieces for me, but I dont know anyone other than shawn that has installed sphinx on vB.

Having said that, if your board is huuuuuuugge..... Id give it a shot. Take a look how it works on his board, with tens of millions of posts and it works a charm.

[abdelali]

Im using vb 4.1 PL2 and i dont have any error.ive seen a jump spider activity but new threads didnt get in google faster.

Regards.I like the idea of this mod still working on it you ll get results.

[FReeSTER]

Originally Posted by MOGmartin

Hmmmmm... Crap. This is exactly the kind of error that prevented me from releasing this mod in the first place!

So, most other people dont have the problem, do you two have any other mod's installed that function at a posting level (ie. things that are triggered when a new post is submitted)?

No not that i know, at least anything related to new posting templates no.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Working (I assume) on 4.0.8

[XiTCLUB]

Originally Posted by xXxpert

Hubs (one per line) ? what to enter here?

Hubs (one per line) ? what to enter here?

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by xXxpert

Hubs (one per line) ? what to enter here?

I'll 2nd or 3rd the question. The only thing that seems to be there at this moment is

PHP Code:

http://vbulletin.superfeedr.com 


[ForenOpfer]

Originally Posted by El Intocable

No not that i know, at least anything related to new posting templates no.

Me neither :/

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by xXxpert

Hubs (one per line) ? what to enter here?

nothing. leave it as it is....

.....unless you build your own hub, then you can add that.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by MOGmartin

nothing. leave it as it is....

.....unless you build your own hub, then you can add that.

DONE

Go to superfeedr.com and register your own free account.

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

DONE

Go to superfeedr.com and register your own free account.

when I said "build your own", I really meant, install pubsubhubbub server, onto your own server - that is something I could see real value in doing, which is why the option is there!